WISHFUL THINKING: they’re hoping to escape the election. Newly discovered planet could destroy Earth any day now.

AND WHAT HAD THE POOR DOG DONE TO DESERVE THAT:Woman fed husband to her dog piece by piece until he died: cops.

NUDITY PRIVILEGE: Kim Kardashian Needs To Learn That Public Nudity Isn’t Empowering,

1776: He was the genius behind Broadway’s least likely hit.

GOVERNMENT IS A WORD FOR WHAT WE CHOOSE TO DO TOGETHER: The VA Scandals: Death by Bureaucracy.

AND BERNIE ISN’T SANTA CLAUS: TANSTAAFL.

APPARENTLY THERE WAS A GREAT HUNGER OUT THERE: For non-sparkly vampires.  Who knew?  Sword and Blood – by Sarah A. Hoyt.  If you’d like a free story in the world: First Blood – Free, Complete Short Story.

WELL, YES: Genital Integrity Awareness Week Causes Some Locals to get Snippy.

HE HAS A POINT, CONSIDERING PEOPLE WHO WEAR CHE GUEVARA OR MAO T-SHIRTS AREN’T SHUNNED: But still the appropriate way to treat him is with a lot of therapy.  Does he really want his kid to grow up to be a mass murderer? Dad who named kid Hitler is tired of being ‘treated like garbage’.

AFTER WHICH THEY PLAN TO LOCK THE BARN FROM WHICH THE HORSE FLED: Asia Times: Pentagon Trying to Stop Chinese Air Defense Zone in Disputed Sea.

UNDER THE SAGE GUIDANCE OF JEAN LE KERRY: US Helping Iran Access Billions in Frozen Funds

HOWEVER EVEN IN THE STATES, NOT ALL IS LOST: Stanford Students Fight Campus Groupthink.

EXPERIENCE IS A HARD TEACHER: Brazil’s Youth Fight Against Socialism as American Millennials Prepare to March in its Favor.

STOPPED CLOCK: Is Trump Right About Experts?

IS THIS AN APRIL’S FOOL THING? Who needs sex to make babies? Pretty soon, humans won’t.  Surely they understand there are other… ahem… benefits to this process?

AND I WANT THEM TO LEAVE MY BRAIN ALONE: Brain-zapping gadgets promise to make you a better you — smarter, stronger, even happier.  Electronic soma is still soma

THE NUMBERS DON’T ADD UP: Trump’s Deportation Plan Would Cost at Least $400 Billion. Plan would take at least 20 years to implement.  Which is fine if you plan to make him president for life.

FASTER PLEASE: New HIV antibody therapy ‘eradicated the virus within TWO weeks’.

GOING LIVE ANY MINUTE NOW: these books come with an iron clad pledge that these, like any vampires I write, don’t sparkle unless you douse them in gasoline and set them on fire.  (And then it’s not so much sparkle as glow. But they would present a very pretty and festive spectacle.  You should avoid roasting marshmallows on them thought, because of the gasoline fumes.)  Sword and blood by Sarah A. Hoyt.

BUT ADMITTING THAT WOULD MEAN THE THEORY WAS WRONG: And Al Gore might need to work for a living. Falling Sea Level.

SPEAKING OF GUNS: Doctors and Guns.

BARRACK H. OBAMA, GUN SALESMAN: March Sees Record Gun Sales.

GOING LIVE ANY MINUTE NOW, FROM BAEN BOOKS: Dave Freer’s Changeling Island.

AS IT HAPPENS I GREW UP ON ENID BLYTON: the crime-busting heroics of the Tremendous Twelve and Molly the Dog.

FROM HIS MOUTH: this may be the week the SJWs lost it all.