AS IT HAPPENS, I’VE SET THE FIRST VOLUME AT 99c TO MAKE SURE THE PRICE WAS RIGHT WHEN THE BASED BOOKSALE BEGAN ON THE 11th: DAILY ART FIX: Book Review “No Man’s Land” by Sarah Hoyt.
This is as low as I intend to set the price of this volume for this Prometheus nominated novel for the next year. It will be 99c till the 18th.
AN OVER-REGULATED INDUSTRY IN NY? INCONCEIVABLE! New York’s child care industry second worst in US for cost, overregulation: report.
WHAT FAITH? HE’S A BREATH AWAY FROM KNEELING TOWARD MECCA: A King who doubts his faith cannot offer spiritual leadership.
ENFORCING LAWS? WHAT KIND OF CRAZY POLICY IS THAT FOR AN ADMINISTRATION? U.S. Secret Service Seized 3 Card Skimmers in Alabama, Stopping $3.1M in Fraud.
SOMEONE IS CHECKING HER WEBSITE??? Jasmine Crockett Finally Added Some Policy to Her Website and It Was a Disaster.
YOU DON’T HATE MASS MEDIA ENOUGH: CNN Political Analyst Calls for ‘Fumigation’ to ‘Surgically Remove the Cancer’ of MAGA.
RACIALLY FIXATED IDIOTS WHO THINK WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE PROBLEM ARE BOTH STUPID AND POISONOUS: Texas Lawmaker Goes Mask Off: Non-Whites Can “Take Over This Country”.
To be fair, all racially fixated idiots are poisonous. But this variety are a particular brand of stupid.
SO, IT WAS TRUE: VINDICATION FOR DUNDEE’S BRAVE GIRLS: Couple charged with assault after last year’s weapon incident we defended Remember when @elonmusk my retweeted post backing the Scottish teens who armed themselves against harassers, and we were condemned for “spreading misinformation”?
And for the Cancelled of X.
THEY NEED P*SSING OFF: World Hijab Day. In which your Humble Scribe pisses-off the Multi-Cultis.
JAPANESE ELECTION THOUGHTS: Japan’s Election..Some observations and thoughts.
ACTUALLY DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN PLAYING REDISTRICTING GAMES FOR DECADES: Virginia Democrat gives profanity-laced response to Cruz’s criticism of the state’s redistricting push. ‘You all started it and we f—ing finished it,’ Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L Louise Lucas said.
IOWAHAWK ON THE SUPER BOWL ADS:
I don’t know about you but I have a sudden craving for AI and fat drugs
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 9, 2026
UPDATE:
Amazon Alexa murders Chris Hemsworth several times over in an unsettling Super Bowl ad.
Strange marketing choice. They basically handed viewers nightmares.
First, Chris imagines Alexa beheading him as she tells him to look under the garage door.
Next, he imagines Alexa saying… pic.twitter.com/A8CCnepY9G
— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) February 9, 2026
BAD BUNNY IS NO DADDY YANKEE.
Over 5 MILLION concurrent viewers were watching @TPUSA’s Halftime Show.
What a triumph.
America is witnessing a massive cultural shift.
We are winning 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/EpQqWI0LWT
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 9, 2026
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW:
North sea fisherman here, we have starlink on our boat and it's bloody brilliant 👏 pic.twitter.com/OZfSmu9tRi
— FROG YOCKS (@FogYocks) February 8, 2026
I love the appearance by Arthur C. Clarke.
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
AMERICANS WILL USE ANY MEASUREMENT TO AVOID THE METRIC SYSTEM: This supermassive black hole jet is more powerful than the Death Star’s laser.
A REPORT FROM A FRIEND IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA:
I want to relate something to you that is worth you blogging about. File under “(Some of) The Kids are Alright.” I am at a restaurant in Columbia called Publico that serves pitchers of mimosas. It is easily 98% women which is odd. But when they played the national anthem, everyone in the place sang along. Honestly it made me tear up. And lots of the undergrads I have talked to are from the North. These colleges are doing something right and they are succeeding. But a bunch of 20-something undergrads spontaneously singing the National Anthem really got to me. I think we’ll fine.
You’re feeling the change of the guard.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF FINANCE: Student loan debt can stymie retirement saving.
I THINK THAT’S BEEN THE CASE FOR A WHILE:
My latest for @thetimes
"Many educated elites have long excused rule-breaking among people in more disadvantaged communities, arguing that the system is stacked against them…Now, bizarrely, they are extending that same moral leniency to themselves."https://t.co/qS9fsVY3VG
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) February 6, 2026
HALFTIME S***SHOW: Even NFL Players Have No Idea Who Bad Bunny Is (Just Like the Rest of Us).
One of the biggest cultural gaslights from the left over the past few months leading up to today’s Super Bowl has been that we should all know how great halftime performer Bad Bunny is. And, of course, if we don’t know, we’re are (say it with us), ‘RAAAAAYYYCCCIIIISSSS!’
The truth is that before Jay-Z forced this irrelevant artist on the NFL and the nation, most of America had never heard of him. Since his selection, however, the leftist media has been trying to turn him into the biggest thing in music since The Rolling Stones. The Grammys heaped awards on him, the media has hilariously and falsely claimed that Americans are learning Spanish ahead of his performance, and everyone on the left is pretending that they’ve always been big fans.
As a part of Generation X (which still has the best music and always will), this writer thought that maybe it’s just a matter of being out of touch with the younger generations. Turns out, not so much.
Over the weekend, one reporter decided to ask the NFL players themselves (who are all pretty young) what their favorite Bad Bunny banger was. The responses they gave were nothing short of hilarious. Watch:
https://twitter.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2019831743327662508
Back in 2014, Mark Steyn explored “The Holes We Dig:”
I see that today is Courtney Love’s 50th birthday. She’s not my bag musically, but I treasure her for one brief exchange about a decade and a half ago.
Circa 1998, Miss Love, lead singer of the popular beat combo Hole, was at a Democrat fundraiser in Hollywood when the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Al Gore, approached her. “I’m a really big fan,” gushed the Vice-President.
“Yeah, right,” scoffed Courtney. “Name a song.”
The panicked Vice-Panderer floundered helplessly for a few moments until his Secret Service detail moved in and rescued him. As first promulgated by Denis Healey, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, the politician’s First Rule of Holes is: When you’re in one, stop digging. Al introduced us to a Second Rule: When you’re with one, stop pretending to dig her.
Hole has since disbanded, but I thank Courtney Love for my favorite social intercourse between a popular singer and a politician since Sinatra sang at the 1956 Democratic convention. At the end of the number, the Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, went up and put his arm around him, as politicians are wont to do. “Hands off the threads, creep,” snarled Frank, to the second most powerful man in Washington.
If you said “Name a song” to Obama, the pitiful thing is he’d probably be able to. But I would love to hear Jay-Z say “Hands off the threads, creep” to him.
In 1998, Al Gore would have been 50 years old himself, and it’s understandable that, despite his attempts at pandering, a man of his age wouldn’t be expected to know a young rock star’s oeuvre. But of course, far from saying “hands of the threads, creep,” Jay-Z friendship with Obama are the reason why the NFL is placed itself in a position where it’s having a Super Bowl halftime featuring a performer that a 20-something NFL players have never heard of:
FETTERMAN CALLS FOR VOTER ID:
BREAKING: Democratic Senator John Fetterman joins the Republicans and comes out in favor of requiring an ID to vote in every election across the country.
“I do not believe that it’s unreasonable to show an ID to vote.”
Fetterman is right once again. pic.twitter.com/UDX0NldnN4
— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) February 8, 2026
In accordance with the prophecy:
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