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A Plague of Talents

Most Christians and probably most non-Christians in western civilization are familiar with the parable of the talents. For those not, the quick summation is as follows: a man gives his servants some amount of money each. After a while he calls it back, and it’s not enough to return it untouched. If you have made no return on the investment you’ll be punished.

For people of faith, it is normal to consider the “talents” as, well, talents, G-d given and for which we owe a return. In other words...

On Teacher’s Kids, and Hugos

Rules are for the “LITTLE” People. Yes, there will be a post later, but it might be tomorrow. Because this is important and those of you not at Mad Genius SHOULD be aware of it. -SAH

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Now, I was a teacher’s kid – a child at the same school my mother taught at. Teachers’ kids tend to meet other teachers’ kids. I’ve never heard any one of them have this experienced any differently, so I would guess it is pretty universal: besides it makes sense. Authority is assumed to bias in favo...

Promo Post, the Triskaidekaphobia Edition- Jason Dyck

*Happy Valentines day to all of you. I’ll be celebrating with my sweetie.- SAH*

Promo Post, the Triskaidekaphobia Edition- Jason Dyck Cedar Sanderson Warp Resonance

Five Space Opera tales, short stories and novellas with a foreward written by Peter Grant.

Tamashira has a dilemma. Stay with the ship and crew she knows, or risk being stranded on an unknown planet forever when the warp node goes out of resonance. Really, it’s not a hard decision to make. But then a girl is kidnapped and she mus...

The Games People Play

So, a site that shall not be named mostly because I don’t want to deal with them today, (since I have a rather tight schedule this week), has long been in the habit of “skimming till offended” and taking a sentence or two out of context which they then use to feed their mental-ward of psychos so they can engage in demonizing everyone not establishment-sf.

No site not-establishement-sf is too small, as posts by friends and distant associates with a couple of indie novellas out are scrutinized...

Fog Blind

When our older son was interviewing with medschools, on the night of his return from one, his plane was diverted to Denver because of fog.

Normally when this sort of thing happens, the fog is at a high enough level that it doesn’t affect people on the ground, or not much beyond the airport, which, in customary fashion is at one end of the city.

And normally we’d have waited till the morning, since the airline would get him home sooner or later. Actually, if he hadn’t had a test the next morni...

That Time the Parties Agreed to Switch Sides by Matthew Bowman

That Time the Parties Agreed to Switch Sides by Matthew Bowman

We continue our myth-blasting here at ATH; but Sarah asked me to handle this one, because she’sbusy doing stufflike“working on a book” and “moving” (transparent excuses, but we’ll letit slide for now).

Today’s topic was inspired by a mutual acquaintance’s encounter with someone who was perpetuating the myth that anything bad that was done by Democrats in the past, particularly having to do with racism, isn’t an indictment on the...

Let’s not repeat history, please – Amanda S. Green

Let’s not repeat history, please – Amanda S. Green

Back in January, I wrote a post asking “how far down the slippery slope are going to go?”. That phrase came back to me this morning as I was reading my way through the interwebs. Between the different posts speculating about yesterday’s primary in New Hampshire and what the results mean, the continued discussion of whether or not Cam Newton is a bad sport – He is and he admits it – there was a story about a 20-something leaving San Francisco...

The Architecture of Fear — A blast from the past from 4/12/15

*I normally don’t do blasts from the past this recent, but somehow this one called to me this morning, and I can’t even tell you why. I hope one of you knows! *1 And Sorry, not awake this morning, so did the date European style. Sigh.- SAH*

The Architecture of Fear — A blast from the past from 4/12/15*1

Years ago on this blog I talked about Technique of The Coup D’Etat by Giovanni Guareschi and I typed the beginning in here. I shall copy that. (Assume typos are mine.)

At ten o’clock on Tuesda...

The Good, The Bad and the Evil

Yesterday night I was talking to a friend about a book everyone and their parents has been recommending to him, and which he is now, finally, reading. I asked how it was and he said “execution wise, it is quite good, and the reasons it was recommended are all true, but he feels like it’s a big, dark oil slick attaching to his mind, and he has to read it in small doses and shower afterwards.

Now, one of the things recommending this book is the story, and the outlook, as described, should mesh...

Ultra Bowl 4 – Robert A. Hoyt – A blast from another blog’s past

*Among the many crimes we committed in raising boys is that we never got them interested in WATCHING sports. I was the sport fan of the two of us, but my fandom was distinctly European. I loved soccer, handball (European model) and in a pinch basketball. BUT the caveat are I liked all these because of regional loyalties. When our boys played against their boys (village five or even two miles away) our boys should win. Of course. And I would go and cheer.
Moving here broke that habit and I’ll...