DO YOU THINK CLINTON WILL BE GENTLE? This is just the bloodletting the Republican Party needs.

FOR THE GENUINE ONES, THANK POLITICS: Thank Kim Kardashian for all the fake asses out there.

NO LONGER LOST: How a Near-Pristine 35mm Print of Orson Welles’ ‘Chimes at Midnight’ Was Found.

THIS IS GOOD TO SEE: “Mom said no,” “Only if there’s free pizza”: Muslims hilariously respond to ISIL leader’s call for recruits.

THOSE GALS OUT IN ALASKA: First female Caterpillar field mechanic in Alaska.

IS IT ME OR IS THE ATLANTIC BLAMING PRESERVATIONISTS FOR SKY HIGH RENTS IN SAN FRAN? San Francisco’s Self-Defeating Housing Activists.

BEYOND OBAMA’S FLAWED ANALOGIES: Assassin’s Screed.

WORTH CONSIDERING: I can tell you from reading my sons’ books through high school and college, that a theme throughout was “aspire to just enough.  Don’t reach for the stars.” Gaslighting the Middle Class. Of course, partly is how you look at it.  The very technology makes the world interconnected and there’s going to be a painful time of equalizing compensation throughout the world. At the same time the rising ability to work on anything anywhere does represent more individual freedom.

THE ERROR WAS ASSUMING OBAMA WANTED US TO WIN: What It Takes to Win in Afghanistan.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE FOR THE EVENING: Seventy-Five Percent of Americans Dissatisfied with Washington, D.C.

WAIT, WAIT MATHEMATICIANS FORM POSSES?  HOW COME MY HUSBAND NEVER TOLD ME? Posse of Mathematicians Bridges Number Theory and Geometry.  His penchant for wearing a cowboy hat in order to keep his glasses snow-free is now explained!

WORST HARRY POTTER SEQUEL EVER: Stephen Miller on Twitter.

BUT IT’S NOT ALL GOOD.  POPCORN IS SO EXPENSIVE: Rahm Emanuel, Stranded in Cuba as His Deputy Gets Assaulted.

THE WORD DOESN’T MEAN WHAT NBC THINKS IT MEANS: Trump corrects NBC: Clinton, Lewinsky affair not ‘alleged’.

REALLY, WHERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE? Bay Area Job Growth Slows After Minimum-Wage Hikes.  In other news, the laws of physics, like the laws of economics, refuse to bend to the “feels” of liberals.

I’LL BE ATTENDING THIS IN FEBRUARY: Unless major disaster occurs. The Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop. Attended the last one.  VERY worth it.

IN A MERE THOUSAND VOLUMES:What Obama doesn’t understand about human nature.

I THINK MY SHOCKED FACE IS GETTING WORN OUT FROM USE: Report: Obama’s NSA spied on Israel, Congress, and Jewish Organizations.

THEY ALWAYS PROTECT THEIR OFFENDERS: The Bill Clinton Effect: Why Liberals Treat Women Worse. (BTW this has been my experience with liberals in my business as well.)

VICTIMS ARE VICTIMS ARE VICTIMS: Gay sex slave trial exposes hardships of male trafficking victims.

WON’T HAPPEN: What will it take for Hillary and Obama to condemn the Chicago coverup?

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS: BBC Admits ‘Gaza Under Attack’ Images Fabricated.

JUST WHAT WE NEEDED:New contagious form of cancer discovered.

OBITUARY: George Clayton Johnson, science-fiction author, dies at 86.

FROM THE PARTY THAT GAVE US SLAVERY AND JIM CROW: The ‘mismatch theory’ is a real danger to minority students.