DUH. PARTICULARLY BOYS: School Kids Don’t Need “Wiggle Chairs.” They Need a Real Recess.

VOTE FOR THIS LIZARD; IT’S IMPORTANT: What a Trump win would mean for the economy.

MORE ON OBAMA’S EXCELLENT MIDDLE-EASTERN ADVENTURE: Cuba, Iran’s island in the sun.

THEY’RE FRANTICALLY SENDING “DREAMS FROM MY FATHER; IT’S A COOKBOOK”: Scientists say weird signals from space are ‘probably’ aliens.

FLORIDA MAN GOT A SEX CHANGE OPERATION? AND MOVED TO TX? Drunk student crashes into cop car while taking topless selfie: police.

THE ONE THING THEY’LL NEVER REDISTRIBUTE: Hoarders of rectitude.

HE WILL. RIGHT AFTER PIGS FLY: Senators to Obama: ‘Suspend Our Ties’ with UNESCO After Latest anti-Israel Resolution.

RATS, SHIP ABANDONING: Colbert Mercilessly Mocks Obamacare.

I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED… NOT: Harvard poll: Majority says ObamaCare faring poorly — even before WH acknowledged steep premium hikes.

BECAUSE THOSE WHO CAN’T BUILD, DESTROY: Why Islamic State wants to destroy the treasures of the ancient world.

SHE’S GOT A TICKET TO RIDE: Hillary Clinton Boards The Climate Crisis Train To Nowhere.

TO ALL THEIR OTHER AMAZING ATTRIBUTES, THESE DESERTS ADD INVISIBILITY: Esquire Panic! Global Warming Creating ‘Vast Deserts’.

IS THAT A GASLIGHT I SEE BEFORE ME? The dangerous lie cop haters tell to neuter our police.

LAW HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE: Bureaucrats Threaten the Rule of Law.

A PLAYWRIGHT WHO COLLABORATED? INCONCEIVABLE: Shakespeare apparently had help with his most famous plays.

WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR: The Lure of Har Megiddo.

SO THEY WERE STUDYING THE CLINTONS? What a tangled web we weave…

BAEN BOOKS HAS POSTED ON FACEBOOK THAT: This novel, and also this novel are finalists for the Prometheus award.  As always, speaking for myself, it’s an honor just to be nominated.

THEY CAN HAVE TOASTERS THAT DON’T TOAST, OR THEY COULD, YOU KNOW, GET LESS PRISSY ABOUT ENERGY: The EU is reviewing the policy that makes its appliances so energy efficient.

IN THE EMAIL FROM JAN VAN STRY: Days of Future Past.

WE MIGHT NOT BE ALONE: Strange messages coming from the stars are ‘probably’ from aliens, scientists say.

THANK HEAVENS GOVERNMENT MONEY COMES FROM MAGICAL UNICORNS: Rates Rise Again For Obamacare Health Plans, But So Do Subsidies.

OPEN UP AND SAY AHHHHHH: Obamacare premiums rising, choice decreasing.

COMPASSION AND CHOICES: or who gets to decide when you die? Terminally ill mom denied treatment coverage — but gets suicide drug approved.

WE SHALL NOT SEE HIS LIKE AGAIN: Steven DenBeste 1952(?)-2016