First Draft: True unity.

Slacktivist: Tone policing, abolitionist edition.

Crooked Timber: Democracy and inequality as a global foreign policy agenda.

The Nib: The gooey center.

Obsidian Wings: Night owl woes.

Whatever: How to make anything sound "science fictional."

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.