ANOTHER GANGSTER PARADISE: Interesting Times: The Syria Sednaya Prison

DON’T GO AWAY MAD. JUST GO AWAY: Kamala, Remenber Dan Quayle?

PLANETS I PROMISED, PLANETS YOU GET. LOTS AND LOTS OF PLANETS [VIP]:Sky Candy and the Planets: It’s Complicated.

WHAT IF THEY’RE ACTUALLY DOING WHAT THEY THINK WE WANT? Memo to Elon and Vivek: What Are The Incentives That Drive Inefficient Government?

CLEANUP ON AISLE DAMASCUS: Interesting Times: Assad’s Gestapo Didn’t Clean Up Before They Fled.

THIS WEEK’S SKY CANDY IS ALL ABOUT THE PRETTY STUFF [VIP]: Sky Candy: Just The Sweets.

Sorry, forgot to mark it.

HOW TO BECOME A WRITER. AGAIN:The Problem With Inspiration

This is at Sarah Hoyt’s Mad Genius Club, a worthy blog for anyone interested in writing.

THE BEST THING IN ASTRONOMY RECENTLY IS WHAT WE CAN’T SEE [VIP]: Sky Candy: What You See Depends On How You See.

[VIP] DOES THE GOVERNMENT KNOW WHAT IT’S DOING? A Memo to Messieurs Musk and Ramaswamy.

SPECIAL STARSHIP EDITION: Friday Sky Candy.

Yeah, it’s VIP, I forgot.

I did title it Sky Candy. Just got it wrong here. I’ve got to have a talk with the editor…

WE LIVE IN ROBERT HEINLEIN’S WORLD: Elon Musk Wants to Save the World — and More.

ITS A PUZZLEMENT: Undersea Cables and Natural Gas Pipelines: A Bunch of Odd Coincidences in the Baltic

AFTER ANOTHER PEACEFUL REVOLUTION: We Are Living in Interesting Times.

A LESSON FOR EVERYONE[VIP]:What Government CAN’T Do IS As Important As What It CAN

I REALLY LIKED USING THE WORD “ERUCTATION” THIS TIME [VIP]: Eye Candy in Honor of the Gassiest Week in the News

INSTEAD OF ASSUMING TRUMP IS A FOOL, ASK YOURSELF WHAT IF HE’S SMART [VIP]: What comes next?

[VIP] IF THEY CAN DO IT FOR YOU, THEY CAN DO IT TO YOU: The Lesson of Robespierre

I NEED SOME [VIP] JOHN PHILLIP SOUSA MUSIC HERE: Post-Election Statue of Liberty Eye Candy.

“I HATE THE ARISTOCRATICY, MAN” [VIP]: Well-Designed Systems Self-Correct

(Not very classical reference here,)

IT DOESN’T NEED AN OVERT CONSPIRACY: An Election Denial of Service Is More Insidious Than Outright Fraud

A BREAK FROM THE ELECTION DOOMSCROLLING [VIP]: Social Media Is Not All DOOM

WHY A DOG LIES IN THE SUN, LICKING…: ‘Because He Can.’

Something must be done about “qualified immunity.”

THE ROOT OF TRUMP DERANGEMENT [VIP]:‘But Dear — He’s Just Not Our Kind!’

I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY SPACE PORN ANYMORE: lest the prigs at Google demonetize the site. So here is Pre-Election Astronomical Eye-Candy

A VIP article.

STAR PICTURES ARE COOL [VIP]: GOLDEN AGE OF SPACE PORN.