So in the wake of RaceFail 2009, John Scalzi rethinks his reflexive “no way am I putting my hand in THAT blender” position, and invites Mary Anne Mohanraj to write a guest blog post. Which she does in a thoughtful, kind, non-blaming, We Can Work It Out sort of way full of linky goodness. And [...]
I have an aversion to books that are part of a trilogy or other mult-ology. I’m better with series books, like the Discworld novels or the Old Man’s War novels, where each book is complete by itself, and reading the previous books is helpful but not strictly necessary. But when I’m deciding to invest time [...]
One of the best posts about being called “politically correct” by assholes, ever. Share and Enjoy:
The main difference being that cockroaches don’t have the ability to whine loudly about how you’re shining light on them. Share and Enjoy:
Bear Stearns shareholders were saved from owning a bankrupt company, JP Morgan got the Fed to guarantee its risky investment, the Unitary Executive Unclear on the Concept is proposing fake regulations and less of them, stocks shot up on news of massive job losses, and “foreclosure relief” bills are doing very little for consumers but [...]
I would have been set to talk about The Janissary Tree, which promises to be a fairly intriguing book, except that I got to page 54 and discovered that pages 55 to 86 are MISSING. This in an autographed copy. I am really not happy about having to exchange a book during the hellacious shopping [...]
I can teach my daughters about Photoshop, and patriarchy, and that people who tell them “you’d be beautiful if only….” are just trying to get them to fall into line. But is all that going to be as powerful as the onslaught of messages they get from everywhere else? Share and Enjoy: