WHY I’D NEVER VOTE SANDERS: Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist.

BUT I DON’T WANT TO VOTE FOR SANDERS, EVEN SO: O’Reilly: I’ll flee to Ireland if Sanders wins.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Changeling’s Island e-arc. Dave Freer is one of my oldest friends in the field, who in the dark days of 2003 talked me into staying in the game and writing more. He’s also one of the best and most offbeat writers of sf/f working today.

WEIRD, PEOPLE ON MY BLOG WERE SAYING MORE OR LESS THIS LAST WEEK: History Flips.

DID YOU EXPECT TRUTH IN PRAVDA? Lies of Guantanamo.

DID WE EVER GET OBAMA’S? David Brock demands Sanders’ medical records.

AND WE HAVE TWO KIDS IN COLLEGE: All I can do is work harder, but this is not news.  We can feel it in the air. A recession worse than 2008 is coming.  Hold on to the sides of the boat.  Between this and our foreign policy, the water is about to get very choppy.

AGAIN, IF THIS IS NOT EMBARRASSING WE WANT PICTURES OF THE PRESIDENT ON HIS KNEES: Iran: American sailors are crybabies.

WERE THEY TRULY INTELLIGENT?  BY THEMSELVES, THAT IS? Is the Left Even on America’s Side Anymore? And for anyone looking for the rest of that quote, it goes “I don’ t know and I don’t know how we can ever find out.  I’m not a lab man; I’m an operator.”

NO. NEXT QUESTION: Does Anyone Believe Trump Seriously Cares about Whether Ted Cruz Is a Natural-Born Citizen?

HOW ABOUT PICTURES OF THE PRESIDENT ON HIS KNEES?  There are no words for the amount of nausea this administration inspires in me. White House Does Not Think Pictures of Sailors on Their Knees are Embarrassing.

OR OBAMA’S IRAN POLICY: Comets can’t explain weird ‘alien megastructure’ star after all.

Of course this is the true explanation:

Possibly for both, Obama’s Iran policy AND the alien megastructure star.

ABOUT TIME: 3 States Consider Lowering the Drinking Age.  Of course, where and when I grew up, drinking age was “can you toddle to the counter, and do you have money?”  Didn’t seem to give rise to any more alcoholism.  If anything there seemed to be less alcohol abuse.

I’D LIKE TO SAY IF I’D HAD MORE TIME FOR THIS HOBBY THE LAST FEW YEARS I’D BE THIS GOOD: I’d also like to say Helen of Troy was homely compared to me.  Both would be about the same size of lie. They’re not real?? Felt artist displays collection of mind-blowingly life-like cats and dogs.

HIS COMPENSATION COST THE WORLD DEARLY: Stalin’s Diminutive Size.

SMALL MARTYRS OF THE RODENT LIBERATION FRONT: Map of power outages caused by squirrels, with bonus squirrell-related links.

WAIT, WHAT?  That time President George H. W. Bush Escaped Cannibals.

BUT THEY ONLY DANCED SQUARE DANCES: Dinosaurs performed dances to woo mates, according to new evidence.

THE FOUNDING PARTY ANIMAL: January 17 is Ben Franklin’s birthday – bio, quotes, videos, his 200 synonyms for drunk, the bodies found in his basement, and more.

ONE OF THOSE DEMOCRAT SCHEMES: Prohibition in the United States began on January 16, 1920 and ended on December 3, 1933.

QUESTIONS YOU NEVER ASKED: The Story Behind ‘Runaround Sue’.

AND IF I HIT MY HEAD ON THE DESK REALLY HARD I MIGHT UNDERSTAND IT: Obama’s Iran Policy, Explained.

BUT… BUT THEY LOVE SCIENCE! Settled Science: Liberals Are Simple-Minded.

PARTICULARLY SINCE IF IT WEREN’T NAILED TO ITS PERCH, IT WOULD BE PUSHING UP DAISIES: Hillary Clinton’s promise to save ObamaCare is laughable.

BECAUSE ARISTOS ALWAYS VALUE THE DIFFICULT AND RECHERCHE? BECAUSE THEY’RE POSITIONAL GOODS? Why vinyl and Polaroids are coming back in the digital era.