Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 200

Lies and Truths

[image error]

We live in a very weird time, in which people dont even seem to think of lie and truth as things, but instead seem to believe whatever pleases them best, and run with it. Only that explains the abundance of contradictory beliefs the left holds to, and the fierceness they hold to them.

Honestly I think part of it is that the adherents to the self-proclaimed party of science, most of whom have never taken a science class more complex than what I took in 9th grade (if THAT) have read something...

Of Books, Compassion and Cruelty A Blast From the Past From June 2013

Yesterday I got caught up in a Facebook argument about public libraries and care for the homeless.

Well, I sort of got caught up – sort of, as usual I missed most of it, because a) I was hanging out here with you reprobates b) the time normally devoted to writing was devoted to sleeping. [Long disquisition on what was going on at the time elided.]

This discussion got me thinking, and btw, you are warned this might be the world’s longest blog post because I’m zombified and therefore can’t...

Post Delayed

I have a doctor’s appointment today and meant to cue a blast from the past, but Murphy has been unusually active and time got away from me. More later.

Every Generation

[image error]

May I ask whose brilliant idea it was to indoctrinate new generations on the need to have fewer children?

No, no, don’t answer. I’ve read a lot of science fiction written in the mid twentieth century, and I know. The thinking parts of the culture in the dawn of the current era of abundance had time and leisure to get all panicky about excess population and how we were killing the planet, and a lot of other rather emo nonsense.

Also I went to school shortly after the middle of the twentieth...

Alive and Well

We had a computer crisis this morning. It’s been a slow-mo thing around the house. I think was an update. Render computer also working now!
But it took a good two/three hours, and then… other things intervened.

Please forgive me. I’m postponing promo a week.

Witch’s Daughter, Free Novel in Installments

*”Why the return of the Free Novel In Installments?” you ask. Mostly for the same reason I wrote Witchfinder in installments on this blog: because it’s Saturday and I don’t want to think of a topic to write. Also because I want to be able to write my posts for PJ on the weekend, which means I don’t want to have to write non fic for myself as well on the same days. This has the great advantage that once I’m done with a novel, I can publish it and get money.
This novel is a sequel to...

Friday Update

It’s Friday and I don’t feel like doing a post.

The good news — knocks on head — is that I seem to finally be getting over “whatever the heck this was.” The bad news is that I’m ridiculously late on everything, including promised covers.

So, I’ll get to those and finishing a few stories, and…. well, I suppose the house needs dusting, really.

So, today, for your amusement “Covers you can get from Pixabay, which are basically covers and ready to go.” And hopefully spotlighting a few artists....

Knowledge and Culture

[image error]

I had no idea what to call this post. Calling it “if you go to the past take wipes” seemed a little over the top. Also didn’t fit on that line.

Mind you, I’d advise the same if you go traveling, even not in a time of Kung-flu. But that’s because I grew up elsewhere, and I’ve traveled.

In a previous post, I mentioned that when the American left started screaming that the right was accusing Chinese of the “stereotype” of being dirty, I was flabbergasted. I often don’t get American stereotypes...

The Poor Starving, Burglaring Father And Other Fantasy Tales – a blast from the past from May 2013

[image error] The Poor Starving, Burglaring Father And Other Fantasy Tales – a blast from the past from May 2013

So, yesterday Glenn Reynolds linked to this story at Hot Air about a home invader (IN TEXAS!) who was so unfortunate (as well as stupid) as to lock the son of the homeowner in the gun closet… Hilarity ensued.

Only, as I was getting ready to go out and unable to work in those ten minutes or so, I thought it would be a good idea to read the comments. Which was fine too, except…

Except that I came...

The Eyes of the Future

[image error]

You know the left side of the isle loves to talk about the eyes of the future and the judgement of history. And in almost every case in my lifetime in which they’ve invoked such imaginary opinions, they’ve been completely wrong.

Mostly, you know, because they think history comes with an arrow, and that the future will be exactly like them, only more so. And to an extent some parts of society have been like that. For the most part the parts of society that do not “root, hog or die.”

BUT...