The Recorder, a California legal newspaper and online source, had a correction to its news article about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s latest propaganda on the legal system: Correction The Recorder Due to a reporting error, Thursday’s story about a survey ranking state liability systems incorrectly stated that survey participants included in-house counsel at companies [...]
Oh, man. Where to begin. The current-but-outgoing vice president of the SFWA wrote a barely-coherent tantrum about the evils of a) artists who give away their work FOR FREE!!! b) on THE INTERNET!!!!. Because it interferes with a good, old-fashioned, wood-chopping way of life where if you want to call people idiots, you have to [...]
The literary scene has been agog about Kirino’s newer book, Grotesque. It didn’t appeal to me much, so I picked up her earlier book, Out. It’s hard to read. There’s a deep current of despair; this isn’t the slick, techno-clever Japan of an Isaac Adamson or William Gibson novel. The protagonists are women who work [...]
Chris Clarke has some helpful suggestions for gentlemen who wish to discuss sexual harassment, gender on the Internet and stalking in a rational, dispassionate manner.
Well, not really; Reno’s in the high desert. But I will be at trial camp all week and probably blogging even less than usual.
Since I needed to spend some time lying around, and there are only so many unoccupied computers at once in our house: Daughter of Hounds is kind of a sequel to Low Red Moon. I was a little iffy about picking this one up, especially since the cover art looked like an attempt to sell [...]
I bought a food processor many years ago just so I wouldn’t have to prepare this by hand. (Dates are sticky.) This is kind of a Sephardic/New World mashup, adapted from a recipe in Nina Rousso’s The Passover Gourmet. Ashkenazic charoset is pretty bland stuff. I don’t even remember what the charoset I had growing [...]
Lynn at Noli Irritare Leones has a very thoughtful post on the tension between the perspective of privilege and the perspective from where you sit.
While the rest of you are eating your chocolate bunnies and jellybeans and picking out pastel stuff to wear to the Egg Hunt, we’ll be talking about how our ancestors were slaves in Egypt, and were freed after our god visited plagues and death on our oppressors. Also, there will be lamb.