So people don’t talk about Epstein for a day. Specifically about the NYT’s look around Epstein’s NYC home that features personal photos with Trump

I love that in captivity they bond well with their caregivers (like right here) — but in the wild, they are absolute unholy terrors. That stabby hook on the end of the bill ain’t just for show.

This news is difficult to digest

Sorry about the rain on Katie’s big day.
Other than that . . . Yup.

Absolute spitting image of the cat I had for fifteen years. RIP Emily. 😢

Red Dead Tycoon

One more vote for the Guild Wars 2 community. The PvP area is as nasty as it is for any other game, but the general PvE area is almost unfailingly positive

Portal. Though it may also have been the song.

Satan tempted Christ in the desert with worldly power. Christ told Satan to pound sand.

Trump tempted evangelicals with worldly power. They haven’t stopped licking his boots since.

It’s possible they didn’t understand that particular story.

Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching books, starting with The Wee Free Men. Not a female author, but a magnificent young female protagonist (and many other strong female characters)

Democratic presidents excel at creating strong economies for GOP presidents to take credit for and then destroy

My understanding is that the great Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga had its genesis as Star Trek fan fiction. She made the setting entirely her own before it saw print, but that’s how that magnificent series started.