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Here we go again. The neocons never learn. We have a major invasion of the southern border, so naturally Washington has concerned itself with attempting to further delay the inevitable collapse of Iraq into Sunni, Shi’ite, and Kurd states. Nearly half of the roughly 300 U.S. military advisers and special operations forces expected to go […]
SFWA’s sordid history of harboring child molesters is not, as some of its defenders would have you believe, nothing but a relic of freaky 1960s SF fandom. From the 2010 SFWA Directory: Kowal, Mary Robinette (A) Secretary of SFWA [Address 1] [Address 2] [Telephone] secretary@secretary.org [personal email] www.maryrobinettekowal.com Twitter: maryrobinette [SFWA Agent Code] Kramer, Edward […]
The US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record “When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by […]
The Killing Season foreseen by Enoch Powell is coming: Angry villagers yesterday said riots could break out if police do not deal with hundreds of Roma immigrants who they claim have ruined their community. Residents of Hexthorpe, South Yorkshire, said people would take the law into their own hands unless the authorities step in to […]
I quite like David Brin’s Uplift Saga, particularly Startide Rising. It is innovative, insightful, and original. While it does betray a few hints of what would, in many later SF writers’ less-capable hands, blossom into full-blown political correctness, such strands do not detract from the story. Unlike the award-winning pinkshirts of today, Dr. Brin never […]
What is it with these Canadian SFWA members? A SF nonentity is foolish enough to call John C. Wright a liar despite the readily accessible public record: Andrew Barton @ActsofAndrewB John C Wright is either ignorant or a liar. Theodore Beale was kicked out of SFWA for using its Twitter feed to disseminate a racist […]
Ladies and gentlemen, Dread Ilk, casual fans, rubberneckers, anklebiters, and fellow Hugo Award nominees, I am very pleased indeed to announce to you that the Castalia House online store is now open for business. Our selection is somewhat scanty at present, as the participation of certain books in Amazon’s Kindle Select program precludes them from […]
I was asked to reconsider my position on uninstalling Mozilla products and refusing to use them in the future: You are probably here because you have been advised to consider reinstalling Firefox. You may, in fact, have uninstalled Firefox as a result of a recent campaign protesting either Brendan Eich’s being appointed CEO of Mozilla, […]
Ross Douthat points out the moral defect being exhibited by a corporation and a university in the New York Times, which happens to be identical to that previously demonstrated by a writer’s organization: In both cases, Mozilla and Brandeis, there was a striking difference between the clarity of what had actually happened and the evasiveness […]
No one can reasonably take the US position on Crimean self-determination seriously anymore. Even the New York Times appears to be uncomfortable with the Obama administration’s anti-democratic actions: They wanted to break away from a country they considered hostile. The central government cried foul, calling it a violation of international law. But with the help […]