Annals of crime

A high school football player took a dare and whipped out his penis for a team photo. There has been a collective ecstasy of sanctimony over this monstrous act, and he is facing 70 felony charges.

There was a similar picture in my college yearbook. The perp went unpunished and went on to a successful career as a doctor and med school professor.

Recommended

Good list of 100 sf books by women. (Nitpick: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever is not a novel.)

Thanx to Tor.com.

Obscene

Illegal number

Thanx to Follow Me Here

“Like a rotten teacher in high school, except it’s everybody’s teacher.”

Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury discuss television.

Thanx to File 770

Trump Is the One

Now is the time for the 50-state strategy. There should be a Democratic candidate in every House & Senate race, even the seemingly hopeless ones, asking the Republican, “Do you agree with this rich turd?”

Eloquent appreciation

Michael Swanwick discusses Farah Mendlesohn’s Rhetorics of Fantasy.