FALLING APART WOULD MEAN SHE WAS EVER HELD TOGETHER:  AOC Falls Apart on the World Stage When Asked a Simple Foreign Policy Question at Munich Security Conference (VIDEO).

FANTASIES AND INSANITY, BUT SOME OF THEM WILL ACTUALLY HURT PEOPLE:  Teen Allegedly Plotted To Behead ICE Agents, Show Them Off To Indian Tribes.

YES:  Brown paper and string.  Is life cheap in Portugal?

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Duffy cracks down on trucking carriers and ‘sham school’ linked to Indiana crash caused by illegal immigrant.

CHASER:  Duffy Closes 7,500 CDL Schools in ‘Wild West’ Crackdown. DOT Highlights First-Year Results to Remove Unqualified Truck Drivers.

YES, PLEASE:  Conspiracies.  Stop making every-day evil sexy.

MY BOOK IN THE SALE WILL STAY ON SALE TILL THE WEE HOURS OF WEDNESDAY*:   The 2026 Spring Based Book Sale!  Runs Now Through Tuesday February 17, 2026.

Lots of free and 99c books by people who don’t hate your guts, though. I don’t require you not to read authors who hate you. We all have weaknesses. But give those of us on your side a chance.

*I’ll change it at midnight, but it’s not KU so it won’t change immediately.

IT’S OUT, IT’S OUT:  Done With Mirrors: A Collection of Short Stories (Sarah A. Hoyt’s Short Story Collections).

IF YOU MISSED THIS ONE, IT’S NICE, AND A REAL STORY:  Ring and Innocence. It’s for the best Sauron didn’t get ahold of this one.

OH, FOR THE LOVE OF BOB. WE HAD ONE OF THESE WHEN THE KIDS WERE IN SCHOOL:  Catching Up.

Because it’s much cheaper to slice a piece of roastbeef into cold cuts for the two hollow-legged teens than to buy cold cuts, that’s why.

LIES, DAMN LIES AND WEATHER STATISTICS:  The climate scaremongers: BBC reports about January rainfall are awash with lies.

THEY JUS’ CAIN’T HE’P THEMSELVES:  House Dem Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About the DHS Funding Fight.

HOW DARE THEY DENY THE LEFT THEIR MARTYR?  Georgia Is Trying to Prevent a ‘Renee Good’ Situation in the State. It Will Make Libs Go Bananas.

HE AIN’T AFRAID O’ NO GERMS – AND HE AIN’T IMPRESSED BY BUREAUCRATIC ‘EXPERTS’:  RFK Revealed Why He Wasn’t Scared of COVID…It Was a Legendary Answer.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED, BEHOLD MY OH SO SHOCKED FACE:  Alleged NYC Antisemitic Stabbing Suspect Out on Bail as Incidents Rise 182% Under Mamdani.

GO READ WHAT THE MAN SAID:  Farming And The Death Thereof.

LUNATIC:  Kansas City Police Seek Woman Trying to Torch Warehouse Linked to ICE Sale.

THANK HEAVENS I PREPARED FOR THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY BY READING PULP SCIENCE FICTION!  USDA Deploys Sterilized Flies, High‑Tech Arsenal to Guard the Border Against Screwworm Threat.

GOOD. IT WON’T ELIMINATE ALL THE WASTE AND FRAUD BUT IT WILL ELIMINATE SOME OF IT:  Small Business Administration shuts out non-U.S. citizens from its main lending program.

CORRUPTION:  4 Yakuza, 4 Livers, 100+ Dead Americans; No problem. The UCLA Report You’ve Never Seen. Between 2000-2004, four vicious yakuza (Japanese gangsters) got liver transplants at UCLA. Tadamasa Goto, the most famous of them, died on February 8. Why was he given a life extension at all?

NICKI MINAJ, A CULTURAL INFLECTION POINT MOST DON’T GET. THIS INCLUDES ME: Wow. This made me so happy. Barbz, update the hashtag with #SaveAmericaAct beginning now & going forward. I’ll do a poll for you guys to choose if you’d like a new look or a new Spaces tonight.

And for the lack-x.

HHS GOES THE OPEN SOURCE, DIG UP PROBLEMS ROUTE:  HHS and DOGE Release Medicaid Dataset to Expose Fraud.

C. CHANCY HAS A BOOK IN THIS SALE. SO DO I:  Based Book Sale Selections.

THIS ONE IS LONGER, BUT SO AMUSING:  Ring and Innocence. It’s for the best Sauron didn’t get ahold of this one.

AS IF TWO-TIER KEIR WOULD FALL ON HIS SWORD BEFORE SHOVING EVERYBODY ELSE ON THEIRS:  The man who should have been first to quit in Mandelson scandal.

ROUTINELY (BOOK REVIEW):   How Big Pharma gets away with murder.