Down by the old slipstream

Michael Swanwick on five fantasy books you won’t find in the fantasy section

Thanx to Tor.com.

Playing with a full deck

Some nifty Tarot decks. (Title uses language.)

Thanx to Metafilter

Some things man was not meant to experiment with

Designing the perfect food to eat while driving

Thanx to Metafilter

Hate speech

Why Hillary coverage is crap

Thanx to Follow Me Here

Mutual Assured Destruction

Here is a Republican strategist saying, “Trump can’t just lose; he must be humiliated.” I’m down with that. In fact, I’d like to see not only a major repudiation by the American people but also enough revelations about the real state of his finances that everyone will know that he is not the successful business genius that he plays on television, but rather an example of how the game is so fixed that someone who starts out rich enough will make at least modest profits no matter how mean and incompetent he is.

The strategist believes that a strong enough defeat for Trump will purge the Republican Party of the hatreds he feeds. But without those hatreds, the Republican Party is libertarianism without the fun parts, and that’s not going to win you a lot of elections.

ETA: The one nasty thing they couldn’t say at the Donald Trump Roast

Yet another way in which many people are worse than me

Around a third of all customers cheat the supermarket self-service checkout machines in some way.

Thanx to andrewducker

Not cancer

There is something icky in my prostate that they’re going to do an MRI on in October, but it’s not cancer.