THEY SHOULD: CNN worries Hilary Clinton may have jeopardized run with gun control statements.  Another thing they should worry about is that their preferred candidates can only win if they lie about their beliefs.  Maybe, contra-Marx the people aren’t with you?  And you’re the ones standing athwart history yelling ‘stop’?

UNEXPECTEDLY: This Simple Graph Compares Reagan’s and Obama’s ‘Recoveries’. All the people I know who are in business for themselves already know this in their guts (and in their bottom line.)

SPIDERS: Victorian strangeness: The man driven mad by spiders.

THE HORROR, THE HORROR: Fur flies over 16th century “Rocket Cats” warfare.

WE’RE SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Dog Bites Man: Russians Fake Election. Did I say shocked?  Yeah.  Shocked.

IN VAIN THEY STRUGGLE: The Times struggles to keep on propagandizing in the face of the harsh realities of Obama’s foreign policy.  Never underestimate a progressive publication’s ability to drink its own ink and believe its own lies.

BECAUSE HUMANS AREN’T WIRED TO FUNCTION ON LOGIC ALONE: Why Myth Matters.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH INEQUALITY:  I might have mentioned I’m getting fed up with this “inequality crisis” stuff.  Turns out you’re not crazy, you really have been hearing the word a lot more. And I really am very fed up with it.

TAR, FEATHERS: EPA accused of tolerating rampant employee misconduct, obstructing probes.

DO THE KOCH BROTHERS KNOW: Nobody tell Harry Reid. US-China shale gas rivalry bad news for poor countries. I love that headline, btw.  “More energy sources, third world countries suffer.”  Do they realize that in an industrial civilization cheaper energy lifts all boats?

HE PROCLAIMED HIS INNOCENCE. AND PLAYED THE RACE CARD: NYC Councilman Ruben Wills arrested.

“I am not resigning on charges. This is America, people. We are presumed innocent before we are proven guilty,” he said. “But because I know what I am, where I come from and the color I am, it doesn’t really work like that with you guys. But I am presumed innocent and that’s what we are going with.”

Funny.  He considers our justice system guilty (of racism) with no presumption of innocence.

A WEIGHTY FIND: Scientists crown world heavyweight champion of dinosaurs. (You’ll have to pardon the pun.  The little girl I once was is squeeing in the back of my mind.)

WEIRD SCIENCE: Scientists Create 1st Living Organism From Artificial DNA.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Students Remember Lectures Better Taking Notes Longhand Than Using Laptops.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor Teaching Class on “Obama Phenomenon” Threatened to Kill Ted Cruz Supporting Students.

OF COURSE HE DOES: FEC chair warns that conservative media like Drudge Report and Sean Hannity face regulation — like PACs.

WHEN YOU REJECT WESTERN INFLUENCE: Who’s to Blame for Global Polio Emergency?

NOT TOO BIG TO FAIL: In Great Britain Bank must burst housing bubble. Here the bubble was never even fully corrected but it hasn’t fully re-inflated either.

WHAT WILL HISTORY SAY: Pam Geller and Robert Spencer as Andy Rooney.

THIS DEPICTION OF ME AS A SUPER VILLAIN: Is by far the funniest way I’ve ever been thanked (?) for linky-love.  So, even though I don’t always agree with John C. Wright, go and take a look at his non-fiction book. (He is always worth it, as a word-smith.) While you’re at it, check out my friend Kate Paulk’s Con books — irresistible if you’re a science fiction fan.  Also, Kate is the other half of the world’s most evil person.  (I believe to deserve this we pointed out that SFWA should not be in the ideology-policing business. Which makes us worse than Caligula.)  Yes, I know, Kate needs better covers.  It’s actually on my to-do list. You could also do worse than checking out Dave Freer, a very good friend. Dave Freer is the originator of the saying “The Americans are terrible imperialists.  All they want to do is go home.”  He’s a newly-minted Australian — from South Africa — and this is his blog.

IT’S NOT SCIENCE.  IT’S A CHEAP CHINESE RESTAURANT: Let’s Call It ‘Climate Disruption,’ White House Science Adviser Suggests (Again).  Like liberalism, socialism, progressivism, this things keeps changing names when people catch on.  Also, and for the record “climate disruption” was something all my New Agey friends talked about back in the nineties.  If Al Gore starts chanting Age of Aquarius, I’m going to really freak out.

HAVING UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS RULE YOU FROM FAR AWAY IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA: UK anger over ‘secret’ EU financial transaction tax plan.

MAYBE IT WASN’T A WITCH HUNT: Could It Be that J Edgar Hoover Wasn’t as Paranoid — or as Despotic — as the Former FBI Director Is Commonly Depicted?

FROM L NEIL SMITH:a request for help for a production of 1776 which is one of my favorite musicals.  (And touchstones — regular commenters at According to Hoyt often tell me to “Sit down, John.”)

Help Independency Productions take the best stance we can against the onrush of statism, and turn the 21st century into the century of the Bill of Rights, by financially supporting our production, this June, of the musical comedy/drama _1776_, directed by Giovanni Angelo Martelli. Donate via PayPal at or if you prefer, send checks and money orders to Rylla Cathryn Smith, 736 Eastdale Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80524. All contributions gratefully received.

DREAM MACHINES: The concept cars that helped shape the future.