Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 337

Learning to UN-Think

When I was very little I was afraid of all sorts of things, including that devils/trolls/evil creatures would grab me from the back of grandma’s garden.

This was probably the result of trying to make me properly afraid of SOMETHING so I wouldn’t run up to strangers or try to pet the neighbor’s semi-feral pig, or equally crazy adventures.

But what it did was make me so afraid that I had entire sets of prayers that started playing in my head when heading out of sight of adults. It took me till...

A Destiny Beyond the Crab Bucket – Kate Paulk

*Kate is now in the process of becoming an American. And this is why I’ll borrow beg or hitchhike to go to her swearing in ceremony. She’s one of us. She won’t take that oath lightly. And even despite the last 8 years and the present political insanity, she’s CHOOSING us.- SAH*

A Destiny Beyond the Crab Bucket – Kate Paulk

Nature or Nurture, DNA or Culture

In a sane world, the answer is “yes”.

It’s become self-evident that we do not live in a sane world. We have people trying to simultaneou...

Standard Bearers

When I was very little mom used to sing a song about standard bearers. Note the colors were different, since she wasn’t talking about the US. It went like this, loosely translated:

Soldier in combat
If you see the standard bearer
Fall with the flag in his hands
Pick it up and raise it
A red and green rag
And you hold the country in your hands.

That always gave me chills, even when I was too young to understand the real significance, even when I didn’t know what a standard bearer was, or a war...

Mediocre Expectations

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My childhood upbringing included a lot of jokes about Spaniards. I’m sure they’re the same type of jokes that Frenchmen tell about Englishmen and vice versa, that Germans tell about Frenchmen and vice-versa.

It is one of those funny things that liberals can’t seem to integrate in their war-as-missunderstanding meme. The more two human tribes live close to/know each...

The State Of The Writer and Eine Kleines Summer Promo

At this point I can’t hide it from you. Yep. I know. You have eyes like the eagle and noses like the fox and minds like something that has really big minds, and frankly, I wish you’d get all that integrated because you look really funny.

Yep. I’m sick. Well, for me the thing is up in the air. I’m either really, really sick, or I’m suffering one of those “I’ve never seen an auto-immune attack like this.” I mean, I am suffering immune attack from h*ll. You can tell by the fact there’s no skin l...

Destroying our heroes – William Lehman

Destroying our heroes – William Lehman

So now, I’m told http://www.newsarama.com/29456-brevoort-on-captain-america-steve-rogers-1-shocker-we-knew-it-would-be-like-slapping-people-in-the-face.html that Steve Rogers is, and always was, a Nazi. Ya know, in the great circus that is life, such a little thing as this, and compared to a possible war with China, the disaster that this presidential election is, a Submarine nuclear missile capable North Korea, a president that’s selling our country dow...

In The Land Of The Afflicted

So, the short story will get done, promise, sometime tonight or tomorrow. I wasted — not quite, but — all of yesterday trying to break into instapundit. Not that they locked me out on purpose, mind. They just changed systems and the fact my computer hates me did the rest. I’m back in, now, but it took some doing.

Anyway, so that leaves me behind on Revenge (a dish best served edited) and with the story still unwritten — though I know it’s about Simon — and with Royal blood to finish, and…

Whi...

There Will Be A Post

I’m actually hoping to put up a short story to support Through Fire, which is now available in ebook only on Amazon. But I’ll be honest and it might be tomorrow, as I’m trying to finish Darkship Revenge before the packing to move recommences.

So, for now, there’s this, if you’re inclined to buy and read. And by the by the by there will be story.

A bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes

I will first confess, mea culpa, that I’m always doubtful when I see headlines that say “Collapse Imminent.” I’ve seen them every other week since I have lived in the US. I’ve come to the conclusion that anticipating collapse is an American past time. Perhaps because we are aware of how much we have, and how well we live. Perhaps it’s a sense of “this can’t go on.”

On the other hand nations do collapse, and I lived through a controlled, slow collapse where the statistics looked much worse tha...

Pia Glenn of xoJane again attempts to Explain feminism- Julie Pascal

Pia Glenn of xoJane again attempts to Explain feminism- Julie Pascal

Pia Glenn of xoJane again attempts to Explain feminism. (I know it’s “again” because this is the second most important thing that feminists do.)

A bit ago actress Maisie Williams of “Game of Thrones” innocently announced the plain truth, the elephant in the room, the evidence before her own eyes, and the shock of it all is still being felt.

“And then someone explained [feminism] to me. And I remember thinking, “Isn’t that ju...