Saturday afternoon round-up and Open Thread

Victorian posy of pansiesHeading out, so here’s a quick download of interesting stuff:

** 1 **

We missed a solar bullet a couple of years ago. The sun would have done a much better job even than Islamists of knocking the world back to the Stone Age.

** 2 **

It is unbelievable what people can do with plants.

** 3 **

A modern Russian fairy tale about the upside down world in the Middle East.

** 4 **

Even the dictionaries are politically biased.

** 4 **

Fundamentally, no matter the names they give themselves (Al Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, etc.), they’re one big army, and the enemy is us.

Antisemitic revolution at home

** 5 **

Liberals are funny

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