Expert

I first encountered Wayne Allyn Root in the pro football magazines, where he was offering his services as an investment adviser. Now he has moved on to defending America against same-sex marriage, which threatens to infect the rest of us with the diabolical notion that marriage can be something other than a tiresome duty. Amanda Marcotte mocks him, including pointing out that his statistics don't work. If he applied those arithmetical skills to beating the spread, it's no wonder he needed a new gig.

Thanx to Pandagon.

Fictional characters

Making up fake blogs for search engine optimization as an art form

Thanx to Metafilter

Pastime

African American history scholar loves, discusses board games.

"one of the most incisive literary multi-hyphenates at work today"

Which means that Roz Kaveney writes a lot of different stuff well. Interview.

The short-fingered vulgarian sues badly

"As befits Trump, the claim is loud, vulgar, and stupid"

Thanx to Popehat