Mark Evanier on the Stormy storm, Amazon droning on drones, whining/leaving Silicon Valley, Theranos fraud, GBU, fair inequality vs unfair equality

Radio Parallax to take a break in weekly production, Trump fails to rebuff North Korean overtures, CIA ads, GBU, when not if the driverless cars, Bannon amok, Bolivia wants a coast; backlash against evils from Google and Facebook,

Death cleaning in the USA, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook wrongdoing and lies, banks taking down corporations in the rotten story of private equity firms and how the destroy jobs and commerce

LA Times weighs in on controversy at Martins Beach, sad tale from The Atlantic on how corporations became people; H1B visas and Einstein visas, brief obit for Steven Hawking

dropping bowling balls on Japanese cars, is Trump demented?, Brit millenials flunk history, GBU, why is the Bible so badly written?, Henry the Navigator and religious battles

Brief Obit: Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, readers send us Borowitz, bad day on proxima centauri b, yet more tech stupidity; double dose of the good, the bad and the ugly; still more sex with The Donald, 120 million dollars to fight foreign meddling in US election goes unspent

Drought relief; Jane Mayer The Atlantic article on the Steele Dossier at some length

Reprise: Dr Ivan Schwab on the evolution of the eye

Dr Ivan Scwab continued...

Preserving Baikal, militarism, history of Paul Manaford per article in The Atlantic, more sex scandal with The Donald, GBU, measles returns