"If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You are very similar to everybody else in the world. You love, you hate, you have friends, you have enemies. Be who you are." -- Carl Reiner
December 14, 2022

Happy 97th birthday yesterday to the amazing Dick Van Dyke (see above.)

First-Draft: Party On, Justice Bro.

Mike the Mad Biologist: Some Thoughts on the Twitterz (and Other Social Media Sites.)

The Chicago Reader: Good riddance -- The best thing Alderperson Ed Burke ever did for Chicago was to leave office.

Attention space nerds! Orion Comes Home to Earth. .

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University.

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