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August 21, 2018
Ripples
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I was reading a book years ago about the medieval concepts of the after life, and came across the idea that you won’t be released from purgatory (at ease, the middle ages were by and large Catholic, of course) till the last ripple of your actions has worked itself out in the world.
The concept is terrifying, even for normal human beings. That kid you raised well or badly raised another kid who perhaps got to be a king or a mass murderer or you know Karl Marx, and where do the ripples stop? ...
August 20, 2018
Fear
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I’ve been getting concerned messages from friends around the country asking me if our lefty colleagues have completely lost their minds these last two months.
Mind you, these are friends who are immersed in mixed politics circles, sometimes on half of a politically mixed marriage. So I have no clue why they think I have special insight. Well, perhaps because I lurk, unnoticed and long-forgotten in a lot of writers’ newsgroups, where someone to the right of Lenin is a rarity.
I know I’ve to...
August 19, 2018
Picture Challenge and Sunday Book Promo
So today the internet hamsters ate the word-prompt for the Sunday Challenge. I am therefore giving you a picture, this time not mine.
It is copyright thanh262k @ pixabay.com and it’s released under creative commons license.
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Have at it!
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 downloa...
August 18, 2018
Why did Bernie Run? – By Amanda S. Green
Or, why didn’t he run further, faster and straight to the nearest Socialist country where he’d feel right at home?
In my last post, I started covering the “why did Bernie run?” question. He didn’t want a political dynasty taking control of our nation. He oh-so-conveniently forgot about the Kennedys or the Roosevelts. Instead, he focused on making sure another Bush or Clinton didn’t find their way to the Oval Office. While I appreciate not wanting Hilla...
August 17, 2018
The State of the Human Wave – Fiction Version by Alma Boykin
Short version – a lot better than when the idea was, ahem, floated, in 2012. [2012? That’s… a while ago. A geologic epoch in Internet years. Anyway.]
The original post: https://accordingtohoyt.com/2012/03/21/what-is-human-wave-science-fiction-3/
Sarah followed it up a little later: Human Wave Dreaming in August of that year.
Since then, indie sci-fi and fantasy have blossomed as the walls of publishing crumbled. First, Amazon’s Kin...
August 16, 2018
From Were You Dream
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Stand back. I’m going to disagree with Jordan Peterson.
Yes, I know, even great men are allowed to have a blind spot, but his is a doozy and three miles wide: even through everything he’s gone through, he still believes that the preponderance of liberals in the arts and creative professions is because “liberals are creative personalities, willing to take risks.”
Dear Lord. What is wrong with that wouldn’t fit in a library filled with books the size of the Oxford dictionary, in tiny print,...
August 15, 2018
Kiss Your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano, Part II, A Vulcanology Primer – By Stephanie Osborn
There are ~170 active volcanos in the United States of America, most in Alaska and Hawaii, though there are quite a few along the West Coast states.
There are only an e...
August 14, 2018
The Sons And Daughters Of The Future – A blast from the past from 2/25/14
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*Sorry guys. I was going to put up a guest post, but we had to run errands early morning, so it would be late, and I don’t do that to guest posts. And I’m running a (very mild) fever due to something son brought home from rotations. (See, we should never have taught him to share.) So I’m sorry, but it’s a blast from the past. – SAH*
Almost twenty three years ago, right after I’d given birth, I was handed this slim pamphlet that started with how I couldn’t hope to mold my child. I remembe...
August 13, 2018
Doing Evil by Doing “Good”
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There is a peculiar strangeness to virtues, to those things we strive to practice and which are good for us and society in general: you have to know when to stop.
An excess of virtue seems to turn to vice and derange the mind just enough that it doesn’t realize what it’s doing.
Perhaps part of it is that we’re a less religious society, so some people have never been warned of the dangers of keeping the form but forgetting the purpose. Or perhaps because so many people have forgotten the ide...
August 12, 2018
Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike & Sunday 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 download a sample and make sure it’s to your taste. If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to at outlook dot com. One book per author per week. Amazon links only.-SAH*
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