FROM DENTON SALLE:  Stand Against the Dark: Book 4 of the Avatar Wizard.

“Many have died trying this, lad. The Elder Powers are neither gentle nor kindly.”

With those words from his teacher, Jeremy began the ritual to bargain with one of the Powers of the World. He could gain much or lose everything as the Dark again endangers those he loves. But first he must survive bargaining with the Lord of Storms and Winter, who brings the cold from between the stars.

Return again to the world of the volkh, where Elder Powers hunt the river of stars, where women walk the path of shadows, where cities fall prey to strange diseases. A world where power comes from either the Dark or the Light. Join Jeremy, Galena, and their friends as stand against the Dark’s return.

Book 4 of the Avatar Wizard continues Jeremy’s adventures in a world where magic works and folklore of Eastern Europe is true.

ANTIVIRAL DRUGS FOR COVID? WHAT AN AMAZING INNOVATION:   White House making COVID antiviral drug more available at test sites.

It’s almost like Covid-19 is a normal virus that acts like a normal virus.

POLITICAL OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES:  Texas TV station cuts away from Jimmy Kimmel monologue blasting GOP, NRA.

ELON MUSK TAKES ANOTHER REDPILL:  Elon Musk reveals stance on gun control, 2nd Amendment after Texas school shooting.

He’s not fully acculturated yet, but it’s getting there:

“I strongly believe that the right to bear arms is an important safeguard against potential tyranny of government. Historically, maintaining their power over the people is why those in power did not allow public ownership of guns,” Musk told the outlet.

THE WOKE CORRUPT ALL THEY TOUCH:  If You’re the Right Race, Your Doctor Will See You Now.

AS EVERYTHING THEY DO IT’S RACISM UNDER COVER OF ANTI-RACISM:  How Biden’s Menthol Ban Endangers Black Bodies.

THIS ONE WE’LL NEED MORE THAN 72 HOURS:  On that report that police in Uvalde were just standing around.

I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Top Medical Group Scrubs Discredited Information Used To Push Late-Term Abortion.

THIS IS PERHAPS ACTUAL TREASON-TREASON:  Disclosed: How Obama Administration Officials Conducted Shadow Diplomacy With Iran To Undermine Trump.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Biden shooting blanks (again).

WHAT IF GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE IS: As Good As It Gets.

MAMA MIA, HERE WE GO AGAIN:  Mortage Crisis Here We Come – Do Dah, Do Dah.

THE LITTLE, UNSPEAKABLY VAPID MAN WHO WASN’T THERE:  Obama: George Floyd More Important Than Uvalde Children.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Combination of Fentanyl-Laced Pills and Social Media Proving Toxic to American Teens.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DO:  Politifact Runs Interference for Stacey Abrams After Revisiting Issue of MLB Pulling All-Star Game.

UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES:  Congressional Budget Office: Inflation Will Continue Into 2023.

FROM HENRY VOGEL:  The Hostage in Hiding

In a family full of heroes, Nora Connaught is the normal one. She’s never fought space pirates. Never saved anyone’s life. Never done anything remotely heroic.

Now she’s 18, and going off to college on another planet. Nora hopes she’ll finally get to live a normal life.

But life never goes as expected.

After pirates hijack the starliner she is traveling on, putting thousands of lives at risk, Nora must live up to the Connaught name.

Can she cast her own heroic shadow?

SO THAT’S WHY THEY’RE TRYING TO STARVE BABIES, IS IT?  US birth rates increased in 2021 for the first time in 7 years.

Can’t allow a bunch of new Americans, can they?

CLIMATE CHANGE, IS THERE ANY THING IT CAN’T DO?  Climate change might be keeping you from a good night’s sleep, study finds.

You know the problem with all these imaginary entities is that authors always end up giving them too many powers, until they become utterly unbelievable.

GOOD:  Pushback: Navy loses in attempt to fire officer who refused COVID shots.

THESE ARE THE REGIMES THAT DEMOCRATS ADMIRE:  Xinjiang Police Hack Reveals Horrors of Uyghur Camps.

WHOEVER IS PUPPETEERING BIDEN IS NOT TERRIBLY BRIGHT:  Biden Didn’t See Afghanstan Withdrawal Cockup Coming.

DUH:  Mental Health Issues Are Not “Bullsh*t”.

IT’S THE AUTHORITARIANS OR HUMANITY:  Why any flavor of authoritarianism must be destroyed.

#teamhumans

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  European Parliament Rejects Discussion on Christian Persecution.