- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil reads the wonderful poetic output of a Putin ally.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger resorts to the unfair tactic of research and data to discover what attracts voters to each of the two major parties.
- Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice brings us reporting about, and reactions to, the firing of Andrew McCabe hours before his planned retirement. The only effect is to deprive him of a full pension.
- PZ Myers looks at the same pension and timing and finds the right description.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit conducts a brief analysis of my President’s method of terminating employment.
- Vixen Strangely, at Strangely Blogged, sees recent Trump remote firings and detects a pattern of personality.
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report has figured out why God made Donald Trump President.
- How can anyone oppose President Trump’s impulsive proposal of a Space Force? driftglass, who wrote about the idea long before it occurred to our Commander-in-Chief, counts the ways.
- The insightful Infidel753 posts an insightful farewell to insightful Stephen Hawking.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce takes us to evangelical Christians to whom it is spiritually vital to believe that Stephan Hawking is burning in Hell.
- Author John Scalzi at Whatever visits friends in Durham, NC. He happens upon a sculpture of a bull that stares into his soul.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study at the University of Sheffield in England on how to deal with small flying insects: Catch them and turn them into fertilizer.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from The Boston Globe, reporting on an Immigration official who resigns rather than repeat lies about undocumented immigrants.