The Writer's Life 12/3 - Short Stuff

In an op-ed piece in today's NY Post, David Harsanyi tackles what he perceives is the bias  organizations practice in recording violent attacks political in nature. One of his analogies was particularly eye-opening: "Fewer people were killed by terrorists of any stripe in the US than were killed by illegal immigrants in Texas alone..."

According to USA Today, there are at least 77 border walls worldwide.

According to a BVA poll, France's President Macron, darling of the left, has an approval rating of 26%. Harris has Trump at 46%. Gallup has Congress at 21%.

Texans were calling 911, concerned about a man dangling from the roof of a house, not knowing it was a dummy, homage to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989). It prompted the owners to put up a sign: "Clark G is part of our Christmas display please do not call 911." Here's a pic:

I just watched the highlights of last night's game between the Steelers and Chargers. The latter have confounded their fans for years, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory so many times. They won at Pittsburgh, the beneficiaries of enormous luck. The Steelers missed a short field goal. The officials missed an obvious off-side by the Chargers' RT on a TD bomb. The Chargers scored on a deflection when two Steelers defenders ran into each other on a pass that should have been intercepted. And the Chargers kicked the winning field goal on a third try, as Pittsburgh was off-side on the first two attempts, a miss and a block. Could this be the year? I still doubt them.

My thanks to the elderly Latina who bought Allison Brennan's Stolen, and to the woman who purchased two novels in Russian.

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