POINTS TO PONDER: Ammo Grrrll goes TIPTOEING (Past the Graveyard of Formerly Free Speech)

WORDS I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SAY: We need to be more like the French.

HOW ABOUT WE BAN MARXISM INSTEAD: Time to Ban Manliness?

BECAUSE COOL: Filmed in miniature – The models of Gerry Anderson’s UFO.

IT’S CRONYISM ALL THE WAY DOWN: New emails show breadth of Hillary Clinton’s network.

LIST LEFT AND DIE: The Death of “Wired”: Hugo Awards Edition.  What I’d like to know is what made our little backwater field, with a circulation that has decreased for decades so fascinating to so many publications who feel the need to establish the vileprog narrative on this little matter?  Is it that they thought they’d swallowed us whole and are amazed to see we’re not a wholly owned subsidiary of the Progressive Project TM?  In any case we have them in a hurry to speak Power to Truth.

INDIE AUTHORS HALLOWEEN SALE:ConVent (The Vampire Con Series Book 1).

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ANNOYS ABOUT LAMENTS OVER EXTINCTIONS: Is the lack of understanding that they always went on, before humans.  That species dying and being born is just what happens.  (The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo used to drive me nuts with a graveyard of extinct species which included the T-Rex, and a mirror with the smug inscription “You are looking at the only animal to cause extinctions of other animals.”  We had to avoid that area of the zoo because my husband gets embarrassed when I start yelling in public.)  So, I find this article fascinating.  Greater than the sum of its parts.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: This Is Why You Hate the Sound of Your Own Voice on Recordings.  Maybe.  In my case, it’s because some prankster adds an accent to my recorded speech every dang time.  You’d think the joke would get old, but inexplicably it just goes on.

GOOD: Japanese Researchers Make Glass That’s Nearly Unbreakable.

INDIE AUTHORS HALLOWEEN SALE: Fenrir Reborn.

TIGHT LIGHT: Scientists can now “squeeze” light, a breakthrough that could make computers millions of times faster.

PEOPLE ARE WEALTH: That’s the truth, the idea they’re drains is a fairytale of bitter Marxists. China’s Demographic Catastrophe.

THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A WHILE: The Commerce Department’s GDP numbers don’t make any sense.

HAPPY HOYTLOWEEN: My family has a bunch of free short stories out this week.  RatsKiller from older son, Neighborhood Bark-b-Q from husband, and The Blood Like Wine and Something Worse Hereafter from yours truly. You know what they say: the family that writes together… mostly says to each other “What are you doing in my office? Don’t you have a book to write?”

I’M FOR LEGALIZATION AS THE LEAST OF TWO EVILS: But I thought everyone knew “medical marijuana” was a scam?

BEATS NAMING THEM AFTER POLITICIANS: A new class of ships honors American heroes of Afghanistan & Iraq.

GREAT FUN: Automechanics Recreate Classical Paintings In Their Garage.

NEWS FROM THE WAR ON WOMEN: The best jobs for balancing work and life.

AH, SMOD, STILL YOU DISAPPOINT US: WATCH LIVE SATURDAY: Slooh’s ‘Spooky’ Halloween Asteroid Webcast.

INDIE AUTHORS HALLOWEEN SALE: Empire of the One.

HE LIES, SHE LIES: Or as my mom would say “Between the two of them, may the devil come and choose.” Spitzer: I buried plan to give illegal immigrants licenses to help Hillary.

PAJAMA BOY TO THE RESCUE: Uber Douche Wants New Type of Hero.

KIND OF COOL, BUT I WANT THE OTHER KIND: Star Ships: New Sciences Cruises Offer Pristine Cosmic Views.

GOVERNMENT BY FRAUD: Did Federal Agency Commit Climate Fraud? Sure Looks Like It.