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

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

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.

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

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.

The horror, the horror.

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

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.

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.

Not yet, but working on it.

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.

Absolutely.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.