THEY’VE BEEN TELLING HIM THIS FOR A WHILE:  9/11 Families Tell Mamdani to Skip Memorial Ceremony.

MOSTLY BECAUSE MARX WAS A DUMB ASS:  QotD: Why the revolution envisioned by Marx didn’t happen.

IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A TOXIC CLIQUE:  The Actual Problem in the Clancy Mistrial Wasn’t the Holdout — It Was Nurses Explaining Toxicology.

HOW DO YOU LAYER ALL THOSE FACT CHECKERS? AND HOW MUCH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING BETWEEN THE LAYERS?  Fiction-Checkers.

PROPAGANDA ISN’T NEW:  The American Crises.

THE AZTECS WERE NOT NOBLE SAVAGES. WELL, NOT NOBLE AT ANY RATE:  REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen.

I MUST INFORM YOU I’M NOT PART OF A HIVE MIND:  The Collective.

IT’S SEVEN IN THE MORNING. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR MARS ROVER IS UP TO?  What is going on with Perseverance?

THEY’RE ONLY GOING TO REPORT ON POTENTIALLY EMBARRASSING HAPPENINGS:  Mainstream TV vague about airing first-ever GOP midterm convention — as NFL serves up big competition.

A GOOD MAN WITH A GUN ROLL OF DUCT TAPE:  NJ gun shop owner ID’d as hero who duct-taped unruly airline passenger — and his clapback to the lunatic was brilliant.

THERE ARE PRO EU MYTHS?  Iceland Shatters Every Pro EU Myth There Is. The Icelandic refusal to join the EU has implications far beyond its own sovereignty and should serve as a lesson to Britain’s establishment Brexit subversives.

NO. IT’S BAD SCIENCE FICTION. NEXT?  Is the New HIGH Climate Scenario Plausible?  Good news and bad news from a close look at the new CMIP7 scenarios.

NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE:  American Heroes of 9/11: Todd Beamer and the Passengers of Flight 93.

SO, ANOTHER DAY ENDING IN “Y”:  This Liberal Writer Got Slapped With a Brutal Community Note.

THEY ARE NOT AMERICAN:  Muslim police chief of Detroit suburb told his subordinates that wife-beating isn’t a “formal” criminal offense.

THAT’S WHO THE LEFT IS:  Very Clever, Washington Democrats! Screwing the Public Employee Unions who support your Income Tax!

They’re the “Hyenas eating people’s faces party.” You vote for them, sooner or later your face gets eaten.

SANDERS DANCES WITH THE ONES WHO BRUNG HIM, I.E. RUSSIA AND CHINA:  Sanders’ Bill Threatens US AI Developers With ‘Corporate Death Penalty,’ Prison Time.

ALL THE EUROPEAN POLITICIANS…  Who emits the most CO₂?

I’D READ STUDIES TO THE EFFECT IT MIGHT BE CHILDHOOD LACK OF EXPOSURE BEFORE:  On the Origins of Peanut Allergy. Before 1980, peanut allergy was so rare that the idea of someone dying from it was preposterous. So what changed?

I don’t believe it’s peanut butter, btw. Husband and his family are addicted to it, and none of the kids have peanut allergies. (Mind you, they seem to prefer natural, home blended. Uh.)

OH YES? NOT SINCE THE NINETIES, WHEN I CANCELLED MY SUBSCRIPTION FOR BLATANT LEFT-WING TILT:  Scientific American used to be a respected science publication.

A MESSY POST FOR A MESSY SUBJECT:  Labor.

AW, POOR WIDDLE GOVERNOR:  NY forced to fire Salvadoran, Haitian govt workers. Govno Hochul unhappy.

YEP:  Okay, this is the best way to explain why AI Slop is not what you think. By using AI Denzel Washington to explain it all. This is actually really good. Well written, directed and generated.

X-cancel.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

Since they voluntarily associate with my blog, they obviously don’t hate people on the right. Reading people who don’t hate you is a good thing!

I HAVEN’T BEEN SHARING THESE, AS PERSONAL LIFE TOOK ALL MY ATTENTION (AND WILL FOR ANOTHER WEEK OR SO, BUT MAYBE ENOUGH I CAN POST HERE):  Holidays to Home- Part One. In which Donnal the apprentice wizard begins a journey.

I think it’s fun, though.