JD Salinger had an early draft of The Catcher in the Rye in his bag with him when he took part in the Normandy Landings  in 1944. 

John Steinbeck’s original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten by a dog.

Carrie, Stephen King’s debut novel, was fished out of his trash bin by his wife after he originally discarded it.

Despite popular belief, there are not 1,001 stories in the Arabian Nights collection. The 900 or so stories instead were said to have originally been read over 1,001 nights.

In an early version of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” the bird that repeatedly croaks “nevermore” was going to be a parrot. A meeting with Charles Dickens convinced Poe to change his mind, as Dickens had a pet raven at the time.

Bibliosmia is the name given to the scent of old books.

Harry Potter creator, JK Rowling, is popularly said to be the first author in history to make $1 billion from book sales alone.

Ray Bradbury’s original title for his classic novel Fahrenheit 451 was The Fireman.

Jane Austen’s original title for Pride and Prejudice was First Impressions.

I can resist anything  except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

Trump plans to rebrand ICE.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/05/05/trump-just-gave-us-a-look-into-the-ice-rebrand-n2675588

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What a poor excuse for a judge.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/05/04/wait-a-judge-did-what-to-the-guy-who-tried-to-assassinate-trump-n2675515

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Baby Dangerfield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWK5TzbAWw0

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Lock her up.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/02/us-news/ilhan-omars-name-came-up-6-times-in-resurfaced-trial-exhibits-from-feeding-our-future-fraud-case/

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What a joke.   The Democrats and Hollywood types are the biggest dividers in America.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/03/mallory-mcmorrow-interview-n2201954

 

The Trump Ballroom.

https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/05/01/this-is-the-real-reason-the-democrats-hate-president-trumps-ballroom-n4952410

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Other than replacing the Socialist-Democrats the one thing to do is keep Federal Taxpayer Money away from them.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/05/ahmed-abdullah-osman-seattle-cctv-refugees-n2675546

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/02/reporter-asks-seattle-mayor-a-question-n2201928

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The Democrats and media say, there are no problems with voting security.   

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/05/01/west-coast-messed-coast-suddenly-stealing-elections-just-became-much-much-harder-n4952401

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McDonald’s is ending self-service sodas.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/business/mcdonalds-is-quietly-ditching-a-popular-in-store-feature-nationwide/

Their biggest rival is closing 700 locations.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/05/business/mcdonalds-biggest-us-rival-shutters-over-700-restaurants/

Bezos is selling his mega-yacht.

https://pagesix.com/2026/05/04/celebrity-news/jeff-bezos-is-selling-his-500-million-superyacht-koru/?_gl=1*6g4omp*_ga*NTg1MzMxMTkyLjE3NzIyMTkxMjU.*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*czE3Nzc4OTY4Njgkbzg2JGcxJHQxNzc3ODk4MTkwJGo1OSRsMCRoMA

Give the family guy a medal.   Some people are learning to lock their cars when they are inside.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/05/05/alleged-carjacker-shot-dead-by-father-while-trying-to-steal-vehicle-with-family-inside/

A good policy.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/05/05/trump-just-brought-back-a-major-initiative-that-obama-killed-n2675586

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The Science Editor:   What is up, LL ?

The Maybe Cat:    I guess it means ‘above something else’.    Here is what Webster says.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/up

This is for reference only.

https://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/grammar/parts_of_speech.html

As an adverb it could mean–the sun came up or sit up.

As an adjective it might mean the corn is up.

I always liked ‘liquored up’ in Westerns, before the mob stormed the jail.

A great adverb is ‘uptown’.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=uptown+girl+song+billy+joel#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ab4c7cb2,vid:xUZ2TYsEM5Y,st:0

Downtown is a good song, but most cities have lost the ‘downtown’ excitement to other places.

Be careful.

https://theonion.com/report-you-probably-due-to-experience-big-life-tragedy-soon-sub-its-been-a-while/

https://www.bbc.com/news/england/london

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Trump is the man.

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-enters-ceasefire-talks-with-democrats

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