At Ace, the failure of putting Space Swashbucklers in a Military Bureaucracy: Space travel in fiction has two major tropes in its depiction. I’m calling these the Institutional Phase, and the Commercial Phase. The beginning of space travel — and this is the same for any previous mode of difficult transportation — is the Institutional… Read More One of the Many Reasons Prometheus, and Prequels, don’t work.
The New York Post has the skinny on what ObamaCare is going to do for us. If you get your health insurance through a job, you might lose it as of Jan. 1, 2014. That’s when the new “employer mandate” kicks in, requiring employers with 50 or more full-time workers to provide the government-designed health… Read More This, My Progressive Friends, is What You Voted For…
Other McCain: …the day before your 18th birthday, you’re strictly off-limits, but the minute you are legally an adult, you’re fair game for the Furry Red Humping Machine. First Cookie Monster becomes a vegetarian, and now this. I never understood the charm of Elmo. He did nothing, served no purpose, that other characters did not already,… Read More I Just Knew Elmo Was Creepy…
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Perhaps the worst of all possible defeats are the unexpected. To go into a fight knowing loss is likely. that one can prepare for that. But to be certain that you will win, and to get ruthlessly denied, that staggers. I’ve spent a few days trying to figure out what in the name of all… Read More Okay. I’ve Shaken it Off.
I cannot write today. I am … “gobsmacked” is the only word that fits. The mind recoils in horror. I reel between anguish and rage. I’ll get over it. I’ll bounce back. I’ll find a way to deal. But today… I have nothing. Which is good, as there won’t be much for the Beast to… Read More So, That Happened.
Neo-Neocon penned a refutation on Friday (h/t: Ace) of the notion, oft fulsomely asserted in the 2008 campaign, that eloquence is a substitute for competence: Wordsmiths fancy they could govern quite well, if only they cared to. Neither the skills nor the knowledge base of oration or of writing—especially fiction, although it’s also true of… Read More Politics and the Eloquence Fallacy
Anarchy is never as fun as you think it’s going to be. “I would take a looter with a boa. If I felt threatened I would definitely use it,” said Keone Singlehurst, 42. “Its like the Wild West. A borderline lawless situation.” City Councilman James Sanders (D-Far Rockaway) said he fears the situation will devolve… Read More Anarchy in Queens
I set the day aside to finally restore the house to it’s pre-Sandy condition; un-batten the hatches if you will. I had a list made over breakfast: put the deck furniture back, plug in everything in the basement, get my office computer back on, hit the dump, hit the hardware store, and then possibly set… Read More Hello, Autumn. Nice to See You Again.
I lost power for 24 hours, then I got it back. No flooding, save for a trickle that made it into my fusebox and shorted out my smoke detectors, which has since been remedied. Nora even got to have a Halloween. So there’s no way I’m going to bemoan my fate, when New York City… Read More Why I’m Not Blogging About Sandy or the Election
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