I’VE BEEN RUNNING INTO A LOT OF FALSE DICHOTOMIES: Cake or Death, the Grudge Match.

NOT ENOUGH REPORTING ON VENEZUELA: Millennials Embrace Socialism, but Do They Know What It Is?  If they went to public school their teachers just told them how wonderful it is.  The kids will grow out of it, but before or after they take all of us screaming down to Venezuela?

I FOR ONE WELCOME… A Major Law Firm Will Soon Be Using A Robotic Lawyer.

FROM JOHN VAN STRY: Portals of Infinity: Kaiju.

END STAGE SOCIALISM: Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals.

FROM MARY CATELLI: Winter’s Curse.

AND RUMORS OF WAR: Pentagon: China Restructures for War.

FROM ALMA BOYKIN: Alexi, Ivan, and the Hidden Heart.

BEFORE WE GO VENEZUELA: Reflections on Venezuela’s “Economic Miracle”.

WHAT PART OF FIRST AMENDMENT DON’T THEY UNDERSTAND? Environmentalist Group Warned Against Federal Charges for ‘Deniers’

SJWs THAT WHICH SUCKS JOY OUT OF LIFE: Ghost In The Shell, Again.

LOOK, IN MY DAY WE SHOT FOR “SENTIENT” BUT IF YOU’RE THAT DESPERATE FOR A DATE ON A SATURDAY NIGHT, DIRT CAN’T RUN AWAY: You Can Have Sex With The Environment Now, Y’all.  (aka, what feminism hath wroth.)

END STAGE SOCIALISM: Maduro in crackdown under Venezuela emergency decree.  (I am amused by odd things.  Such as the fact that his name translates as both “mature” and “ripe.”  Rope ripe is more like it.)

INDEFENSIBLE: Facebook defends trending topics following leak.

OF COURSE.  BUT THEN WHAT DOESN’T? Islamophobia Causes Global Warming!

IT IS APT TO REMEMBER THAT EVEN IF WE FALL, WE DON’T HAVE TO STAY FALLEN: Let New Europe be New Europe.  They survived communism and they might outlast the west.

SOCIALISTS HAVE THIS ISSUE: But They Don’t Do Math,

YEAH, BUT YOU’D HAVE TO GIVE UP FEDERAL DOLLARS: Most states have an addiction issue with Fed cash. Restoring local control of education.

PUSHBACK IS EVERYWHERE: Daryl Hall has a message for critics crying cultural appropriation: “Shut the f*ck up”. Without cultural appropriation, we’d all be flaking rock the way our distant ancestors did.  Acquiring and adapting the best in any culture IS being human.

THEIR FIELD WAS TAKEN OVER EARLIER AND MORE COMPLETELY THAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY: Unloaded: Crime writers pushing an agenda.

IT’S SAD WHEN A STATE GETS HIGH: (Before you tell me what’s wrong with the map, yes, I know, THAT’S the joke.)

THE ROPE TO HANG US WITH: Iran claims $100 billion now freed in major step as sanctions roll back.

HOWEVER WE SHOULDN’T LOOK FOR SUPERHEROES IN POLITICS: Nicolás Maduro promises to use new powers to rescue Venezuelan economy. When you reach peak socialism, apparently you double down.

I DON’T KNOW.  I THINK WE’LL SEE SUPERHERO STORIES AS LONG AS AMERICANS ARE BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Captain America: Peak Superhero?

CREDIT WHERE IT’S LONG OVERDUE: Jim Baen And SF.