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The strange thing about these weird little fen is that they proudly proclaim how different and unusual they are, then turn around and assume that everyone else must share their priorities and values. Their psychological issues are often apparent in the way they contradict themselves, not just over time, but often in the course of […]
8 million views for 2014. Just passed the number. Thanks to ESR for the assist. I’ll note again that this is just the views recorded by Google’s software; the actual number of views is higher. I’ll have a full report at the end of the year. But still: 8 million views. It doesn’t suck. Thank […]
Theos considers the history of atheism: Nick Spencer is research director of the (excellent) “religion and society think tank” Theos, and so he views the subject with a quiet Christian scepticism. But it is not his purpose to attack atheism. Instead, he wants to tell its history as it has developed, chiefly in Europe, in […]
Twitchy has a round-up of Larry Correia’s comprehensive Twitterspank of John Scalzi: After the freakout sparked by Miss Nevada promoting women’s self defense, Correia wrote a blog post with the headline The Naive Idiocy of Teaching Rapists Not To Rape. Here’s a taste: The idea that there is a “rape culture” in the USA is a myth. […]
It is remarkable how quickly the feared agency began acting like frightened gangsters once they found themselves in the investigative crosshairs: When charges came out that the IRS targeted Tea Party groups for harassment, the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto started calling Obama “President Asterisk.” His point was that this illicit assistance tainted the election, […]
It’s as expected as it is informative that “Opera Vita Aeterna” is meeting with entirely different receptions depending upon the reader. For example, here is a review of the Hugo-nominated novelette from one Nerdvanel: Apparently “Opera Vita Aeterna” is totally ungrammatical in Latin. I didn’t notice any spelling errors in the story itself, but really, […]
Since we are all about the evidence here at VP, be it scientific, documentary, or testimonial, here is a documented example of the sort of thing that a certain Baen author pointed out a certain Tor author is prone to overlooking on the part of the Tor editors when he is busy on pinkshirt patrol […]
The famous stalker of Asian women and rescuer of woodland animals appears to be going off the deep end. In addition to revealing his latest identity, “Nikola” of the copious comments on the Greatest SF Writer poll, he posted this on his blog: Nina asked if anyone’s ever gotten pissy about being drawn and I […]
I find it modestly amusing how the only thing that the two sides of the low-grade civil war between the SFWA Old Guard and the Insect Army can agree upon is that I am simply beyond the pale. “That’s right! I am dangerous, Ice… man!” Although it’s also amusing how a few of them seem […]
Apparently I was correct to anticipate that my signature would be removed from Dave Truesdale’s SFWA petition: “If Truesdale, a non-member, can present such a petition, Beale, a non-member, should be able to sign it. Removing someone’s name from a petition because one thinks they are an asshat is prima facie evidence that one is, […]