horses William Shatner wins a huge load of horse semen in his divorce settlement Thom Dunn

Drugs Without the Hot Air: the best book I've ever read on drugs and drug policy, in an expanded new edition Cory Doctorow

tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon’s murder, and William Shatner’s talking horses in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids LBJ killed JFK, the Queen’s secret lover & Julia Roberts’ divorce, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

marketing Pack of T-Rex race down the track instead of horses Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids Hollywood stars too fat and too thin, and the Royal reality TV show, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

animals Another horse dies at Santa Anita, 2-year-old colt is 27th fatality this season Xeni Jardin

science fiction Exclusive excerpt of Rudy Rucker's new novel: Million Mile Road Trip Mark Frauenfelder

Delightful Creatures Watch: horses drag 2000-pound sleds in Japaneses competition Mark Frauenfelder

futility closet The first American sports spectacle was an 1823 horse race between North and South Futility Closet

politics Beach Week (2018), a film by the Coen Brothers Rob Beschizza

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

nra Dallas restaurant tires of NRA convention racists Jason Weisberger

books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura

History My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing Rob Beschizza

fake news Bible predictions: talking pets, the Mark of the Beast, and an exploding pop star, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Waterstones, the UK's national bookstore, came back from near-death by transforming into indie, local stores Cory Doctorow

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

makers New Zealand's lost colossus: all-mechanical racetrack oddsmaking computer Cory Doctorow

crowdfunding White Supremacist wants to build Aryan enclave with Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign Xeni Jardin