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White nights and Nerves

As most of you know I intensely dislike woo woo stuff. Which is part of the reason I wrote the post last night.

Now, there is a fine line between woo woo stuff and “My subconscious does a lot of the thinking for me and it’s highly uneasy with something I can’t pin down.” (The subconscious things is where the novels come from. Either that or I’m an instrument receiving transmissions from novel-land. I don’t like the last, so I’ll go with the first. And I know I do a lot of thinking subcons...

The Cuckoo In Our Nest

I think all of us know a cuckoo’s reproductive strategy: they lay an egg in another bird’s nest. The hatchling pushes out the other eggs/hatchlings, and the poor bird whose progeny was murdered works itself to death feeding a massive bird that killed them.

So, what about the cuckoo in our nest?

We have a government that got in through illegitimate process, some of them blatant, dancing, in your face fraud. All of you who doubt that should read what Larry Correia had to say on the numbe...

Barbarism

It is no sin being a barbarian. But it’s no virtue either. And if it’s not changed, you and your culture are in for a world of pain.

I’m going to blame this on a friend’s post on facebook A Renowned Archaeologist Is Calling on European Museums to Return the Rosetta Stone and Other Historic Treasures.

My answer — more polite than the Renowed Archeologist deserves was as follows:

Don’t give toys to the barbarians. The end.
That applies to everything: Guns, precious artifacts, Art.
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Victory!

Okay THREE things:

1) There is a real post coming. This is just to let you know how it turned out. Also, I am running exceptionally late, and need to shower and get dressed before I write (No, I didn’t wake this late. I’ve just been dealing with things, cats included.)

2) This book is substantially the same as the Baen edition. We fixed a dozen typos (There’s ALWAYS typos, no matter how carefully edited, and added an afterword, but other than that, if you own the Baen ebook, you’ve read th...

The Problems of Bureaucracy

Louis XIV invented bureaucracy in its current form to keep the up and coming bourgeois and the old noblemen occupied and out of his way. And I hope he burns in hell for it.

There is a scene in The Twelve Labors of Asterix that completely captures what I’ve been going through for the last 3 days trying to prove to Amazon that I have my permission to publish my own work. It’s when Asterix has to go through the House That Makes You Mad.

He has to get a permission slip to go to the window ...

Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

*In keeping with the fact the last few days have been full of Murphy’s blessings, (Including a subscription to mid journey bot, which I can’t activate for …. reasons I don’t understand.) I’m now engaged in a full tilt (at windmills) battle with Amazon to publish Darkship Thieves. While it’s perfectly normal for them to ask for the reversal letter, this time they decided to take stupid pills. So after I sent them the reversal letter, they decided to tell me it didn’t have my name or Baen’s. ...

De Gusta-Books Non Est Disputandum by Foxfier

*Sarah Speaking: I realize it’s evil to hit you with essentially 2 promo posts in a row. But today we’re going to be running around like crazy people (ducttape-grandkids coming mid-week) and yesterday night Valeria-cat announced she wasn’t feeling so good by peeing all over our bed. Twice. So, I’ll write post on Monday. These two days I run around like crazy -SAH*

De Gusta-Books Non Est Disputandum by Foxfier

Look, if you like a book, you like a book. It’s really not something ...

Stop the Beatings

It will probably surprise no one here, subjected as you have been to my random brain-drops for years, but the thing that made the most difference to me in Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules was the rule that said: Treat yourself as though you were someone you love, for whose well being you’re wholly responsible.

I don’t think I’m alone in that. A lot of us born in or after the middle of the last century were so disgusted by the message of hedonism and self-centeredness of the times, that we ran ...

Rains of Spiders and Women Birthing Snakes

Or perhaps this should be called “They rejected our reality and substituted their own.”

Nah, I’ll stand by my title.

My grandmother, who was sane as a brick, became curiously credulous in her old age, that is after the grandchildren had married and moved out of the village and her house was no longer the nerve center of the family.

There was nothing wrong with her brain. Her brain worked as well as it ever had. If you told her a girl down the street had given birth to a snake, she’d...

That Old Rusty Future

In Kate Paulk’s Con Vampire series, she has the forces of evil gather at science fiction conventions.

Now, part of that is necessity of the set up. Her character is a vampire who hangs out at science fiction conventions because there really is no natural light inside the hotels, as long as he’s careful, and it beats sleeping all day and wandering the empty streets at night.

So, of course, the big bad will also have to be at the cons.

But she has a good explanation nonetheless (becau...