SURE: Economists Warn We Can’t Keep Ignoring the National Debt Forever.

Fortunately the arcane art of mathematics is white patriarchal oppression, and as the wise Latina of the Occasional Cortex has told us, we can just print more money.

EVEN IN VENEZUELA, IT CAN’T LAST:  Bloomberg: Venezuela Turns to Privatization After Being Bankrupted by Socialism.

Behold! My shocked face!

IF YOU HAVE KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL, BEWARE THEY’RE BEING INDOCTRINATED:  White People Aren’t Human.

And the indoctrination is evil and racist.

AND WHAT A SURPRISE IT’S BEEN:  The Computer Age Turns 75.

I was just (re)reading Tunnel In The Sky (or as you kids should know, the much better original for Hunger Games) last week, and I was once more stunned at how far the predictions fell off reality.

Sure, in space too, and we could argue forever about whose fault it is. Sometimes I think the FEFers (Fix Earth Firsters) morons are paid by aliens who want to keep us off space. But falling short of dreams is not surprising. In computers, however? we outstripped those dreams and left them in the dust.

TEXAS WILL BE FINE:  Snowpocalypse Now.

Y’all know they just did this to scare away Californians. Let me tell you, though: if it didn’t save Colorado, ain’t no ice going to run Californians off. Alas.

TEXAS, IF THIS ICE THING BECOMES REGULAR, YOU’D BEST BE AS FUNNY:  Scotland names its snowplows, and they are delightful.Meltin’ John, Snowbegone Kenobi and Fred grit up the Highlands and the lowlands.

AND THEY WERE TOO STUPID NOT TO TAKE IT:  Obamacare was the turning point for the American left.

This turning point ends badly. For them.

YES. WE’RE ALL FINDING OUR OWN WAYS:  Bypassing the blacklist: Robert Pratt’s new podcast.

WELL, HE’S BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY CHINA:  Biden Is Making America Last. . .

DID A REPUBLICAN DO IT? THEN IT’S TEH EVIL! YOU KNOW IT: Vaccinating Seniors First Is Wrong In Florida.

If doing logical things is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

HIGHER EDUCATION’S ACCELERATED IMPLOSION:  Smith College: The New Wave Of Hostile Work Environments.

HOW CRAZY HAS THIS NATION GONE IN THE LAST TEN YEARS?   KERMIT CANCELED? Disney Slaps ‘Offensive Content’ Label On The Muppet Show.

I’m so old, I remember when every Republican candidate was rumored to want to cancel Big Bird…

FROM NITAY ARBEL:  Operation Flash, Episode 3: Spring Awakening.

The third installment of the alternate history series where Hitler and Himmler were assassinated in March 1943.
A desperate military situation forces Carl Goerdeler’s Emergency Reich Government (ERG) to make a bargain with the devil.
Across the Channel, Winston Churchill plays for time as he pursues a separate peace with Goerdeler.
Two old acquaintances make the first steps on a long march toward national atonement.
And meanwhile, the ERG’s deadliest enemy lurks within its gates.

DEAR BABYLON BEE, STOP PUBLISHING TOMORROW’S NEWS TODAY:  Bill Gates Warns Of The Sacrifices We’ll Have To Make In Stirring Speech Given From His 650 Million Dollar Super Yacht.

Or at least let us have the time machine. We want to go back to 2000. We have plans. So many plans.*

*We promise not to blend any past-puppies. Or step on butterflies.**

** We might be lying about the butterflies, but seriously. How could 2020 get any worse?

IF YOU NEED TO BUY: China Never.

Because war with economics beats war with bombs.

POLIFACT IS A JOKE:  PolitiFact Is Ticked That We Fact-Checked Their False Fact-Check Of Our Fact-Check Of Their Fact-Check.

CENSORSHIP, FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!  Report: Biden Administration Is Teaming Up with Big Tech to Censor Vaccine Skeptics.

Again, I’ve never had a problem with a vaccine before (besides being wiped out by the flu vaccine a few times, but that’s expected, not a problem) but when the government is so almighty anxious to give me a vaccine they say won’t protect me fully for a bug that is not a great danger, I’ll only take it if I’m allowed to inject vinaigrette into Commie La Whorish and the Fauci poseur in return.
Those are my terms, if they want it that badly.

FROM JAMES YOUNG:  Against the Tide Imperial: The Struggle for Ceylon.

Well, here’s to hope that my gamble is correct. For if I am wrong, I may truly regret this decision.—Vice Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, commander of the Kido Butai

July 1943. When the United Kingdom was torn asunder under a hail of German firebombs and nerve gas, the distant outpost of Ceylon was an afterthought for both Allies and Axis. Now, one year after King George VI’s death, the small island off of India becomes center stage for a titanic confrontation.

For Vice Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, the Commonwealth forces on the island sit astride Japan’s sole reliable source of oil. With the Dutch East Indies’ refineries damaged during the Imperial Japanese conquest, Axis crude from the Persian Gulf and rubber from Ceylon’s plantations will be critical to the Japanese Navy’s ability to continue the war into 1944. Yamaguchi knows challenging Vice Admiral Andrew Cunningham may end poorly. Still, the Kido Butai is undefeated, and with good planning the Commonwealth’s Far East Fleet will have to face Yamaguchi’s carriers alone. With the Empire’s lifeblood on the line, the Japanese must roll the dice.

Across the Indian Ocean, Lieutenant Eric Cobb is  bewildered to be operating with the Commonwealth against Axis forces in Africa. Along with an Asiatic Fleet contingent that includes Captain Jacob Morton‘s Houston, Vice Admiral Fletcher’s forces set out to rampage from Madagascar to Mogadishu. Unfortunately for the Allies’ plan, the IJN’s unexpected attack forces them to immediately respond.

When established foes clash in a wholly unexpected location, brave men and violent execution will determine whether the Commonwealth holds Ceylon…or succumbs to the Tide Imperial.

Against the Tide Imperial is the third novel of the Usurper’s War series. As Allied and Axis warriors are faced with a completely different conflict than the one planned for decades, their actions will chart a new course for the Greatest Generation.

ATTEMPTING TO UNDERSTAND THE LEFT:  People of The System.

VERY RELEVANT:  Home Defense Firearms: A Newly Relevant Blast from the Past.

WE’RE GOING TO SEE MORE OF THIS:  U. Kansas Cutting Humanities Department, As Wokeness Destroys Academia From Within.

Admittedly I’m not in the field, but I have a lot of friends who teach, many of them deep in the political closet. (One of the consequences of being ABD in languages and literature is that I have a lot of equally bookish friends.) And from the things I’m hearing the covidiocy has destroyed higher education financial viability. They were one of those institutions on the way out in 20 years.  Now, I give them five, tops. And realize I’m being optimistic.

EVERYONE TO THE RIGHT OF LENIN WHO THINKS BASHING TRUMP GETS THEM SOMETHING IS A MORON:  Nikki Haley Bashes Trump, Then Seeks Meeting With Him. Request Denied.

And we don’t mean the cool Morons of Ace of Spades HQ.

IT’S EVERYWHERE. AND THE LEFT SHOULD KNOW IT DOESN’T LOOK GOOD FOR THEM:  The Attempted Deplatforming You Probably Never Heard Of – Baen Books Forum.

CRAZY CORPORATE RACISM:  Coke Gets Serious About Being Woke As a Joke.

SO TIRED OF THIS POSEUR:  Fauci Plays Reverse Card On Vaccines And Spread.