Voting Sometimes Feels Futile.
Voting sometimes feels futile, doesn’t it? Yeah, it does, but we can’t let that make ourselves complacent.
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Category Archives: Stupidity
Frankly, I’m Embarrassed to be Your Colleague
To my fellow science fiction and fantasy writers.
Merriam-Webster online defines professionalism as follows: “the skill, good judgment, and polite behavior that is expected from a person who is trained to do a job well” The science fiction and fantasy genre is woefully lacking in such.
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The Great Science Fiction Civil War Part 6 (In Which I Express My Frustration)
The Great Science Fiction Civil War, Part 6
In Which I Express My Frustration
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The Great Science Fiction Civil War – Part 5 (The Death Threats)
The Great Science Fiction Civil War – Part 5
The Death threats
I didn’t plan to post about this today. What happened is this: I jumped onto Facebook and saw a link to this blog post by Mary Robinette Kowal, who interrupted her vacation from the internet … Continue reading
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The Great Science Fiction Civil War, Part 3
The Great Science Fiction Civil War Rages On
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Arizona Attempts to Legislate Chemistry
Government Can’t Pass Physical Laws
Last night, Arizona governor Doug Ducey signed a bill into law that severely restricts the permissibility for abortions in the state of Arizona to be paid under any ACA (Obamacare) insurance plan. But, that isn’t what I’m posting about. As in many controvertial issues, both … Continue reading
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Politics Trumps Science
Politics Trumps Science
There has been a lot of climate change news with the recent issue of yet another climate change report underscoring the dangers of anthropogenic climate change due mainly to release of CO2 into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels. Short-sighted politicians swayed by even shorter-sighted … Continue reading
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Here We Go Again – SB 1062 / HB 2153
Here we go again. The Arizona Legislature, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to pass a “religious freedom” bill making legal discrimination against doing business with anyone who doesn’t comply with a person’s religion. This was in response to a lawsuit filed in New Mexico over a wedding photographer who … Continue reading
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Thursday Thoughts – Disappointment in my Country
This is a post I’ve been mulling over for a long time, and I hesitated to write it for a number of reasons. Looks like it has turned into a core dump. It is motivated by the blowup in SFWA over a number of articles and the cover of an … Continue reading
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Barnes and Noble Apologizes to Omar Amin
After the bad publicity Barnes and Noble got from yesterday’s newspaper article, they have apologized to Dr. Amin. Here is the story.