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Open Floor

Okay, guys. So yesterday that post was…. epic. And really hard to write.
So, today I’m sort of taking the day off.
Post links to anything you want me to see.
And if you can post funny/interesting links.
Or tell me how you’re coping, and what you’re doing to get by.

Because I’m not going to lie, it’s tough right now.

I’m going to try to do some writing. You have the con.

Everywhere

Yesterday I came across an opinion by Michael Yon that violence has already started, this month. I don’t know what he’s referring to specifically, because I’d either put it at a year ago, or perhaps further back. But then I’m not plugged into his networks.

He does see civil war coming, inescapably, and like me he puts the conflagration very close.

Okay, it’s …. right. Like this: I perhaps don’t see it as close as it sounds. Yes, there’s been a ramping up of violence, largely on purpos...

Come On, Take It, a blast from the past from January 2014

Come On, Take It, a blast from the past from January 2014

Yesterday, on a private forum a friend of mine who here will go under the name Sam Anderson said the following:

Patriotism is good. Nationalism through a patriotic lens, seeing your country as worthwhile, as having prospects and things to be proud of, is not only acceptable but necessary for the health of any nation. But MOST especially the United States, because it’s one thing for the French to be ashamed of being French, b...

The Junta’s Abolition of the Constitution

I linked this at instapundit some time ago. But from the fact that a friend sent me this link today, I presume it’s not widely known. The link I put at instapundit was from American Thinker. And for once their title was the most accurate thing ever: Executive Order Canceling the Constitution.

If you’re wondering how that is possible, wonder no more. You know how our government freezes assets of enemy governments? Like Iran’s assets that the FICUS is dying to unfreeze ASAP?

Well, t...

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

*Yes, I know this is ridiculously late. Nothing catastrophic happened, just after a week of snow we had a ton of stuff we needed to do outside the house. Let’s say I’ve done a full day’s work already. BUT better late than never. – SAH*

Book Promo

*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog.  Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that we’ve read them and/or endorse them, unless we specifically say so.  As with all such purchases, we recommend you down...

Now It Can Be Told

Around the end of 2020, I got an email. Believe it or not these emails aren’t unusual. They also usually come to nothing. It goes something like We’d like to buy x rights to your short story/novel/series and/or we’d like you write for our awesome comic/movie/game.

Usually these are students, or young people, and they are trying to start something on shoestring, are not prepared to pay, and I’m not prepared to either give them a property I then have tied up (I might be willing to give short ...

Clean Your Room

This is not a literal injunction, though — looks around her zoo of a house — by all means, clean your house/room if you need to. For us, I’m packing stuff I won’t use for a while, until we settle, so we can move it to storage and finish flooring this house, and getting it ready to go up.

But one thing that 2020 and 2020 Won have done for me is make my principles and my options clear as crystal. And I think it is important to do that. You need to be very clear on what matters to you, wh...

Believing In The Future – A Guest Post By James Cambias

Believing In The Future – A Guest Post By James Cambias

I’ve got a new book coming out from Baen, called The Godel Operation. It’s an attempt to do far-future, hard-SF space opera. The story is set at the end of the Tenth Millennium, when a billion worlds circle the Sun. It’s full of Big Stuff: giant space habitats! An exawatt laser powered by black holes! The planet Mercury dismantled and turned into a titanic computer ring around the Sun! It was a lot of fun to write, and I’m working on...

On Sparing The Rod

Justice is either the same for everyone, or it’s not justice.

People are either punished according to their deeds and those deeds injuriousness to society, or they aren’t. But even the most lax of systems, in which everyone is left to defend themselves as best they can is better than one in which the law plays favorites.

I was thinking of this yesterday when I read this news article: Columbus Ohio Release Body Cam Footage of Police Officer Shooting 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant Just Befor...

Forbidden Coffee (A guest post by King Harv Coffees)

*I first heard of King Harv coffees when Professor Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection gloated (not to strong a word) over having been sent one of their coffees as a gift, during a difficult time in his blogging/professional life.
I was briefly and wildly jealous. Wished I was a big time blogger. Cruised over to their site and decided that really, the family needed stuff, so I shouldn’t spend it on coffee.
Imagine my surprise when, towards the end of annus horriblis 2020 I was clearing my spam fi...