Happy New Year

More Fake Hate

This time it's a cop faking.

Mother Jones on Myths

An interesting piece from Kevin Drum.

Montserrat Figueras

Sings a Catalan folk song.

Some music

True Faith, my favorite New Order song.

An unusual cover version!

A Sad Debunking

Was Aunt Bee a hottie back in the day?? Alas.

Sex Differences in Personality

Alex Tabbarok links to new research.

Earliest pictorial Art?

New cave paintings have been discovered. Coyne as a good write-up.

Greenwald on the IG report

Glenn Greenwald examines the extent of the failure and corruption, in both the intelligence community and the media, exposed by the IG report.  This is an excellent article.

Bruno Turner Again

I came across mention of Bruno Turner. I blogged him years ago, so this is just a bump of that post. The kind of man who made the world better.

Another Shamelessly Stolen Graphic

Impeachment follies

In short: I pretty much agree with Turley, but I see even less evidence than he does. I was in favor of a real investigation but that is not what we got. This op-ed from CNN of all places is a good summary.

Carpe Donktum Thread

Trump tweets a horse.

The Great Stupiding Continues

Ten year olds charged as sex offenders. Here.

Good catch

Nailing a tiny example of trendy online hypocrisy.

Best Ellery Queen Novel — The Finals

UPDATE:
The poll is closed! The results  are here. Close! The winner, by 1 vote, is ...
Cat Of Many Tails 16 votes
The Greek Coffin Mystery 15 votes
The Siamese Twin Mystery 13 votes
There Was An Old Woman 12 votes

That was my pick, but look how close the 4 finalists were.
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There were no big surprises in the Ellery Queen polls, except that Roman Hat got a vote, and so now we have two finalists from period 1 and two finalists from period 2.

Vote once in the poll below.

Best Ellery Queen Novel - Finals (Pick One)