1. Jerry Pournelle
Sci-Fi writer and former Byte contributor Jerry Pournelle continues with his wide-ranging blog Chaos Manor, despite recent health challenges. Thought-provoking as ever. Sci-Fi writers and futurists have a much more detailed and out of the box way of looking at the world because of what they write about, which requires equal degrees of understanding of the present, and the ability to imagine the future.

2. Satire, Onion-style
Apparently the Coors Light train has crashed...

3. A "WTF?" incident, multiple lawsuits and large settlements
In January 2013, David Eckert was detained in Deming NM in dubious circumstances and subjected to an escalating series of illegal humiliations and medical interventions after law enforcement became convinced (with insufficient probable cause) that he was concealing drugs inside his body.
The city of Deming and Hildago County has (rather rapidly, suggesting that they had no defense worth a damn) settled with Eckert and agreed to pay him $1.6 million in compensation. Eckert still has lawsuits open against other entities involved in the incident, including a hospital and doctors who were persuaded to operate on him illegally while he was being detained in that hospital in violation of just about every known principle of medical ethics.
This story truly has a horrific "WTF?" edge to it.

4. Large Corporations persistently rip off small artists and creative people
This story shows how a number of large corporations are quite happy to steal copyrighted works from small artists and creative people, sometimes by directly copying objects found on the internet. From reading the article, it is clear that the small artists in question have insufficient means of practical recourse. There is a blog devoted to itemizing some of the more blatant heists.