IT’S NOT SO MUCH LIKE SOLVING A PUZZLE: More like watching a train wreck, or one of those nightmares where you want to scream, but no sound comes out. Neo-neo con on Richard Fernandez and the puzzle of Barack Obama.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ EXAMINES: The Logic of Logistics.

SPEAKING OF BAD TASTE: Why is everybody trying to dress little girls like skanks for Halloween? I guess they’ll be ready for those all important slut walks of pseudo adulthood, or something.

WHATEVER YOU THINK OF THE EMBARGO, THIS LEAVES A BAD TASTE: President Obama’s threatened UN vote against America.

A FRIEND OF MINE SELF-IDENTIFIES AS AN M1 ABRAMS TANK: We’re almost sure he’s joking.  This woman wasn’t.  And found people to indulge her insanity. Woman Fulfills Lifelong Wish To Be Blind, Now Happier Than Ever.

THEY CAME FOR THE MAD SCIENTISTS: I said nothing, because I wasn’t a mad scientist.

A MOST EXCELLENT FISKING: Fisking 27 ways to be a modern man.

HARDER TO GUESS, MAKE YOU CRY MORE: Nihilistic Password
Security Questions.

A SHORT COURSE ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF WEASEL WORDS: Thoughts from the ammo line.

SPEAKING OF A THIN LINE BETWEEN CRIMINALS AND THE GOVERNMENT: Farming In Fear.

SOMETHING TO LOOK AT: And remember that once upon a time we could do big things.  Thousands of Photos by Apollo Astronauts now on Flickr.

ECHO HIS NAME FAR AND WIDE: Ignore the gunman who sought fame in the killings in Oregon.  Remember Chris Mintz, the hero who charged straight at him.

OKAY THEN: Homeland Security Detains Stockton Mayor, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords.

INTERESTING IF DEPRESSING: How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field? (During the cold war.)

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER: Son of the Black Sword, by Larry Correia.

PREDICTABLE RUSSIA IS PREDICTABLE: As Ted Cruz Predicted: PUTIN EYES ESTONIA – Signals Concern of Russian Minority.

THIS IS FUNNY: It’s dark humor, because I think this is how leftist think the world works, but it’s still funny.  Gun Free Zones.  (Video.)

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I TELL YOU:  Sanders’s vision would boost federal largesse — and control.  No, really, this is my shocked face.  Look how shocked I am.

THIS HOLDS NO TERRORS:  I’ve already been rated one of the world’s worst people, in a dispute over a plastic rocket and the meaning of good science fiction.  BUT isn’t it a nightmarish idea? Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not.

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES: Senators want EPA workers fired over mine spill.

MINORITY REPORT: Beria would be envious.

IRAN IS CONFUSED ABOUT THE MEANING OF “WOMEN”: Iranian Women’s Soccer Team a Manly Bunch . . . BUT did they identify as women at the time?

AND THIS IS WHY THEY HATE IT: This Is Why We Have the Internet.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU: Planned Parenthood: Salaries Up, Cancer Screenings Down.It’s almost like this whole “Woman’s health” thing is a barely there cover up.

HOW SYMBOLIC: Out with the old, in with the new.