Absorbed in political calculations, she walked into the bedroom – and there he was. Stretched out naked on the carefully turned-down bed with a glass of wine in his hand and his red cloak draped with minutely calculated carelessness over his loins, the quintessence of bucko insouciance.

“The Pink and Blue War,” said the computer voice. “Pacifican vernacular for the ideological and political conflict between Transcendental Science and Femocracy. Vectors: Transcendental Science Arkologies, four known Femocrat interstellar missions, Web propaganda. Avowed Femocrat goal: the establishment of Femocratic social systems on all human worlds. Analyzed Femocrat goal: same. Avowed Transcendental Science goal: dissemination of advanced science and technology to all human worlds. Analyzed Transcendental Science goal: establishment of a unified Transcendental Science dominion over all human worlds through Institutes of Transcendental Science. Cause of conflict: mutually incompatible political goals. Current status: four solar systems converted to Femocracy, six solar systems dominated by Institutes of Transcendental Science, thirty-nine neutral. Vector analysis: Web propaganda ineffective, maximum result, Femocrat political parties on twelve planets. Known Femocrat missions: 100 percent effective. Known Transcendental Science missions: 100 percent effective.

Boris Johnson wants democracy. In the course of his adventures he discovers that democracy to him means freedom. It’s a banned concept from the Millennium of Religion.

Suppose we have two independent people, aware of their own independence, but not of their common nature as aspects of one universal Mind.

It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.

The researchers observed 105 squirrel masturbation sessions in total.

Amusingly, this was the piece that dragged me into the rather tiresome skirmishes with the West Coast Straussians during the Crunchy Wars, which was then followed by an even more tiresome argument with those people after I mentioned that Claes Ryn had figuratively given the Jaffa-style Straussian reading of “the Founding” a good swift kick to the ribs in a speech at last year’s Philadelphia Society meeting.

Described by lead vocalist Groovie Mann as their “sexy” album, Sexplosion! is one of the band’s biggest commercial and critical successes.

Depth, genius, imagination, taste, reason, sensibility, philosophy, elevation, originality, nature, intellect, fancy, rectitude, facility, flexibility, precision, art, abundance, variety, fertility, warmth, magic, charm, grace, force, an eagle’s sweep of vision, vast understanding, rich instruction, excellent tone, urbanity, vivacity, delicacy, correctness, purity, clearness, elegance, harmony, brilliancy, rapidity, gaiety, pathos, sublimity, universality, perfection, indeed – behold Voltaire.

She has a mission to stop ISIS and to gather as many melons as she can.