Comics "The Nice House on the Lake" is a cozy riff on cosmic horror Thom Dunn

tabloids Russian sleeper cells and White House brawls in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

rpgs What's new in tabletop gaming Gareth Branwyn

tabloids Obama marriage crisis and new China plague in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

homelessness A video update on the Venice Beach homeless encampments Jason Weisberger

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing Gadgets These 30 winter survival items will help you handle the cold all winter long Boing Boing's Shop

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

happy mutants Right wing snowflakes moaning about Michelle Wolf's hilarious White House Press Corps monologue show us real "PC" Cory Doctorow

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

True Crime The 10 most unsolvable unsolved disappearances James Renner

rape culture The Jackie Fox rape disclosure shows we still have a lot to learn Maureen Herman

music Listen to President Obama's summer playlists David Pescovitz

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

Bobcat Goldthwait does the impossible in his latest film — again Martin Olson

Death, Science, Sexology: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum Mark Dery

books A horror novel that looks like an IKEA catalog Mark Frauenfelder

How to build an awesome honeycomb fort Rob Cockerham

Environment The revenge of the lawn Mark Dery