Indian Phone Scammers: Will hits Back!

Good morning, Stroock's Books readership, what's left of it. 

A lot of tossing and turning last night and the knee is bothering us this morning except for when it isn't. Weird. We will, repeat will, be hitting the gym.

Yesterday, after the 15th phone call from Indian telemarketer scammers, we rang the Indian Mission to the UN and demanded to know why they can't stop this infernal nuisance.  The Indian mission replied, 'We don't have any information on that, sir,' and hung up. [I bet they did-Ed].

We got some blessed rain last night and more is expected tonight. Which is most excellent. Reservoir levels are still at about 70 percent capacity. USA Today has a good article about the state of New Jersey reservoirs. We're nowhere near drought conditions, but we need a lot of rain to restore reservoirs to historical levels. Huh, dishwashers use less water than handwashing dishes. Who knew?

JNS has a good piece by Jonathan Tobin about Jewish liberals being stuck in the past and assuming the right is antisemitic, morons. The late Kathy Shaidle used to call these people 'official Jews'*. Yes, we've known since our DC days in the 90's that the right is pro-Israel. We'd meet young conservatives from the south who were fascinated by our Jewishness (such as it was) and reflexively supported Israel. 'Well, duh,' usually began their explanation. 'Why wouldn't a Christian support Israel?'

Tobin also talks about the 'woke right', which we're not sure is a thing, mentioning Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. Carlson retreated to his woodland Maine stronghold and has gotten a little weird. We don't know what Owen's excuse is, other then working with Ben Shapiro with whom she had a falling out. There is certainly an anti-Israel element rising within the online right. It seems related to America First foreign policy, in which one argues, 'If we shouldn't support Ukraine then we shouldn't support Israel.' This argument may not right but it has a certain logic. 

Thursday anti-downer and downer: Let's get something straight. We've kept a blog going for a decade, published dozens of magazine articles, hundreds of online magazine pieces and 22 novels and two histories. One might say one is actually pretty good at this writing thing, now wouldn't one? 

Meanwhile Steve Sailer quotes Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, 'For twenty-five years, I was contracted to produce three articles a year, long ones, typically ten thousand words. For this, my peak salary was $498,141...' The good old days indeed. 

There's a reason (498,141 reasons above) why we no longer write military history magazine articles and chase down online magazine editors, 'You want an 800 word piece on the Current Thing?' [Other then one of them being sanctioned by the Feds, he means-Ed]. Those gigs have taken us as far as those gigs can take us. And one must admit that one is thinking that novel writing has taken one as far as one can go, now mustn't one? [He's not kidding -Ed]. We see no way to grow. 

*Or is that Ezra Levant, who is fortunately still alive?