December 15, 2025

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS I DID A SERIES OF CHRISTMAS SHORT STORIES ON MY BLOG:  They’re now a book of six, reasonably sized short stories, centering around Christmas and (in this case) time travel. I guess I’m working again, despite everything.

Christmas In Time: A Collection of Short Stories

Christmas In Time: Six Stories of Time Travel and Second Chances

Time is not an Ocean. But then again it is.

From award-winning author Sarah A. Hoyt come six tales of time travel, parallel worlds, and the furthest reaches of space—all bound together by Christmas miracles and the choices that define us.

Meet Time Corps agents who risk madness to prevent reality from splintering. Follow a mathematician pulled into a parallel universe where his twin captains starships between worlds. Watch as mysterious children arrive from impossible futures, and discover Victorian lighthouses that serve as anchors in the storm of time itself. Journey from blood-soaked space stations to asteroid colonies at the edge of the known universe.

This collection includes “What Child Is This,” a prequel to Hoyt’s acclaimed novel No Man’s Land, revealing how a child’s accidental time-slip can save a man’s life and create the bonds of family love.

Posted at 12:24 am by Sarah Hoyt

December 14, 2025

REPORT: Rob Reiner and Wife Michele Found Dead At L.A. Home; Wounds Consistent With A Knife.

UPDATE: Rob Reiner and Wife Found Dead as LAPD Investigates ‘Apparent Homicide.’

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

UPDATE (From Ed): People magazine are reporting that “Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Killed by Their Son (Exclusive Sources).” “In a 2016 interview with PEOPLE, Nick spoke about his years-long struggle with drug addiction, which began in his early teens and eventually left him living on the streets. He said he cycled in and out of rehab beginning around age 15, but as his addiction escalated, he drifted farther from home and spent significant stretches homeless in multiple states.”

Posted at 11:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

SEE KURT SCHLICHTER’S THE ATTACK:

Posted at 10:55 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

QUESTION: If, as Ed notes, the Intifada has been globalized, doesn’t that mean that it’s been, well, globalized on both sides? If it’s a global Intifada, then isn’t a mosque or Islamic “charity” that, say, provided the guns to the Bondi shooters a legit target for droning? If not, why not? Can you have a global war in only one direction?

UPDATE (From Ed):

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A friend writes: “I’d say Bondi is exactly what globalize the intifada looks like. Murdering Jews wherever they find them. And every leftie with a keffiyeh should be made to know it.”

Yep. Make them own it.

Posted at 8:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

LOOK, TIMES ARE STILL TOUGH FOR MOST PEOPLE:  But these people need heat. I don’t know why they don’t say it in the description, but their heat quit, and they’re at rock bottom and working as hard as they can. (And they’re decent people.)  Help the Gregorys with home repairs!

Posted at 8:29 pm by Sarah Hoyt

CITIZENS DON’T NEED GUNS. THE POLICE WILL PROTECT YOU!

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Posted at 8:20 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ONE DELIBERATELY CREATED:

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UPDATE:

Posted at 7:09 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MAKE CHILE GREAT AGAIN! Kast Wins: Migration and Crime Fears Prod Chile to the Right in Presidential Vote. “Regionally, Kast’s triumph represents the latest rebuke of the left in Latin America after Javier Milei’s party won midterm elections in Argentina and Rodrigo Paz ended 20 years of socialist rule in Bolivia. It also gives US President Donald Trump another ally in a region that has increasingly tilted toward China in recent decades.”

Posted at 6:45 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ROGER SIMON: Are Tucker and Candace Responsible for Sydney Terror?

Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, plus the whole metastasizing antisemitic crew infecting social media, are not directly responsible for the horrifying Chanukah carnage in Sydney that, as of now, killed 15 and injured 40.

Still, it’s hard to deny that they—putatively conservatives, once anyway—with their constant internecine hostility generate a zeitgeist that encourages such events near and far.

Save Sen. John Fetterman, one of the few courageous politicians who declared opposition to rewarding Palestinian violence with a state, on Maria Baritoromo this morning (Dec. 14), it’s also hard to deny that nearly the entire Democratic Party has turned against Israel,

But that’s an old story. At the 2012 Democratic Party convention, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a voice vote in favor of moving the American embassy to Jerusalem. He got a salvo of furious catcalls in response.

By now, there’s hardly a defender of Israel in that party other than Sen. Fetterman. Most who may be are too afraid to say so.

Though smaller in number, the rise of antisemitism on the right is more recent and, to some extent, more ominous. It threatens to leave Jews and Israel without their only solid ally (and, not so parenthetically, the USA without its only reliable military partner in the Middle East).

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll