Linkage

• How Civilization Started (New Yorker) Basically, the creation of civilization, defined here as grain based agriculture, generally created human misery ……… And taxes.
• HP once again caught sneaking code into printers to reject third-party ink (Boing Boing) Rat bastards.
• Obama’s Just the Enemy And Always Was (Ian Welsh)  Yeah, I agree.  Obama wooed conservatives, and hated liberals.
• The Real Reason Hillary Can’t Just Shut The F%$# Up And Go Away (Medium) Her campaign was that Trump would destroy the world, she lost to Trump, hence SHE is complicit in destroying the world. QED.
• Safety Experts: Some F-35 Ejections Pose ‘Serious’ Death Risk (Roll Call) No, this is not a repeat, this is ANOTHER potentially lethal problem with the "Mistake Jet".
• How British colonialism ruined a perfect cup of tea (Al Jazeera) Any comment from my tea fanatic brother?
• "Mad Pooper" terrorizes Colorado Springs family (Boing Boing) Rather evocative of Read The Attack of the Mad sh%$ter, one of the funniest essays that I have ever read. 

Here is a classic Star Wars parody.  It's 20 years old.  I feel old: