IN THE MAIL: Dragon Noir by Cedar Sanderson.

MOLON LABE: Australia’s 1996 Gun Confiscation Didn’t Work – And it Wouldn’t Work in America.

AN EVER GREEN HEADLINE: Hillary Clinton’s latest lie about videos and terrorists.

AND NOT JUST MOVIES: Star Wars Proves Feminists Are Clueless about Science Fiction. But if they admit women have been writing and starring in science fiction since almost the very beginning, they don’t get to pretend they’re special, brave pioneers.  And then what will these upper class malcontents have left?

IN THE MAIL: Sleeping Duty by Laura Montgomery.

IT’S NOT LIKE THEY’RE ACCOUNTABLE TO ANYONE: IRS loses $27 million to computer glitch.

IT ALWAYS COMES TO THIS WITH THE LEFT: It’s like they really hate humanity or something. Climate Change’s Next Act.

SYMPATHIZING WITH THEIR OPPRESSORS IS NOT SOLIDARITY: As Muslim women, we actually ask you not to wear the ‘hijab’ in the name of interfaith solidarity.

IN THE MAIL: The Bird of Dawning: A Cat Among Dragons Christmas Story by Alma Boykin.

OUR FRIENDS, THE IRANIANS: Chilling.

CLIMATE SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Site, Cite, and Oversight.

FIRST DAYS ON JOB CAN BE ROUGH: Tim Peake: First day on International Space Station was ‘pretty rough’.

BRAIN DRAIN: Sir Tim Hunt ‘to leave Britain for Japan’ after sexism row.

OF COURSE: The book every new American citizen — and every old one, too — should read.

AT THIS POINT, REALLY, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE: Hillary’s blindness to Muslim extremists is dangerous.

SCIENCE AND MAGIC: The Ship of the Imagination.

MINE HAVE SUNK TO EARTH’S CORE: Republican Congress Sets Low Expectations for 2016 Lawmaking.

AND BY US YOU SHOULD, OF COURSE, READ THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: U.S. Reassures Iran on Visa Restrictions. They wouldn’t want something to mar their perfect friendship.

YOU MEAN OUR ALLIES: Iranian Hackers Infiltrated New York Dam in 2013.  Now that Obama has his treaty it will all be well.  (Yes, I DO have a license for this much sarcasm.  I have a print out of the first amendment.)

A DISH BEST SERVED ANNOYING: Making a Meal out of Everything. Me?  I’ve culturally appropriated your language, I’ve culturally appropriated your literature, and you might be able to pry your culturally appropriated constitution out of my cold dead fingers, but I wouldn’t bank on it. Smart people take the best of every culture.  Idiots lament about “purity.”

FINALLY A UNION ACTION I AGREE WITH: The United Autoworkers slap down the Israel-bashers,

ONE COULD ALMOST SUSPECT HE WANTS THEM FREE: Baking and yoga: The excuses that get killer thugs out of Gitmo.

CRUSH IS SUCH A MEAN WORD; CAN OBAMA SEND THEM A STRONGLY WORDED LETTER INSTEAD: How to crush ISIS.

I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A WILD HARE: The hidden meaning behind the facial hair of Stalin, Hitler and Lincoln.

THAT MOST SCHOOL CHILDREN LEARN THIS REVERSED IS A SCANDAL: This Day in History… Republicans Pass Anti-KKK Act – Outlawing Democratic Terrorist Groups.