Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.

Happy Sunday, dear friends! Did you dodge April 1st pranks? Well, good for you! Extra champagne your way in celebration. Another wild week, one in which the shrieking (and the violence) from the Left was on full display. I guess they’ve all given up edibles for Lent, eh? Here, let me pass the platter of bacon, help yourself to the pastries and let’s contemplate how the veil has fallen and the Left’s lying, threatening, cheating, astroturfing, grifting ways are now Full Monty. And the ugliness is something to behold. Let’s get to it, dears. To more winning faster! L’Chaim!

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On message for 37 years

Is the current moment ‘painful’? Yep. But I’m old enough to remember the pain that had to be inflicted against the stagflation of the Carter era by Reagan. I was a young married mom looking to buy a home in 1982 when mortgage interest rates were 16%. (we bought in 83 when they were down to just under 13). But 1980’s 13% inflation dropped to 6% in 83, then to 1.9 in 86.

Sometimes, you have to grit your teeth when the bandaid is ripped off.

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Who’s the fascist here?

Oh, the irony.

BREAKING: Student gets triggered by peaceful @StudentsforLife women & destroys their table at UNC Asheville.

When facts fail, the Left resorts to violence. pic.twitter.com/mc9JwnrFU2

— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) March 24, 2025

The student’s name is Adrian Miguelez. As all the kool kids on social media are saying now, make him famous!

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“My stealing is a moral good!”

In the 18 years I worked in a DA office, and the tens of thousands of case files, police reports and rapsheets I reviewed, I’ve seen all sorts of excuses offered for criminal behavior … (aside: my favorite is the oft-offered line when someone is discovered during a patdown with illegal drugs in their pocket — “these aren’t my pants!” Heh) … stealing from Whole Foods in order to “punish Bezos” makes my eyes roll so hard I think I cramped something.

From about 2020 to 2022, Lee, a 20-something communications professional living in the Washington, DC, area, engaged in what he describes as “grand theft auto-ing” from his local Whole Foods store. He would cheat the scale at the hot bar, pocket spices, or take home four lemons in the self-checkout aisle while only declaring two. Lee has never shoplifted from anywhere else — not Safeway, not a local store. He’s largely stopped taking from Whole Foods because he moved to a different neighborhood that doesn’t have one. However, he told me, there’s one by his gym he’ll pop into — and steal from — from time to time.

Lee has weighed the ethics of what he’s doing. At one point, the guilt got to be so much that he confessed his misdeeds to his mother. Once he explained his reasoning — Amazon’s market power, Bezos’ wealth, what the billionaire has done at The Washington Post — she came around.

“If a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off the top, too,” Lee says.

Oh for the love of … IF I accept Lee’s “I convinced my mom” equine excrement (and Lee’s humble-brag about committing petty theft makes him an unreliable narrator) then “mom” should be prosecuted, too, for raising such a moral cretin.

We either have a high-trust society dominated by people who hold Judeo-Christian, Western Civilization principles or we sink into a dysfunctional culture where retail businesses have to lock-up all manner of goods behind plexiglass doors and normal shopping goes away.

Oh…wait…

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“He’s a moral assassin!”

Sunny Hostin, who has made excuses for Luigi Mangione's assassination of United Healthcare's Brian Thompson, whines about Pam Bondi seeking the death penalty:
"This is unusual…it just seems like an assault on the process for me. It just seems like the attorney general is acting… pic.twitter.com/8QJfr4MQ1E

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 2, 2025

That ‘high-trust’ culture I just referenced? It wouldn’t include excusing premeditated murders cuz politics.

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The Left really is the Party of Death

Kim Leadbeater claims that convincing a loved one not to take their own life is ‘coercion’. Seriously? pic.twitter.com/XBWMmQbMxE

— Right To Life UK (@RightToLifeUK) March 28, 2025

Don’t think it’s just the UK. The American Left isn’t any better, as I’ve written about in the last 15 years. Being able to ‘off’ inconvenient individuals — unborn, disabled or elderly – is the foundation of a nationalized healthcare system. Nothing makes the Grand Poobahs of the Left happier.

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This Sunday, laugh and don’t be sorry

Dude brought a retard finder to an anti-Elon protest

pic.twitter.com/6pZK7c052J

— Clown World ™ (@ClownWorld_) April 4, 2025

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Your Sunday smile

As any parent knows, young children will have one special toy they cherish with a fierceness like no other. And if that toy is lost, through accident or something like the devestation of a natural disaster, the loss only compounds the sadness and isolation the child is feeling. A mom of two daughters saw a need for the girls who survived Hurricane Helene and stepped up to do something.

Angela Tilsher knew right away there would be a need. Despite having no ties to the Carolinas herself, when she saw the destruction, she knew she had to find a way to help.

“It’s widespread, all of it, so the fastest way I could think of was, we’re going to send a doll,” Angela said.

As a mom of two daughters, Angela knows the power a doll can have. Knowing how much her own daughters love their American Girl Dolls, Angela came up with a spin on the name, and the Appalachian Girl Doll was born.

Brava, ladies! And applause for everyone who donated a doll to the cause.

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Uh oh! Look at the clock. Our brunch time together has come to a close. Next Sunday is the start of Holy Week. Hold your family and friends close, this year is moving fast and it’s only going to get bumpier. We have faith and each other. See you next week, friends. Cheers!

featured image original graphic by Darleen Click