A quick one here, while I wait for my wife to get home from her friends’ (where she went straight after picking up my copy of The E-Space Trilogy from the post office and before dropping it off at home. Harumph)…

DebiT writes about stem cell research, and why it is a good thing the US government now allow it.

Texas are about to execute an innocent man. Please get involved with Amnesty’s last-ditch attempt to stop this.

Today’s XKCD made me laugh far too loudly at work.

Jane at Firedoglake is talking about the way political action is limited by ‘acceptable’ rhetoric.

And Mightygodking improves Final Crisis