Author Kyle Mills has done more than an admirable job taking over the Mitch Rapp series after the unfortunate early death of one of my favorite authors, Vince Flynn. I do think that the character of Mitch Rapp has changed slightly, but that is not a negative thing, just a bit different. In Enemy of the State, 
Leviathan Wakes 
Thanks to the good folks at I Hate the Media for sharing this article from The Hill. It’s by Kurt Schlichter and is a treatise on how we conservatives/libertarians are now “woke” to the shenanigans (e.g. outright lies) of Republicans that we elect.
Curse of the Woke Conservatives
Click on the title to read the article. A little taste;
I have been a fan of the television show Always Sunny in Philadelphia though I have not seen it recently. The show is extremely “non-PC” to the point of being offensive in many ways…though still funny as edgy comedy used to be. I’m actually not sure how they get away with some of the stuff they do. When I saw that the “cast” had written a self-help book, I thought that it had to be funny. Eh…not so much even though the title is great; The 7 Secrets of Awakening the Highly Effective Four-Hour Giant, Today
Author Charles Sevilla has compiled a collection of humorous events from the courtroom in Law and Disorder: Absurdly Funny Moments from the Courts.
As I read through the book I wondered whether use of the descriptive “absurdly funny” was apt. While there are many funny moments, this is not an absurdly funny book. Here are two of my favorites;
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin is a wonderful story about a crotchety old widower who owns a book store on a small touristy island. A series of events happens to Mr. Fikry and suddenly he’s not all that old and perhaps not so crotchety.Â
“He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it’s love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother. It’s completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.”
In Invitation to Murder
