NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Obama outlines hopes for legacy on drone strikes.

MUCH OF THE SAME APPLIES TO WRITING: In fact, I’ve told several people the worst thing you can do if you want to become a working, selling writer (as opposed to an academically feted, non-selling one) college degrees in literature or writing might be counter-productive.  It took me years to get over “all the cr*p I learned” in college literature programs. ARTICLE: The Death of University Arts Programs, Part 1: Eric Fischl.

CONFESSIONS OF A STRATEGIC VOTER: The joy of voting in the Democratic primary as a conservative Republican.

OOOPS THEY’RE DOING IT AGAIN: Team Obama is setting us up for another housing-market collapse

YOU SUNDAY NIGHT DOSE OF DOOM AND GLOOM: The wages of EU overreach.

THE WEIRDEST PERSONAL AD I’VE EVER READ: NASA’s resurrected telescope seeks wandering planets.

WELL, IT IS THE 21st CENTURY: Flexible spinal cord implants will let paralyzed people walk.

CHECK YOUR GUT BACTERIA PRIVILEGE: Gut bacteria regulate nerve fibre insulation

IT COULD BE WORSE, SHE COULD HAVE CHILDREN: Neutering speech until silence prevails! (And no menacing movements either!)

OH SHOCKED FACE, YOU ARE NEVER FAR: NYPD corruption scandal leads straight to de Blasio.

BACKGROUND CHECKS ARE SO DISCRIMINATORY: Only 3 U.S. Airports Require Employee Security Checks.

TO BE FAIR, IT’S ONLY BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO FIDDLE: The feds dawdle while patients die needlessly.

THEY BECAME TEH GRAUNIAD SO SLOWLY I NEVER NOTICED TILL NOW: BBC News covers Higgs boson reboot with a smutty spelling gaffe.

Layers and layers of fact and spell checkers.  You know the drill. If only they were some gonzo guys (and gals) in their pajamas!

UPDATE: Link fixed!

WHAT’S IN A FACE: Choosing—or rejecting—a candidate by his/her face.

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