WELL, HE IS A LEFTIST MALE:  Charisma Carpenter accuses Joss Whedon of ‘toxic’ behavior on ‘Buffy’.

WE KNOW WE CAN ALWAYS TRUST THE WHO BECAUSE REASONS: WHO scientist says COVID-19 likely originated from bats in China.

Among other reasons, we’re mentally deficient, we want to be fooled, or we think the there’s some kind of pay off in kowtowing to the idiot left.

FORGET DOXING. SHE’S A RACIST, EATEN UP WITH HATE:  NY Times defends ‘1619 Project’ creator after she doxxed reporter.

SO IF YOU’RE CONCERNED ABOUT AIR POLLUTION? TELL CHINA TO COOL IT:  Plume of Sahara dust caused spike in European air pollution.

WELL, AT LEAST AOC SAVED NYC FROM THIS:  Amazon’s new Virginia HQ building looks like a poop emoji.

Of course nothing could save NYC from Billy the Red.

I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN SNOW WAS JUST A THING OF THE PAST:   Eiffel Tower needs blowtorch for ice as snow blankets Europe.

In fact, I’m so old, I remember when we were all going to be frozen solid by 2000. Weirdly the solution for Global Freezening (look, dumb concepts deserve dumb words, okay) was the same as for Global Warmering. Moar Socialism! It’s like there’s an agend driving all these panics, no?

OH DEAR LORD:  The latest NYC dating trend: His and hers COVID rapid tests.

FROM: C. R. Chancy: A Net of Dawn and Bones

Blood rituals, black magic, and broken masquerades. Names to run away from really fast. And maybe the end of the world….
Welcome to Intrepid, North Carolina. Where autumn brings leaf season, tourists, and bloody sacrifice.
Twenty years have passed since the Dark Day brought creatures of horror onto the evening news. Now vampires run nightclubs, alchemists deal potions on the street corners, and werewolf gangs lay claim to shady alleys. The honest cops of Intrepid enforce human laws on supernatural evil, and pray. Because the turn of the leaves brings Halloween, tourists… and the return of a serial killer who’s plagued Intrepid for over two decades.
Yet the night holds darker secrets than even the best detectives have unearthed. Somewhere in Intrepid, a demonic sorcerer plans to bring Hell on earth. And the Demongate is almost complete.
In the midst of a stakeout gone wrong, two mysterious wanderers drop into Detective Church’s life. Aidan, who moves like flames and holds secrets in his shadows… and Myrrh, a holy warrior born of ancient Alexandria. Enchantress. Heretic. Hell-raider.
Welcome to Intrepid.
Evil’s in for a hell of a night….

WHEN THE SUPPLIERS DON’T CARE WHAT THE DEMAND IS, IT MEANS THEY’VE CUT OFF FEEDBACK:  Corrupted Markets.

In industries they’re ruinous. In governments? They’re deadly.

IF AT FIRST IT’S DISASTROUS, KEEP DOING IT:  Biden Administration: Rejoin UN Human Rights Council.

MAYBE I’M THE ONLY PERSON UNDER SIXTY WHO SQUEES AT THIS:  Concordance to Cordwainer Smith.

WHY SHOULD THEY GET TO FUNCTION?  ICE Not Allowed To Deport Criminals.

Also, we know we deport Zhou Bai Den and Commie LaWhorish to China.
What to do with Pelosi becomes a problem, though. I don’t even know where the border to hell is, so how do we repatriate her?

I INVITE THE SPCL TO GAZE LOVINGLY ON MY MIDDLE FINGERS:  Today’s blacklisted Americans: All Republicans who questioned the November election count.

BIDEN WILL DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO HELP THEM GET THERE EARLIER:  IDF intelligence: Iran at least two years from nuclear bomb.

WE’VE NOTICED:  Lee Smith: The American Elite’s Primary Allegiance Is No Longer to America, But to the Communist Party of China, That Makes Them Rich and Keeps Them In Power.

PEARL MILLING COMPANY?  Aunt Jemima breakfast brand renamed Pearl Milling Company.

Really makes you want to slather it on your hotcakes, doesn’t it?

SOURCE UNKNOWN BUT I AM SURE IT ISN’T CHINA. NOT: Washington hospitals pulling fake N95 masks off shelves: ‘We’re horrified’.

YOU’LL STILL NEED SOMEBODY TO GIVE YOU THE SHOTS: COVID-19 vaccine drone delivery being developed.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO?  Drinking more coffee lowers heart failure risk, study shows.

OH, DEAR LORD:  Michelle Obama launching Netflix cooking show ‘Waffles + Mochi’.

FROM CELIA HAYES:  Adelsverein:The Complete Trilogy.

The Adelsverein Trilogy, now combined in a single hardbound edition, is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They came from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the “Mainzer Adelsverein” – the society of noblemen of Mainz, who tried to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen. Christian “Vati” Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his sons and daughters: Magda – passionate and courageous, courted by Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister Liesel wants nothing more than to be a good wife to her husband Hansi, a stolid and practical farmer called by circumstances to be something greater, in the boom years of the great cattle ranches. Their brothers Friedrich and Johann, have always been close – in the Civil War, one will wear Union blue, the other Confederate grey homespun – but never forget they are brothers. And finally, there is Vati’s adopted daughter Rosalie, whose life ends as it began – in tragedy. But Vati’s family will will survive and ultimately triumph. They will make their mark in Texas, their new land. Adelsverein: It’s about love and loss, joy and grief . . . and the sometimes wrenching process of becoming American.

AND THIS IS JUST COOL:  Meet YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries.

I DID ONE OF THOSE FREE SHORT STORY THINGS, AGAIN: Magic Mirror.

It’s short and silly and… it happens.

WHEN THEY SAY “ELITE” I HEAR “SNOBS”:  New York Review of Books is hookup spot for intellectuals.

TEACH WOMEN THAT SCHOOLS ARE NOT HUNTING GROUNDS FOR THEIR LUST:  Florida teacher had sex with female student in classroom.

Good thing most men have been discouraged from teaching, right? (Spit.)