• Forget Congress gittin’ ‘r done, it’s shutdown time!
• Confusing religious freedom with just firing anybody you want to.
• Maybe the Democrats need a better strategy (any strategy, really) than waiting for demographics to save them.
• Did Haruki Murakami make this year’s shortlist for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award? He sure did.
• Of dingos and media circuses.
• Not writing about teenage vampires or already have a fully-operational media operation? Go ahead, try and find an agent.
• Before we start building artificial intelligence bots, they should be understand. Otherwise: Skynet.
• Fox News vs. Jon Stewart; it goes on.
• “The Keep on the Borderlands,” lol; when young’uns play Dungeons & Dragons.
• Bill Cosby and the difference between black Republicans and black conservatives.
• Print and read: A novelist moves from Santa Monica to Irvine and discovers all that is glorious and utterly wretched about … Buffalo Wild Wings.