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NK Jemisin is publicly lying about me and a few other things in Australia as she blithely advocates the continued self-destruction of science fiction: Right now American politicians are doing their best to roll back voting rights won during our own Civil Rights movement. They are putting in place educational “reforms” which disproportionately have a […]
Even the myopic Church of England is able to recognize the great generational black hole, if a little belatedly: Baby boomers are a “fortunate generation” who have enjoyed dramatic improvements in living standards but are now “absorbing” more than their fair share of taxpayers’ money, one of the Church of England’s most senior clerics has […]
One of the cross-dressing lights of the New Equalitarians created a helpful list of the most censorious liberal fascists in the SFWA. With one or two exceptions, it’s a useful list of nobodies and mediocrities whose books you now know you can safely continue to ignore. It’s a bit amusing to read through it and […]
Why the Grasshopper Generation is the most hated generation: Pity the baby boomers, blamed in their youth for every ill and excess of American society and now, in their dotage, for threatening to sink the economy and perhaps Western civilization itself. The revival of The Great Gatsby serves as a reminder that continuing to blame […]
I don’t bother with tip jars or Amazon wish lists, but if you’re looking for ideas about what to buy me for Christmas, this will do nicely: The PGF isn’t just a fancy scope on top of a rifle. All together, the PGF is made up of a firearm, a modified trigger mechanism with variable […]
INFINITE JESTDavid Foster WallaceRating: 3 of 10 If nothing else, I now understand why David Foster Wallace killed himself. Despite being built up as the literary wunderkind of his generation, despite having been widely acclaimed as the author of one of greatest novels of the 20th century, he could not escape the realization that, at […]
It’s a little late, but Rush Limbaugh has finally begun to realize that he’s been played for decades by the Republican branch: You know what this was? This was perhaps, folks, one of the best illustrations of the whole concept that we’ve spoken here about on numerous occasions of the ruling class, the political class. […]
I’ve never quite understood those who genuinely appear to believe that I have any reason to be jealous of John Scalzi. Yes, I am presently running for the SFWA position he is vacating, and sure, I do regularly lay the metaphorical crosshairs on him, but anyone who can fail to see the vast amusement that […]
I happened to read two articles describing the same thing from very different perspectives earlier this week. Item One: Though few may doubt that Jewish life in America could be threatened, Gordis effectively explains why this luxury is precisely because of the modern state of Israel. In the most powerful passages of the lengthy piece, […]
TS appears to have learned his formidable debating skillz from the late Christopher Hitchens. He wrote, apropos of nothing, and without so much as a subject matter: I don’t recall Hitchens ever arguing a point solely by explaining how he “feels” about it. I fear that while your vocabulary may display the results of some […]