WORTH CONSIDERING: The myth of over-incarceration.

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT SCIENCE: The Growing Food Fight over the Government’s Nutrition Guidelines.

AND NOW EVEN MORE ANNOYING: Creationists of the Secular Kind.

WHICH IS A GOOD THING: Why Cars Are Not Only Available In Black.

UM… NO: Why You Should Stop Sleeping Late On The Weekends.

IT’S ALSO BY AND LARGE TIRESOME AND FULL OF PSEUDO SERIOUSNESS: Stop Writing Dystopian Sci-Fi—It’s Making Us All Fear Technology.  There is a right way to write the end of the world with HOPE and faith in humanity. I recommend a shot of Ringo’s Black Tide Rising.  And call us in the morning.

HE EXPECTED A FAIR FIGHT WITH A CLINTON: For this alone, he should be judged mentally incompetent for the presidency.

WHICH PART OF WE THE PEOPLE DO YOU THINK THEY DON’T GET? Illinois just quietly passed a law that makes it a felony to record the police without consent.  Very simple, all government and government employees should understand, yes, we are INDEED the boss of you.  That’s why this is America.

WELL, THEN, ABOUT TIME: Plutonium-238 Is Produced In America For The First Time In Almost 30 Years.

THE TIMES WE LIVE IN:So depressing it’s almost funny.

YOU’RE NOT FAT: You’re a victim of FGF21 mutation.

AND NOW FOR THE REAL CRISIS! Tutu makers are in dangerously short supply, says London’s Royal Opera House.

IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE ORGANIZED TO BE AN INVASION: Wave of refugees to Europe an “organized invasion” says Czech PM.

SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT TO A GUY HOLDING A CABER: Scotland’s national dish is an ‘imposter’ and was invented by Vikings, claims master butcher.

WHEN BRITS STOP BEING POLITE: (Britain’s)Defense secretary Michael Fallon: suspend the human rights act to protect our troops.

IT’S TIME TO PLAY GUESS THAT PARTY: Pornographic email scandal ripples through Pennsylvania politics.

CONTEMPLATING: The Unbearable Lightness of Neil deGrasse Tyson.

A CHRISTMAS SALE:  Yeah, I know I’m late with pretty much everything, though I have a book coming out from Baen in May.  Health turmoil does that, but hopefully it’s over.  Meanwhile I decided to run a Christmas sale on a bunch of novels and a collection.  Hopefully by next year this time they’ll all have sequels. So, on sale for 99c are  Death of a Musketeer, Ill Met By Moonlight, No Will But His, and my first short story collection, published almost fifteen years ago, Crawling Between Heaven and Earth.

A NEW MEANING TO SHOTGUN WEDDING: Florida Jewelry Store Gives Away a Shotgun With Wedding Jewelry.  (Video.)

WONDER IF IT WOULD WORK: Retraining Your Hands to Stay Warm?

OF COURSE THE QUESTION IS DOES IT HAVE COOKIES: Most Sensitive Search For Dark Matter Ever Has Begun.

WITHOUT DOUBLE STANDARDS THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL:  Oh, the hypocrisy!

THAT INK IS POISONED: The Perils of Buying Your Own Hype.

SPEAKING OF SCROOGE: Get Over the Guilt and Celebrate Giving—and Getting—This Christmas.

WELL, DICKENS WAS A SOCIALIST: In Defense of Ebenezer Scrooge.  Granted he was a socialist in more innocent times, but still some of it must leak through.