gop Pathological liar Santos gets green light to attend classified briefings Mark Frauenfelder

lauren boebert Lauren Boebert's son Tyler pleads guilty, dodges jail time Ellsworth Toohey

police Police minister's purse stolen while she was speaking at cop conference Allan Rose Hill

documentaries Terrifying documentary looks at QAnon origins Yoy Luadha

Child Development Christian parenting expert recommends spanking toddlers so they act excited to see you Mark Frauenfelder

fox news Homeless people "want to wander around and live in tents on the sidewalk" says Fox News' Jesse Watters Mark Frauenfelder

music The Wiggles "deeply disappointed" by the weaponization of their music David Pescovitz

alcohol Amsterdam tells Britain's violent, drunken tourists to stay away Rob Beschizza

facebook Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse now a "deserted fantasyland" Rob Beschizza

crime Manson family murderer recommended for parole, California governor says nope David Pescovitz

commercials A chatty relative runs out of battery juice in this 1994 Duracell commercial: The Puttermans Popkin

politics Psychedelic beer served for political gain David Pescovitz

Comic Books Ed Piskor's Red Room is a splatterpunk masterpiece Popkin

Science Sex as a cure for nasal congestion, flying rhinoceroses, and cat-human communication: winners of the 2021 Ig Nobel prizes David Pescovitz

passings Tommy Kimball, RIP Mark Frauenfelder

movies MGM buys movie rights to Ben Mezrich's book proposal about r/wallstreetbets David Pescovitz

tabloids Armie Hammer's cannibalism and Lizzie Borden's ax in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Schilling Jr.

Old school "spacehey", a new social network that reboots the design of MySpace Clive Thompson

books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow

Business Demetrification: improving social media by removing public like/follower/repost counts Cory Doctorow