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

Sometimes Sunday comes on Monday.

STOPPING FRACKING WOULD HAVE WEAKENED AMERICA, AND THAT WAS THE GOAL:

It is the hydraulic fracturing scare all over again, often with the same protestors I saw in 2010.

Almost everything we do in our everyday lives is facilitated by a data power center just in the same way that almost everything we use every day requires natural gas.

So we need… https://t.co/zTR5FKmZ4p

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) August 10, 2026

WE SURE DID:  America Got ‘Faucied’.

VERY SOCIALIST:  Mamdani’s Anti-Rent Advisor Faces Eviction Over Four Years Of Unpaid Rent .

WELL – THAT’S PERSUASIVE:  Iran airs rare clip of supreme leader — but here’s why it does nothing to dispel dire health rumors.

LIKE NUCLEAR ENERGY, IT’S HERE AND WE’VE GOT TO GET USED TO IT:  AI: We Have Already Doomed Ourselves. The AI safety summits and government rulebooks are theatre. The machines that will replace us are already more clever than we are, and there’s no putting this genie back in the bottle

WE SHOULD THANK THEM. THEY VOLUNTEERED TO DEFEND US ALL:  Thank You For Your Service.

AND YET SHE MIGHT BE THE BEST THEY HAVE:  Former DNC Fundraiser: Major Democratic Donors are Done With Kamala Harris.

UM…. THE EARTH IS GETTING SPICY:  7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Devastates Western Colombia, Killing More Than 100.

THERE NEEDS TO BE A LOT OF NAME AND SHAME:  Who Hired the Ridiculous Jason Arday at Cambridge? I Have the Names.

WE NEED TO REINDUSTRIALIZE:  When will they learn?

UH. THIS IS GETTING WEIRD:  Taylor Farms recalls salsa, guacamole over salmonella fears after company linked to ‘explosive diarrhea’ outbreak.

FASTER PLEASE:  DHS reports over 1.4M illegal alien departures since January 2025.

UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS NOT LIMITED TO SCOTLAND:  It seems that the Scottish Government is willing to go right to the extent of the law and beyond in covering up its actions these days. Since it is judge and jury on itself between elections, it is hard to see how this situation can get any better.

JUST AS RACIST AS THOSE WHO DISCRIMINATE THE OTHER WAY:  The Racists Who Enabled Jason Arday. Can you say “soft bigotry of low expectations”.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

A WORKING SPACE PROBE THAT’S OLDER THAN MOST PEOPLE ALIVE: NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year.

AS ARTHUR C. CLARKE SAID, so far all consciousness is found in close proximity to a functioning brain. What if The Brain Doesn’t Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself.

STARLINK ADVANCES SCIENCE: Starlink Satellites Reveal a Hidden Atmosphere 300 Miles Above Earth.

ICYMI: WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP IT’S BEEN: Thoughts on the 25th Anniversary of InstaPundit.

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CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is This the Most Woke Movie Review … Ever?

Roger Ebert’s legendary status as America’s film critic is well earned.

He still let his progressive views seep into his signature thumb in his later years. That didn’t diminish his place in movie reviewing lore, nor his legacy.

A contributing critic for his self-named site has taken that progressive baton and run with it. Think “Chariots of Fire”-style running.

The review wastes no time getting to the ideological point.

“One Night Only” … is everything that’s troubling about the current conservative capitalist hellscape that is the United States of America writ large.

Ma’am, this is a rom-com review…

There’s so much more.

It makes nods to the very real horrors of today, like tech bro-backed surveillance capitalism, rampant Big Pharma advertisements, and fascist police and politicians controlling our bodies, without ever taking the time to interrogate any of the sources that have led to our current political climate.

If only “When Harry Met Sally…” had brought up the Iran-Contra scandal, it might have been a classic. Oh, well.

Of course, for the same critic, some “politicians controlling our bodies” are perfectly fine:

Ebert certainly became a huge leftwing crank in his later years on Twitter, but the vast majority of his movies reviews never went full Salon or Grauniad. Definitely read the whole thing.

I LIKE MUSCLE: Jeep’s Wildest Ever Grand Cherokee Is Set to Return With SRT Supercharged V-8 Muscle. After a long hiatus, Jeep’s quickest SUV is expected to return with Hellcat power and a modernized platform.

RESCUE MISSION FOR THE RESCUE MISSION: Katalyst Space makes progress in restoring control of Swift servicing spacecraft. “Katalyst said it was planning to upload a ‘significant flight software update’ in the coming days to allow for attitude control in the spacecraft’s current configuration. That will allow the company’s engineers to restore full attitude control of the spacecraft and resume plans to head toward NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.”