ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME Police say Texas woman ate half a cake while roaming Walmart, then refused to pay Xeni Jardin

coronavirus Here are the 5 kinds of pandemic villains who are making things worse for the rest of us Mark Frauenfelder

The Ramones A new court battle over the Ramones' legacy goes back to a song about the KKK Thom Dunn

Funny Kentucky atheist can get ‘IM GOD’ license plate, US court rules Xeni Jardin

corruption How the "prosperity gospel" convinces poor people to give everything to grifty millionaire preachers Cory Doctorow

fake news Mueller snubbed, Harry and Meghan exiled, and suicidal airline pilots in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

News Trump ex-attorney Michael Cohen sentenced: 3 years prison, $500,000 forfeiture, $1.4 million restitution, $50,000 fine Xeni Jardin

music "A Scary Time (For Men and Boys)," a mockingly pitch-perfect ukelele protest song by Lynzy Lab David Pescovitz

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

television Grant Morrison on Happy! "the world is a nihilistic hellhole plunging toward screaming entropy, but … we have hope" Thomas Negovan

decisions Make tough decisions easier with a decision matrix R.E. Stearn

books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

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politics Watch her historic DNC speech in full: Hillary Clinton drags Trump (who tweets back) Xeni Jardin

law America's courts are going dark Cory Doctorow

security On whistleblowers and secrecy: What author Barry Eisler said to a room of ex-intelligence officers Barry Eisler

Reflections, 20 years Later, on A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace John Perry Barlow

publishing What publishers should do David Moldawer