Dubai is built on slave labor and is ecologically disastrous, and is going bankrupt anyway.

Thanx to Making Light.

The No Fear Scarlet Letter, with the original and an "easy-to-understand translation" on facing pages.

The sewermouthed pterodactyl

Thanx to rm

When Whizzinators are outlawed, only outlaws will have Whizzinators

Thanx to onyxlynx

Tennessee mayor uncovers a plot

Thanx to paft

Justine Musk writes like a bad girl: Part One, Part Two.

John Scalzi lists the 10 worst sci-fi flicks of the decade.

Thanx to Whatever.

Alleged heterosexuals try to lower the age at which women become too old to have sex.

Thanx to Pandagon.

Happy birthday, gaztherat, netmouse, and rwl.

How fandom began

Thanx to Tor.com

Higher-up in international criminal conspiracy discusses his role in covering up systemic child abuse.

Frederik Pohl remembers John W. Campbell.

Happy birthday, celestialabyss and kightp

New improved Bill of Rights. With brand names.

Thanx to onyxlynx

Here we go again. The poor beleaguered Christian minority is being brutally persecuted by being wished "Happy Holidays," which is just like being thrown to the lions. Here's a saner view.

(I particularly like "Being a Christian means fixing yourself and helping others, not the other way around.")

Thanx to Lynn A. Kendall on Facebook.

1. The numbers from my blood test are good

2. The hearing aid for my less bad ear is in the shop.

3. I just got a medical report that my middle finger suffered a subluxation two weeks ago. That sounds much more elegant than a mere dislocation

The Salvation Army is making sure it doesn't give any toys to foreign children, and General J.C. Christian suggests that the Bible be updated to deal with that (and of course Teh Gay).

Little Green Footballs parts ways with the Right.

Thanx to Pandagon.

Michele Bachmann says that we lived in Libertarian Heaven last year.

Thanx to Fragano Ledgister on Facebook.

An excellent baseball player from my childhood, and he made astute comments on the nostalgia TV shows about those days.