LAURA MONTGOMERY: No Longer A Mystery.

MOTHER OF INVENTION: These young boys couldn’t afford Pokémon cards, so they designed their own – and they’re amazing.

DOUBLE STANDARDS: Why is it sexist when a man flirts with a female interviewer but hilarious when the roles are reversed?

RED DIAPERS: Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists by David Aaronovitch, review: ‘gripping’.

J. M. NEY-GRIMM: Winter Glory.

AND THEY DON’T EVEN WAIT TILL 3 AM: Obama’s foreign-policy hell: The 1980s just won’t stop calling.

WE’RE NOT RENTERS.  THIS LAND IS MY LAND: Mrs. Clinton’s Ode to Serfdom.

Terry Shumaker, former U.S. ambassador to Trinidad (I wonder what that gig cost him) and current abject minion in the service of Mrs. Clinton, quotes Herself telling an audience in New Hampshire: “Service is the rent we pay for living in this great country.”

SOMETHING NICE AROUND HERE: Denver Celebrates Broncos’ win.  (And no, I’m not out in the middle of that.  I’m not that young, if indeed I ever was.)