I’M NOT SURE IT’S A DESCENT. MORE BEING PUSHED:   Our Descent Into Collective Madness?

HE’S FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. NOW IT’S OUR TURN:  02-18-21 Rush Limbaugh 1951-2021.

THE FICUS ASSURES US THIS IS JUST A DIFFERENT CULTURAL TRADITION: Liberal press concealed China’s mass murder of members of Buddhist group.

UNEXPECTEDLY:  New weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rose by 13,000 to 861,000 in the week that ended February 13, the Department of Labor said Thursday.

FROM ALMA BOYKIN:  Familiar Tale.

Smiley Lorraine: Wolverine. Rosie Jones: 100-lb. Skunk. Morgana Lorraine: Witch with Editorial Problems.

Welcome to a world where Familiars choose magic workers, and a few others, as their partners. A world of adventure, tax-deductions, bad publisher tricks, and odd veterinary clinics, where wolverines wear glasses and iguanas sing along with the radio—badly—while casting spells and keeping their chosen humans out of mischief.

Or try to.

(Five short-stories.)

Oh, and there’s a review of book sixteen here.

OH, YEAH, HE AND I GOT A PREVIEW OF ALL THIS 5 YEARS AGO:  ‘Monster Hunter’ Scribe Shares Cancel Culture Survival Tips.

SOME WORKERS ARE LESS ESSENTIAL THAN OTHERS:  Vaccine delays leave grocery workers feeling expendable.

TO BE FAIR, EXPERTISE ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE:  India’s dramatic fall in COVID-19 cases leaves experts stumped.

NAH. THEY’RE NOW DOING VILLAIN MONOLOGUES:  Officer Sicknick’s death: the only surprise here is that the NY Times actually issued any sort of retraction at all, even a mild one.

They want us to know how smart they are!

I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN SNOWFALLS WERE A THING OF THE PAST:  In Athens, rare snow blankets Acropolis, halts vaccinations.

EASY TO LURE SOMEONE WHO HAS NO OTHER OPTIONS:  Cryptocurrency Seeks to Lure Firearms Companies Amid Threat Banks Will Cut Off Gun Industry.

ANYTHING TO DESPOIL US OF OUR RIGHTS:  Media Applauds Biden’s Grotesque Exploitation Of Parkland.

WE KNOW: Government Health Care is Not Actual Health Care.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE: Wind And Solar TKO’d By Ice And Snow.

NOT VERY SHADOWY:  Kamala Harris Becoming a Shadow President.

IT AIN’T NO BIG THING:  An update on coronavirus from an Arizona doctor.

THE TRULY TERRIBLE THING IS THAT THIS IS A DAILY FEATURE:  Today’s blacklisted Americans: Ivy league students & teachers demand revocation of all degrees earned by Republican politicians.

I’VE HAD MY DIFFERENCES WITH BAEN, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS:  Publishing House Baen Books Attacked by Cancel Culture.

A lot of what the idiots are complaining about is coming into a site where you’re not familiar with the culture and skimming till offended. Also Baen is not particularly right wing. It just has some right wing writers (or to the right of Lenin) instead of de facto cancelling them.
Of course, this means the left sees them as a soft target.
Again I’ve had my differences with them — partly because they’re in the invidious position of being a traditional house while trad pub is collapsing, and no one is dealing well with that — but they do not deserve this, and it is threatening the livelihoods of my friends.

FROM IAN GRAHAM:  Stellar.

Meet Stellar – urban crime-fighter who tackles injustice with swift and decisive action, carrying the burden of freeing society from oppression, fighting for the weak and wounded.

She is brave.

She is beautiful.

She is just a comic book character… or at least she was.

Macy Davis is an athletic high school student with an eye for Patrick Newell, the young artist who created Stellar. When Macy’s best friend, Keri Cartwright, discovers Patrick’s comic book heroine, she convinces Macy to masquerade as Stellar because to Macy, Stellar is Patrick’s perfect girl. But when Macy dons a homemade costume to surprise Patrick at the Halloween Dance, her debut takes an unexpected twist and the reveal is more than anyone, including Macy, could have ever imagined.

AND MORE ON HOW THE MEDIA IS FAILING: Fisking the WAPO Editor Who is Sad He Doesn’t Get to Act Like the Mafia Anymore.

YOU NEED A BOB (BUG OUT BAG) IN YOUR LIFE: Many Shades of BOB.

LOOK, I’VE BEEN AROUND A WHILE. MOSTLY THEY WANT US TO BELIEVE THAT:  Lee Smith Nails It, The Elites “Want Us To Know” They Hold all Power and Control.

Because they know it’s not true. They’re bluffing.

Have none of these people, ever, played poker?

REMEMBER WHAT I SAID ABOUT LEFTY “SOLUTIONS”?   The Personal Impact Of The PRO Act.

SURE. BECAUSE, WHY NOT?  CDC Admits It Based School Guidelines on Teacher Input and Stakeholders.

Look, at least they didn’t base it on chicken entrails.
Wait, am I giving them ideas?

WHILE DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO MITIGATE THE PROBLEM IT PURPORTS TO MITIGATE:  Unintended Consequences: Mask Mandates Resulting in “Mask Pollution”.

In other words, the typical lefty “solution.”  It doesn’t fix what it’s supposed to fix, it breaks a bunch of other things, but it makes you feel important and caring.