Michael Flynn's Blog, page 67

Incisive Analysis

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Mr. DeLay, the Texas Republican who had been the House majority leader, crowed that he had been "found innocent." But many of Mr. DeLay's actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them. -- New York Times editorial on the Justice Department's decision to drop its investigation of Tom DeLay

Who can contest such insightful logic?

Bill Joneses

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"That four-eyed maverick has sand in his craw a-plenty."-- Three-Seven Bill Jones, regarding Teddy Roosevelt at the annual cattle roundup along the Little Missouri, Dakota Territory
(Three-Seven Bill Jones is not to be confused with Hell-Roaring Bill Jones, Texas Bill Jones, or any of the other men in western Dakota calling themselves "Bill Jones")

from the Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

[Hell Roaring:] Bill Jones [the sheriff:] was a gun-fighter and also a good man with his f...

Up the River

Reviews of Up Jim River

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction has a review of my baby. 

Flynn has been writing excellent sf novels for years, but many readers didn’t sit up and take notice until his novel Eifelheim was nominated for the 2007 Hugo Award.  Since then he has published a handful of truly superior novels, all delicately balanced in that elusive sweet spot between commercial and literary sf. My favorite of these remains The Wreck of the River of Stars, a novel so...

The Radio of the Future

The Radio of the Future as Conceived in 1942


h/t Paleofuture

Ominous Signs in the Battle Against Vegetation

Is This Some Kind of Trend?

It's Always in the Last Place You Look
"You Cannot Pea Serious! Doctors Amazed to Find Vegetable Growing in Pensioner's Lung"--headline, Daily Mail (London), Aug. 12

See this previous post:  http://m-francis.livejournal.com/tag/fir%20trees%20in%20lungs [2nd item:]

The Commemoration of Teresia Benedicta of the Cross

Edith Stein was born in Breslau on 12 October 1891, the youngest of 11, as her family were celebrating Yom Kippur, although she stopped practicing Judaism at age 14.  She was a brilliant student, with an interest in philosophy and in women's issues. (She became a member of the Prussian Society for Women's Franchise.) 

In 1913, she transferred to Göttingen University, where she studied under Edmund Husserl. 

During WW1 she volunteered as a nurse.  She looked after the sick in the...

Brow-beaten

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"That an art has become confined to high-brow tastes is a sign that it is dying."
-- Brandon Watson

http://branemrys.blogspot.com/2010/07/on-symptom-of-deteriorating-artistic.html

How does Wright write right?

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The worst thing a writer can do is add some element to his story merely because the real-life events on which the story is based actually happened that way. Real life is not realistic. Real life is filled with strange and baffling coincidences. Real life is startling and defeats all expectations and accounts. In real life, the wicked prosper and the good are punished. In other words, real life is not believable. If you must introduce a realistic element in a story, by wh...

Who'd a-thunk it?

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