- This is what a CIA coloring book looks like.
- Even George Will should have known better.
- There is nothing medieval, really, about Game of Thrones.
- “There are plenty of “fully functioning” scientists who believe in God;” The new Cosmos vs. Creationists.
- Shale, Mexico, and drug gangs in homemade tanks.
- How the raid on bin Laden is helping to bring back polio.
- Does Israel even need a president?
- The new translation of Camus’ The Stranger titles it The Outsider.
- Annals of fantasy realtime: Armored and armed “high elf” attacks Morgoth (actually just a car).
- The great Rik Mayall, of The Young Ones, and other grotty British comedies, has passed on; long live “Rick” the anarchist!
- Print and read: After 50 years of American wars, achievements hard to come by.
