The rat supplants the Mouse

Mari Ness looks at Ratatouille.

Thanx to Tor.com.

Schematic

The Norton Critical Edition's Periodic Table of Literary Villains

Thanx to Metafilter

The stagecoach that robs you

More fraud from the racketeer influenced and corrupt organization known as Wells Fargo

Thanx to Charles P. Pierce.

Contradictory twofers

“When Asian American faces were doctored to appear heavier, they were rated as significantly more American as the same Asian American faces doctored to be thinner.”

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

Rats fancy fancy rats

Being only human, rats can be trained to fetishize lingerie.

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

Useful

The Radical Copyeditor’s Style Guide for Writing about Transgender People

The stewardi & sheriffim join in mourning

Shelley Berman was really funny.

Statement

1. There is no such organization as Antifa

2. I’ve been an antifascist all my life. The only reason I wasn’t a premature one is that the war had already started when I was born. Lopping a few letters off the end doesn’t change anything.