I’D LIKE TO MEET THIS MAN. HE FIGHTS:  Can Monica Nieporte and William (Bill) Lawhorn’s Careers and Reputations Survive Jason Sanford?

FROM KIM DU TOIT:  Prime Target.

Nick Walker moves to California to take a new job as a senior data analyst. Everything looks rosy: he’s getting a good salary and has fine prospects at a reputable company. On his first day on the job, however, he discovers that the company has been taken over by a huge data management company, and Nick soon learns that their biggest client is the U.S. Government. Nick becomes part of a small team of “data miners” who comb through masses of international financial transactions collected by various government agencies, to try to predict terrorist activity by tracking their spending.

One day a suspicious set of financial transactions is brought to Nick’s desk for further investigation, and in a stunning revelation, he discovers that the government has begun covertly spying on millions of American citizens, not just foreigners.

As a Desert Storm veteran with expertise in communications, his expertise in data management, and with help from his girlfriend (and expert hacker) Cassie Papadakis, Nick hopes to overcome the tremendous odds against him to expose this illegal activity, but it’s difficult when the lawbreakers are themselves the government agencies that are supposed to be safeguarding the nation.

How far up the chain of command does this lawlessness go?

LOOK, MY FANS SAID I SHOULD DO THIS:  Strangely Awkward Self Promo.

But I don’t have to be comfortable with it.

I BET YOU CAN GUESS WHAT KINDS OF CHANGES THEY THINK OUGHT BE MADE:  UN: Huge changes in society needed to keep nature, Earth OK.

I have an idea. Get rid of the UN, much happier people. Then get rid of socialism and communism, to keep nature, the Earth okay. There. End of discussion. (Truly, totalitarian societies are ecological disasters and the darlings of the UN.)

PROOF POSITIVE ZIMBARDO WAS NOT A ONE OFF FOR THE PROFESSION:  Columbia prof: I snort heroin regularly for ‘work-life balance’.

And, oh, yeah, higher education implosion update.

WE NEED MORE OF THIS. REMEMBER YOU’RE AMERICANS:  No Longer Consenting, Carlsbad California Restaurant Owners Defy Order and Open for Indoor Dining…

SHINY, LET’S BE BAD GUYS:  An American Dissident Sounds a Trumpet.

TO BE FAIR, JOE WAS ALWAYS THAT DUMB:  Australia News Calls Out Joe Biden for Cognitive Compromise, The Dementia is Transparently Obvious.

Our theory for over a decade has been that the hair plugs went a little too deep.

PARTISAN HACKS IS ALL THEY HAVE:  What could possibly go wrong with the appointment of General Honoré to oversee a supposedly objective review of the Capitol riot?

WOULDN’T IT BE EASIER AT THIS POINT TO LIST NON-BLACK-LISTED AMERICANS?  Today’s blacklisted Americans: Any lawyer who defended Trump.

I MIGHT HAVE ENCOURAGED THIS FINE BLOGGER TO START THIS FEATURE:  Inaugural “Turtleboy of the Month” Award.

IDIOTS BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD DROOL AS FOUL:  Woke Teachers Now Trying to Cancel William Shakespeare.

I’ve long been fascinated by the left’s need to pull down all giants of the past. It’s as though they know they’re intellectual midgets who can never measure up, and at the same time are trying to hide it from everyone else.

SURE, WHY NOT?  Report: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Pushing ‘Anti-Racist’ Initiative in Math.

After all, any good coder knows 2 + 2 can equal 5, or fluffy pink duck, or boomer billionaire destroys civilization.

SHE IS RIGHT:   Smith College Whistleblower Jodi Shaw Resigns Over “Racially Hostile Environment” Created By Critical Race Training.

WE WANT EVERY OLD PERSON IN THE US TO GET A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST HIM:  Cuomo Nursing Home Death Scandal: NY Assembly GOP Wants Impeachment Commission, AOC Wants Investigation.

I mean…. do you want to kill grandma? No? Then don’t let Cuomo near them.  Oh, and let everyone else out of the ridiculous lockdowns and mandates.

COMPLETELY IMPARTIAL, COMRADE:  Covid Commission Chair Jeffrey Sachs Praises China, Slams U.S.

WRITTEN BY A FRIEND WHO WISHES TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS:
For My Own Good

THEY’D DO WELL TO HEED IT:  An Open Letter To The Old Time Fans at WorldCon.

BEFORE I INTRO THE BOOK BY MARGARET BALL: About 3 (?) years ago, during a rambling post about women writers I liked, I hapened to mention one written by Margaret Ball. Keep in mind, I knew she was older than I, because I was reading her when the kids (now grown up) were tiny.  This doesn’t always hold true, of course, some people just get published younger. But since I had read her years and years ago, and she didn’t have anything new out, I assumed she had died perhaps suddenly.
By some miracle, she was searching for her name on the net that day, and came onto my blog to see why she was being mentioned. More surprisingly (or not, considering the industry had side lined her) our political beliefs are simpatico.  After hanging out on my blog a while, and hearing about indie she thought she’d try it.

The thing is, she’s worse at publicity than I am (but as good a writer as she ever was.)  So:

FROM MARGARET BALL:  A Pocketful of Stars (Applied Topology Book 1).

Thalia Kostis will be the first to tell you it’s not magic, it’s theoretical math when she walks a Möbius strip through walls to her office at the Institute for Applied Topology. CIA Case Officer Bradislav Lensky doesn’t care what it is, as long as she can help track down a smuggling ring and the terrorists in their safe house in Austin. The other magicians nearby don’t agree, and don’t care for new rivals either!

Now Thalia and the rest of her misfit crew are in a race against time, terrorists, common sense, grackles, and their graduate advisor to save the day!

OKAY. IT’S A BIT RANTY:  Strong Women.

EVERY DAY, IN EVERY WAY, THEY’RE COMING FOR US:  Today’s blacklisted American: The sci-fi publishing company Baen Books.

GOOD. THE COUNTRY IS OCCUPIED, BUT NOT DEFEATED:  Social media censorship legislation proposed in Kansas.

IT’S HAPPENING MORE AND MORE THESE DAYS:  When They Say The Quiet Part Out Loud.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  The Navy’s Greatest Failure Since Pearl Harbor.

HAVE THEY READ THE CONSTITUTION?  House Democrats introduce bill to ban “Twice Impeached Presidents” from burial at Arlington National Cemetery

Perhaps if we get someone to help them with the long words?