My dad spent his career writing about the American West he loved. My kids wanted books about dragons. So my first book, Dub and the Dragon, is a family affair: a girl and her brother on the frontier find a baby dragon and protect him from outlaws. For readers 9–12.

Press secretaries are the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers. The Curse of the Scaramucci.

You can pay $12 a month for access to Kindle Unlimited, with books coming out your ears for years to come. We live in an age of wonders.

There’s a weird synergy about objective value among the four very different books I’m reading this week: Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood (early US history) The Abolition of Man, CS Lewis (moral philosophy) Protocols, Andrew Huberman (health) A Parade of Horribles, Matt Dinniman (LitRPG)

I generally don’t like weaponizing scripture to validate political views, but it is funny that many who do so forget that the Bible repeatedly uses the figure of the tax collector as an archetype of the worst type of scum imaginable.

There's some serious hyperinflation hitting the tooth fairy industry.

Limiting it to 9 felt like an act of violence.

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.” -Terry Pratchett

Look, our government's got issues, but it's still head and shoulders above the Ministry of Magic. No separation of powers, big bumbling bureaucracy filled with an ossified civil service, no real republican representation, and a court system utterly bereft of due process.

You can buy it on Amazon here: amazon.com/Dub-Dragon-Lightn…

Why yes, I did create a playlist with just the Masters of the Universe theme song so I can loop it all day. Building the intellectual case for freedom is epic, and it deserves epic background music, okay?