It's been less than two weeks since we announced the return of the Mark Steyn Cruise. We're delighted to see so many new and returning cruisers sign up to join us on the Adriatic alongside folks like Bo Snerdley, Michele Bachmann, Eva Vlaardingerbroek and John O'Sullivan, and others. You can get all the details here.
Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark:
~The week began with a fiery Song of the Week to mark Guy Fawkes Night: "Light My Fire," first recorded by The Doors.
Mark continued his countdown to SteynOnline's twentieth birthday with an evergreen 2005 column about diversity being the death of nations.
Later Sunday, we shared another Mark Steyn Weekend Show special featuring Yasmine Mohammed on Islam and women.
~Monday's birthday observances brought us back to 2006, the year of America Alone's release, which was the subject of an interview Mark did then with Michelle Malkin for Hot Air.
Monday evening, Mark kicked off another week of telly hosting on GB News, tackling the big topics – such as "climate reparations" – with Lois Perry, Toby Young, Peter Tatchell, and David Starkey.
~On Tuesday, Mark dusted off a prescient 2007 piece about the loss of the war on terror.
On GB News Tuesday night, Mark checked in with Marc Morano live from the Sharm El-Sheikhdown, plus Laurence Fox on open borders, Jasmine Birtles on a bifurcated economy, and Jane Harris on the lockdown generation.
~It was still, somehow, election day by Wednesday, so Mark noted the dwindling hopes of a "red wave" coming to fruition.
Mark also took a look back at his post-2008 election observations, and how little the GOP has learned since.
Wednesday evening's GB News programme welcomed Kelvin MacKenzie and Patrick O'Flynn on migrants, Alexandra Marshall on the politics of climate, and Jamie Jenkins on those pesky "excess deaths."
~The twentieth birthday countdown kicked along Thursday with a pop back to 2009 and the brazen climate hypocrisy on display in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate conference.
Laura Rosen Cohen served up another batch of links Thursday morning on the red wave that wasn't, Canada's culture of death, and the "joys" of diversity, among other topics.
Mark closed out the GB News week by discussing the latest migrant mayhem with Leilani Dowding, plus Laura Perrins and Marc Morano on COP claptrap, Eva Vlaardingerbroek on choosing justice over amnesty, and David Campbell-Bannerman on selective permission.
~On Armistice Day/Remembrance Day/Veterans Day, Mark shared a 2010 interview with the Hoover Institution's Peter Robinson as part of the lead-up to SteynOnline's twentieth birthday.
Mark hosted another Clubland Q&A Friday, fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the world, mostly on America's rotten election system and related matters.
~The stroll through two decades of SteynOnline continued Saturday with a 2011 look at China's (still ongoing) rise.
Mark hosted another edition of The Hundred Years Ago Show, with the latest headlines (of November 1922), from the exile of an ex-sultan to election irregularities in Michigan to Japanese white privilege.
Finally, Rick McGinnis kept our Saturday night movie date with a screening of Elia Kazan's Wild River.
The Hundred Years Ago Show and The Mark Steyn Weekend Show are special productions for The Mark Steyn Club, now in its sixth year. If you'd like to join our ranks, we'd love to have you. And, if you have a chum who's partial to classic poems on video or classic fiction in audio, we also offer a special gift membership.
A new se'nnight at SteynOnline begins later this morning with a special edition of The Mark Steyn Show and continues with a very busy week ahead.