ME? I JUST WISH IT WOULD SPIN THE BOOK BUSINESS OUT TO SOMEONE WHO CARES:  What What Happened to Amazon, or “Don’t Put Down the Drone”. How Founders Become Day Two and Take the Company With Them.

NEEDS TO BE DONE:  As Labour Slow Walks Its Inquiry, Rupert Lowe Is Blowing Open the R@pe Gang Scandal; UPDATED.

NEWS NATION’S KATIE PAVLICH HAS BEEN REPORTING INCOMPETENCE AND CORRUPTION IN THE PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPT. BUT THAT’S UNBELIEVABLE GIVEN HOW WELL THEY’VE RUN THE LAST COUPLE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS:  Report: Pima County Sheriff Pulls Stunt in Nancy Guthrie Case That Has the FBI Fuming.

IT’S A PERFECT STORM OF CABLE NEWS CONTENT: ALL TALK, ALL THE TIME, ZERO SUBSTANCE:  The Nancy Guthrie Abduction Story Has Become the Willy Wonka Ferry Ride of Horror.

NOT AS SURE OF THIS AS HE IS:  So much for billable hours!

CALLING OUT THE LIES:  Kylie Cheung and Jessica Valenti tell miscarriage horror stories to recruit women who want to become pregnant into their pro-abortion crusade. The tactic preys on expectant mothers’ worst fears by falsely telling them “this could happen to you.”

AND FOR The XCancelled.

IF WE’RE GOING TO LIST EVERYTHING HOLLYWOOD DOESN’T UNDERSTAND, WE’RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BLOG:  Hollywood Doesn’t Understand Babies. How is babby formed?

I WOULD SAY THE PROBLEM IS NOT LACK OF REGULATION: But regulation by people who never did the job. There are other problems, but that one is huge.  Illegal Immigrants Are Just The Tip Of The Iceberg In Trucking Industry’s Troubles.

SO ARE MOST TRADITIONALLY PUBLISHED BOOKS FOR ADULTS:  Books for children written for “the narrative” instead of for children.

WE DO MAKE ART. SOMETIMES DESPITE OURSELVES. BUT FOR NOW THE INSTITUTIONS TO SLOSH MONEY AROUND ARE ALL IN LEFTY HANDS. So people like us? All we have are our fans:  Posts like that from creators are just the logical outgrowth of our semiannual Why Don’t Conservatives Make Art debate.

And for the Cancelled of X.

Oh, and if you are my fans/readers, this comes out on Saturday and still doesn’t have 200 pre-orders!  Done With Mirrors: A Collection of Short Stories (Sarah A. Hoyt’s Short Story Collections).

THIS. WE ALSO NEED A RECKONING FOR THE COVIDIOCY AND ALL OTHER INSTANCES OF ELITE OVERREACH, REALLY:  At Best, a Modern-Day Version of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”.

Although the biggest reckoning for most of the science-ists is that we now doubt all the “science says.” Their power is broken. And they love power.

YES, THAT’S PART OF IT. THE OTHER PART IS NOT HAVING ALL OUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET:  People frequently float the concept of an “Antarctic dry run”. But the point of going to space isn’t to go to space because we can. It’s not a vanity project. The point of going to space is that there’s valuable stuff there. I wrote a whole article about this called “The Trillionaires of Mars”.

AND FOR THE: Cancelled of X.

EW. EW. EW. EW:  DC has spilled 250 MILLION gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac in the past month: “Largest spill … in U.S. history”.

IGNORE THE DITSYING AND THE HEALTH STUFF (MOSTLY): This is about why we write what we write. And also the Based book sale. And the intersection of the two.

OH, GOOD:  Wyoming Moves to Pull the Plug on Costly Pronghorn and Sidewinder Wind Projects.

YAY:  Trump, EPA Announce Termination of Obama’s Climate Change Regulations.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, THE BASED BOOKSALE IS ON:  The 2026 Spring Based Book Sale!  Runs Now Through Tuesday February 17, 2026.

I have the first volume of No Man’s Land in it for 99c. It won’t be that low again for at least a year (to be clear, I have no intention of having another sale on it anytime soon.)

FROM HOLLY CHISM:  The Passing of the Age.

Once, gods and Titans went to war because humanity existed and the Titans…didn’t like that. Will, the blacksmith’s apprentice, was born long after the war’s bitter, destructive, last gasp. It left the land scarred, leaving behind the Wastes, a massive pit in the landscape, dug by poisoned magic. The old world was lost in the ashes, and survivors were left with so little that any who didn’t pull their weight (or had something someone powerful wanted) were exiled to starve in the Wastes.
Just. Like. Will.
Cast out to the Wastes because his father remarried and his stepmother had wanted her children to inherit, he turned to his master, the smith. The smith, who had held Will back to keep using his labor for free, refused to go against the rest of the village, angry though he was to lose Will’s labor. In lieu of the honestly-earned status of journeyman that would have protected Will from exile, his master gave him a bag of grave goods: a hammer (but not a good one), tongs (that were rusting to pieces), and a file (more than half worn out). And two small coins to pay the ferryman when he reached the river dividing life from death.
Will entered the wastes with the clothes on his back, inadequate grave goods, and determination to live through it, in spite of his village. And a mission given him by the Land, and by the god of the wild places, to take the knife he made with his grave goods to the very center of the Wastes. There, he will find his destiny.

INTERESTING GUY:  It’s Battle Drills author Shane Gries!  Meet the Author, Soldier, Diplomat, and Dad.

I READ ENID BLITON IN THE LATE SIXTIES AND EARLY SEVENTIES IN PORTUGAL:  The English conquistador of the Indian Imagination. Reading Enid Blyton in 80s India.

It breaks my heart what Great Britain has become.

IF ICE WEREN’T DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB THE LEFT WOULDN’T BE PUSHING BACK SO HARD:  And if the ICE should break, Part 1.

HIRING FOR ANY REASON BUT COMPETENCE TURNS EVERYTHING TO SH*T:  Potomac Sewage 9,900% Error: DC’s DEI‑Focused Water Authority Can’t Count E. coli.

HE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE CAUGHT IN THAT TRAP:  Bill Maher Reveals Why He Got the COVID Vaccine…and He’s Rather Annoyed About It.

THE SPORT IS CALLED GRAPPLING, NOT GROPING: Why This Girl Wrestler Had Shock and Horror All Over Her Face? It’s All on Video.

THE LEFT MAKES EVERYTHING POLITICAL:  When Sports Were Fun.