science fiction The next universe I choose to be born into will have more cooperative inanimate objects Cory Doctorow
tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon’s murder, and William Shatner’s talking horses in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
News NJ to expunge criminal records of many pot offenders, and restore voting rights for 80,000+ convicts Xeni Jardin
books Tolkien’s Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is probably a misogynist satire of women's rights campaigner Victoria Sackville-West Cory Doctorow
tv Emmy nominations: Predictable as usual, plus some stuff you'd hoped would happen that did Jamie Frevele