NEW FROM PAM UPHOFF:   Flying (Wine of the Gods Book 33).

YEAH.  I’M SURE JAMES PATTERSON IS SIMPLY TAKING DICTATION AND CLEARING UP MINOR INCONSISTENCIES:  Bill Clinton’s upcoming thriller novel being turned into TV series.  The question of the year is: why are people still trying so hard to bribe the Clintons?  (Also, on the missing president, if this was written with Clinton’s help, has anyone checked under the desk?)

I’D BEEN ASSURED THERE WOULD BE ALIENS:  Archaeologists solve the mystery of the Great Pyramid.

REFRESHING:   Hit Episode No. 42 — Bruce Campbell.

ONLY ONE?  The Problem with Plame.

HURRAY FOR VILLANUEVA:   Steelers Player And Army Veteran Alejandro Villanueva Stands Alone For The National Anthem.

AND WHY SHOULD WE LET YOU HAVE IT? What Do You Want?

NOT THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THIS TYPE OF THING:  Voter fraud in the US – an anecdote.  Motor-voter is an idiocy only a fraudster could love.

AH, THE HIGH CULTURE.  AND BY HIGH WE MEAN THEY HAVE SOME AMAZING OXACAN DITCHWEED.  AND THEY AIN’T SHARING:  Establishment Art Institutions Aren’t Worth a Bucket of Spit, But They Will Subsidize One.

SCARY BEYOND ALL REASON:   Prehistoric ‘devil toads’ with Pac-Man mouths ate dinosaurs.

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED:  Princeton’s campus newspaper disbands editorial board after string of right-leaning opinions.

SO WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE SEXLESS, PAINTED ROBOTS?   The rise of genderless beauty.  I think this is once again a case of an industry — cosmetics — seeking a minuscule buying public in the name of social justice… or something.  Also, the left’s provincialism and historical ignorance strikes again.  I mean, seriously, what about using cosmetics means you’re gender fluid?  All the manly men of the Elizabethan age wore cosmetics.  I wouldn’t mind these self-proclaimed intellectual elites half as much if they weren’t ignorant nincompoops.

ONE PERSON’S HARMFUL IS ANOTHER PERSON’S REALISTIC:  10-year-old kids around the world already know harmful gender stereotypes.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO… AW HECK, JUST LOCK THIS COW AWAY:  Teacher allegedly slept with 4 teen students, 2 in same night.

THE MORE REPUGNANT PART OF THIS WOULD NOT BE THAT THEY’RE CORRUPT, BUT THAT THEY’RE STUPID:  The FBI Still Stonewalling.

AT LEAST SOME STUPIDITY IS NOT ETERNAL:  Obama’s “Dear Colleague” Demand for No-Due-Process Rape Courts Rescinded.

BUT… BUT MUH TRIGGERS:  Banana Peels and Cotton Bolls and Free Speech, Oh My!

MUELLER’S RABBIT HOLE:  Tapped Out: The Manafort Mess.

AND YET THEY PERSISTED: Fannish Miscellany: Podcast #6/Diversity & Comics/SJB’s Against Aspirational Storytelling.

SOUNDS LIKE FAKE NEWS TO ME!  People who say they trust their gut are more likely to fall for fake news.

YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED:  Internet <3 Censorship?

FORTUNATELY THEY’RE DESTROYING THEIR OWN CREDIBILITY:  The National Nervous Breakdown, and How to Exploit it Ruthlessly.

THE URGENCY OF DOING SOMETHING BEFORE WE’RE CERTAIN IS APPARENTLY NOT URGENT AS THEY URGENTLY THOUGHT:  Climate change not as threatening to planet as previously thought, new research suggests.

PROTECTING YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS:  Why Firearm Preemption Laws Are Smart Policy.

ENABLING IS NOT KINDNESS:  Pain is a Teacher.