BUT… BUT… BUT… WE MUST BE ACCEPTING OF OTHER CULTURES: ISIS uses nitric acid to kill and torture citizens in Mosul.  (SPIT!)

THE SHAPE OF COMING WAR: Xinhua commentary: US should stop provocations in South China Sea.

WHY DO SOCIALISTS DREAM OF ELECTRIC CHOO CHOOS? California Dream Choo-Choo Lives On: Bay Bridge Lessons Ignored.

SO MANY WORDS WHEN FEW SUFFICE. SOCIALISTS RAN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: What has gone wrong in Venezuela?

GOOGLE, BEING EVIL: Today Google is celebrating Yuri Kochyiama’s birthday.

NOW DEFINITELY ON AGAIN, FOR PRE-ORDER, FROM SARAH A. HOYT (YEAH, ME): Through Fire.

NOTHING GREAT ABOUT IT:The Humungous Depression, by Robert Gore.

AND US WITHOUT A LIFE RAFT: Mars To Make Its Closest Approach To Earth In 11 Years This Month.

THE SJWS ARE A SMALL, LOUD MINORITY: The ShirtStorm Social Experiment. You have to realize it takes the Marxists years of very expensive education to believe as many stupid things as they do.

EXPENSIVE LIPSTICK FOR THE PIG: TSA Spending Millions on Advertising, PR, Holograms While Travelers Suffer.

WHEN THE IGNORANT LEAD THE STUPID WHO LEAD THE DUPED: Libya, Five Years Later.

WHEN THREE WOLVES AND A SHEEP VOTE ON WHAT TO HAVE FOR DINNER: The Tragedy of Democratic Socialism.

AWARD NEWS: Prometheus Award finalists chosen for best novel.

DROP EVERYTHING.  WE MUST FIND THE COMPUTER REELING OFF THE NINE BILLION NAMES: In M4, near Eta Carinae, the stars are going out.

LIKE A VIRUS TO THE SOFTWARE HUMANITY RUNS ON: More Powerful Than a Bomb.  A bomb levels the trappings of civilization.  Marxism deconstructs civilization itself.

A DILEMMA COMING SOON TO OUR OWN NATION? In Venezuela, the army must decide whether it is “with the constitution or with Maduro.”

AND STILL ON THE CULTURE WARS: Zero.

And then some bright spark leaked the Facebook ‘trending news methodology’ to Gizmodo. Which was the same story (oddly led by a fellow called ‘Stocky’ — no, his name isn’t Story and his first name is not ‘Tall’ either) as the Hugo one, as the Nebula one, as the traditional publishing in general one: ideological bias – specifically left wing bias, effectively censoring any news they didn’t like and promoting news they did. Censoring trends from basically anything but left wing sources.

CAUGHT WITH HIS TABS HANGING OUT: Congressional Candidate Tweets Porn Browser Tabs.

SO ARE THEY ALL, HONORABLE MEN: Panel: how to protect science fiction awards from Bad People™.

KEEPING US SAFE TO DEATH: Who Killed Prince? Restrictions on Buprenorphine.

EAST OF THE SUN: Why US companies have started fleeing China.

FLAKS AND FAILED NOVELISTS: Quote of the day.

BECAUSE OUR ELITES ARE “YES MEN” AND FANBOYS: Why Is The World So Dangerous, The Sequel.

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S “MEN”: Cotton: Rhodes Is a ‘Chump,’ Obama’s National Security Team Consists of ‘Yes Men and Fan Boys’.

YEP: Japanese 3D Galaxy Map Confirms Einstein Was One Smart Dude.