IT WAS ALL FOR SHOW. A POOR SHOW:  Buttigieg East Palestine Visit: No Cameras! No Questions!

SOCIALISTS GOT HOLD OF IT. IF THEY RAN THE DESERT THEY’D RUN OUT OF SAND:  How did modern sex get so unsexy?

NEWS YOU MIGHT VERY WELL HAVE TO USE:  Where to get legal help if you have been illegally blacklisted.

AS ANYONE WHO SHOPS KNOWS:  Despite White House rhetoric, inflation still rising.

CALLOUS INDIFFERENCE TO REAL SUFFERING: Is not a good look for medical doctors.

And by the way, no it wasn’t three months for most people. In Colorado we weren’t back to normal in late 2021 when I left.

FROM NATHAN BRINDLE:  The Lion of God.

#CommissionEarned

John Wolff has been handed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Again.
He’s already saved the love of his life from an early death – thirty years after she died.
Now, a beautiful young woman, who is clearly his daughter, has appeared from the timeline branch where that same love of his life survived and married his counterpart.
She says they need his help fighting off invaders from the far future. Who, by the way, are looking for him. Why? Because they want the starship drive he and a friend invented, the precursor to their time machine. Problem is, in her timeline, it hasn’t been invented yet.
What man can resist a cry for help from his own daughter?
Particularly when the invaders think she’s a saint. Or possibly, a devil wearing saint’s clothing. And they’re looking for her, too.
Thus begins the Timelines Saga, and the story of the Lion of God.

SQUID THAT LARGE MUST BE SMART:  Rare giant Pacific octopus spotted swimming in Oregon tide pool.

He’s probably there on purpose. I for one welcome our new cephalopod overlords.

APPARENTLY THEY’VE TALKED TO LAWYERS. On to plan b. Plan c to follow:  Meghan Markle, Prince Harry label ‘South Park’ ‘boring and baseless’ after biting episode.

“Boring and baseless” just means they represented the couple accurately.

PEOPLE IN HELL WANT ICE-WATER, TOO:   Amazon workers want CEO to ‘immediately cancel’ return-to-office plan.

That said, companies pulling this nonsense are losing their best workers. Predictably. And Amazon apparently, unlike Musk, is looking to take out the useful.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.  A WELL-EDUCATED POPULACE IS ANATHEMA TO THE PROGRESSIVE AGENDA:  Resisting the growth of charter schools is racist, supporters claim.

IS IT CALLED “RAGGEDY ANDY’S UGLY SISTER SPEAKS?”:  Former Biden WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki Getting Her Own MSNBC Show.

To be fair, it’s better than the talking mop who is press secretary now.

SHADDUP – IT’S JUST A COINCIDENCE:  Birth Rates Plunge in Heavily Vaccinated Countries.

What kind of monsters would want to plunge human population like that? Don’t answer that. they’re proud of it.

…. as much as they hate humanity, are we sure they’re not space aliens?

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  California Budget Deficit is Even Worse than Gov. Newsom Initially Projected.

ON ACCOUNT OF BEING A HUMAN BEING:  Trump Brings Pallets of Food, Cleaning Supplies, and Trump Water to Ohio Disaster Site.

GOOD:  Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Reveals ‘Overhaul’ for Education, Banning CRT and Offering School Choice.

IMAGINE THEIR JOY. LIKE THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TOXIC GARBAGE!  East Palestine Will FINALLY Get A Buttigieg Visit.

NOT ENOUGH. NOT NEARLY ENOUGH:  NYT Opinion Admits Mask Mandates Were Useless.

They condemned those of us with asthma to being under absolute house arrest and no ability to even see our doctors. No sale. This is my opinion on forgiving them.

IT WAS PRE-TANKED. IT’S ANOTHER WITCH HUNT:  Georgia Jury Leak By Giggly Forewoman Could Tank Trump Prosecution.

ALL OF THESE “BEST OF” LISTS FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT ARE PISSING DOWN OUR BACK AND TELLING US IT’S RAINING:  The establishment’s erasure of JK Rowling and other pulp fiction rebels is just the start.

Look, these people don’t seem to know what pulp is. Robert A. Heinlein wasn’t pulp, nor were a lot of the other decent science fiction writers. I didn’t come of age in the time of Pulps because I’m not 100 years old.  And there was a lot of leftism in the science fiction I grew up with. But now? Now they’re publishing English majors who are nearly unreadable and can only harp on their imagined victimhood. No one reads that. No one wants to read that. A few idiots might buy it and leave it around to signal they’re “right thinking” leftists and oh, so sensitive, but even they don’t read it.

And the establishment is despairing of their demands that we genuflect being obeyed. So they write “best of” lists even they don’t believe in, and whistle past the graveyard.

KIND OF LIKE THEIR VIOLENCE IS SPEECH AND OUR SPEECH IS VIOLENCE:  It’s only stochastic terrorism when the right does it.

THE LEFT HAS THIS PROBLEM WITH A LOT OF BOOKS:  Harrison Bergeron was a warning, not an instruction manual.

1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, maybe even A Canticle for Leibowitz the way they’re looking for a nuclear war.

THEY WISH IT WOULD BECOME THE NEW NORMAL; I DON’T THINK IT PLAYS THAT WAY:  The new normal: persecuting an expert witness because he testified for the defense in a political-charged trial.

WELL, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SCHOOL IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GRAFT:  Morris County schools super allegedly misused federal funds, audit finds.

FROM MARGARET BALL:  Shadow of the Crescent.

#COMMISSIONEARNED

Twenty-seven years after the fall of Constantinople…Caterina, Countess of San Florian, keeps a book of important things she’s learned, from poison antidotes to cosmetic recipes, from charms for toothache to ways of raising and commanding demons. Having a reasonable care for her soul, she has never actually tried demonic magic. Yet.Gian, captain of her personal guard, has an innate magical talent that does not rely on incantations, but warns him of danger and awakens him to opportunities. It makes him nervous.And Sultan Mehmed II wants one last great victory. San Florian would be an excellent base of operations for his army to attack Venice.On the run from Venice to Constantinople after the Turkish-aided takeover of San Florian, Gian and Caterina will need all their wits and every scrap of magic they can employ to escape, to survive, and to recapture their city.

THEY TALK SUING BUT I DOUBT THEY’VE A CHANCE AT ANYTHING BUT LOOKING EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS:   Meghan Markle ‘upset and overwhelmed’ by ‘South Park’ episode: report.