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SONS OF LIBERTY VS. NATIONAL FRONT- Jeb Kinnison

Did You Think It Would Be Easy?

SONS OF LIBERTY VS. NATIONALFRONT- Jeb Kinnison

I’ve tried to concentrate on the next book, but events conspire to suck me into the current mess re Trump. Like a lot of observers, so long as he was a sideshow I could see his almost-daily newsmaking as colorful and perhaps useful in allowing others to speak more freely some of the things that needed to be spoken. By doing so he was expanding theOverton Windowand giving a voice to sentiments held by large segme...

Role Playing – A Blast From The Past From Jan 2013

Role Playing – A Blast From The Past From Jan 2013

The other day I found myself reading this study about overpopulation. Well, the study was supposedly about overpopulation, at least. I’m talking about Calhoun’s study on rats in a cage, rats who were supplied with every possible resource and yet, supposedly, when the population went above a certain density, found themselves exhibiting various pathologies, some of which will sound eerily familiar: a period of oversexuality leads rapidly to a p...

It’s a Wild, Wild, Wild Promo post – Free Range Oyster

It’s a Wild, Wild, Wild Promo post – Free Range Oyster Karen Myers To Carry the Horn – A Virginian in Elfland The Hounds of Annwn Book 1

NEW JOB, NEW FAMILY, AND IN TWO WEEKS THE END OF A WORLD HE’S JUST DISCOVERED, IF HE CAN’T RISE TO THE CHALLENGE.

George Talbot Traherne is just doing his job on a fine autumn morning, keeping the hounds together for the huntsman of the Rowanton Hunt in Virginia along the Blue Ridge Mountain. Doesn’t pay to get distracted by a white stag in unfamiliar terri...

The War On Competence

There is a war on. People who can do things, even just the things our parents could do, or less, are losing.

I noticed it first in elementary school. Not MY elementary school, with a tiny class and an 70 year old teacher who always seemed faintly surprised when someone wasn’t learning. And who backed her surprise with a wooden ruler when she thought someone was WILLFULLY not learning. (Yeah, she sometimes misfired on that. There were obvious disabilities, like the mentally slow girl to whom s...

I Went Interstellar

And I forgot to buy the four mugs I wanted to bring back.

Okay, technically I went to a workshop on how to promote/organize/achieve interstellar travel. And it was great. I was one of the few people with very little technical training, because technical/scientific translation doesn’t help that much. But it did help me to sort of understand what was going on (as did the fact I read everything I can get my hands on about space travel.)

I came back with a reading list and an idea on how to final...

Darkship Revenge

*So this is the book I’m finishing right now. Or at least this is the first chapter*

Beginning And End Battle Born

I never wanted to be a mother.

Bioengineered madmen had created me, assembled me protein by protein, to be the Eve of a new race, the start of a new humanity. My name is Athena Hera Sinistra. The woman without a mother, the mother of a race of gods.

Alas I seem destined to disappoint all expectations, including my own.

Being a girl raised without a mother, by a man who cared mor...

Prepare to Be Assimilated – a 3 month old blast from the past

Prepare to Be Assimilated – a 3 month old blast from the past

*I usually don’t do this recent a blast from the past but this is the other side of the coin from mine “I was born American” post. And it serves to illustrate the case nativists are just another side of the coin of the crazy “culture is inherited genetically” SJWs who think it’s racist to ask you to drop your culture in favor of the country you’re now living in. Yeah, acculturation is hard. Harder from some cultures than others. It...

Encouraging a Writer -Christopher Nuttall

*This is a good day to run this post of Christopher’s. Normally I’d run it at Mad Genius Club, since it’s mostly about writing and how to constructively critique a work. But it runs deeper than that.

Today is the 29th of February, aka blogger appreciation day. This year I’m not doing badly or in financial trouble, unlike four years ago. I do however put in at least three solid blogs and a bunch of hosting a week, and if you average it out with what I get from the blog it’s about $5 a blog.

No...

I Was Born American – A Blast From The Past 7-4-2014

I Was Born American – A Blast From The Past 7-4-2014

Yes, I was born in another country of foreign parents who would no more become American than fly unassisted, (and who desire it less than they wish to have have their heads shaved by a warthog) but I figure that was an accident of circumstance. What really matters is that I was an American in my heart. I just had to get here and become one in truth. (And that, by itself, is an American attitude.)

This week while talking to a friend about h...

A Presumption of Innocence – Amanda S. Green

A Presumption of Innocence – Amanda S. Green

One of the most fundamental premises of criminal law in this nation is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. This one idea – or ideal, if you prefer – places the burden of proof on the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone is guilty of an offense. What that means is the State simply can’t accuse someone of committing an offense, jail them, smear their name and hold them unless and until the accused manages to prove their...