science fiction RIP Kit Reed, brilliant giant of science fiction Cory Doctorow

voter suppression Trump's campaign against mail-in voting is backfiring by discouraging Republican absentee voters Thom Dunn

#COVIDIOTS The screaming no-masker was fired from his job Mark Frauenfelder

books "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death, and dad's amateur erotica career Thom Dunn

crime Woman points gun at mother and daughter in Chipotle car lot, charged with assault Rob Beschizza

publishing "Fantasy Magazine" returns after nearly a decade away Thom Dunn

speculations Even Fox wonders if Trump might drop out of November's presidential election Carla Sinclair

sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing

Nintendo Switch XCOM 2 for the Nintendo Switch is a glitchy heart breaker Seamus Bellamy

Space NASA renames DC headquarters after Mary W. Jackson Rob Beschizza

psychology How Maria Konnikova used her psychology background to be a champion poker player Mark Frauenfelder

Spoken Word with Electronics In Praise of THE SPAMP! And SPIT-COIN: A Proposal to Convert All Money to Saliva Ethan Persoff

puzzles My trip through the Starmaze: a world in the 9th dimension Jane Frauenfelder

coronavirus Wear your mask in the bathroom so you don't get coronavirus from poop Thom Dunn

genocide This children's book about Oliver Cromwell is like playful colonialist violence for kids Thom Dunn

police Howard Stern and the Village People both fell for a satire article about the cop from the Village People Thom Dunn

Entertainment 'Gone with the Wind' gone from HBO Max Xeni Jardin

Comics MAD Magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 Janelle Hessig

Comic Books Talking The Rough Pearl with Xeric Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Kevin Mutch Jeffery Klaehn

News Meet Rahul Dubey, 'absolute legend' who sheltered ~70 protestors inside his home for 8 hours overnight Xeni Jardin