Hot off the keyboard, a new Junior Bender novel, RIM SHOT, set during the final days of the worst oldies rock tour in history. The title refers to a drummer (the book begins with a drummer) hitting the drum's metallic rim rather than the head. Don't know anything re: pub date.

Hoo hoo -- second anti-plague shot and it was a piece of cake. Someone asked me this morning which arm they'd used, and I had to think about it.

Done at last: the eighth (!) Junior Bender book. Who'da thought? Don't have a release date yet.

I wish this were a happier nation but I don't know how it's going to change. We can't even agree to wear a fucking mask. Seems to me we have two completely different Americas at this point.

El Assholio Grande is going to pardon everyone who could have testified against him. He just started with Michael Flynn.

For El Scroogo-s final White House Christmas, I think we should all send him a lump of coal.

When I think back on you -- and I will try not to -- it's your room-melting smile I'll remember.

People keep asking how the Republicans can rally behind Trump. They'd rally behind Torquemada if he could deliver the White House. At this point for the Republican leadership, ethics are a quaint and potentially counterproductive notion.

Absolutely.

Your best guess: Now that the writing is FINALLY on the White House wall, how long will Fat Donnie and Melanoma remain together? Maybe he could buy her a new rose garden to destroy.

Not yet, but working on it.

One of mine, too. I just reread both trilogies and was amazed at how fresh they seemed -- just as good as the first time I read them.

If Presiden Hump keeps his word to see that Biden begins to receive the President's Daily Briefing, we'll at least know that someone is actually reading it.

Who's read Robertson Davies lately, and what did you think? Also, which books?

The horror, the horror.

Trump's current medical puppy, Dr. Scott Atlas, has been roasted by Stanford University for telling the people of Michigan to "rise up" against the new COVID guidelines issued by the state's governor. Another Trump Bullshit artist. What a bunch of dwarves.

It's funny, but I cant recall a single contestant on "The Apprentice" who refused to be fired.

Wonderful book about a time when the country was run by at least some people whose world was larger than their mirror; the battle between Truman and General Macarthur.

Is it just me, or does this year have a really low IQ?

Bye-bye Bankok - the 9th and final novel in my Poke Rafferty series of Bangkok thrillers is out -- STREET MUSIC.