Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 35

The Great, Extraordinary Winter Fundraiser

Back when I did the normal Summer fundraiser, a curious phenomenon happened: I think I had more people donate than at any other blog fundraiser before, but the amount was lower, as everyone donated about a third what they normally would.

At the time, you guys told me I should do another fundraiser in winter to take smaller bites, as it were.

I will confess I intended to forget that, but …. what a year this has been. We’ll just say the house we bought apparently hadn’t been maintained a...

Eighties Democrats

Can we put to bed this idea that Trump is an eighties democrat? You see, I remember the eighties. I have a memory. I have writings.

I keep hearing it over and over again from our side. “Well, he’s an eighties democrat. It’s just the democrats have moved so far left that–“

I’m not going to dispute that in the eighties he was a democrat. Or that the democrats have moved further left since then. Though that later is perhaps not exactly true.

(It’s more “they were always this far left...

Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

*Trying to get a handle on winter cleaning/organizing, combined with all the extra sleep to recover from whatever the heck that was that ran me over. I will be doing a fundraiser, starting tomorrow if I get organized enough. Mostly because I said I would do another at the end of the year. I’m trying yet a new format for those. We’ll see how it goes. For now, better late than never, it’s the promo post and vignettes – SAH*

Book Promo

If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, pleas...

2025: A Moment Of Opportunity In Space by Jeff Greason

(Originally posted here: https://twitter.com/JeffGreason/status/1860439949100896479?mx=2)

2025: A Moment Of Opportunity In Space by Jeff Greason

Since 1969, a ritual of American politics is the re-examination of American space policy with each change in the presidency. A panel, commission, or task group gives recommendations. New initiatives are announced—to be mostly forgotten. The focus often shifts from the Moon to Mars or vice versa. Very little of this results in lasting change. ...

Energy Budget

So, Sarah, why don’t we have a promo post today?

I meant to do a promo post, I did. I’ve been sitting here for hours, and mostly my big battle has been “stay awake.”

So, what have I done that was so tiring? Nothing much.

But yesterday we had a Hun meetup at the Cosmosphere and dinner at the Carriage Crossing in Yoder, KS. (I don’t announce them here for a reason. It’s too open as it is too open/exposed. If you are on Facebook joining the diner will get into these, though I don’t k...

Meme All Night

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The Memes will come out tomorrow

By Holly the Assistant

As you can probably infer, there will be no meme post today: Sarah has gone with family and friends to celebrate having triumphed over her enemies (mainly pneumonia, bronchitis, high altitude, city sewer backups, and stress, but not excluding a leaking washing machine hose and an oven) for another year of life.

Wish the party well, please, and if you must food fight with cake in the comments, I expect YOU to clean it up. Especially the fan housing! And please d...

Blood And Soil

I swear on the current endless edit that if I hear one more supposedly smart, normally thinking person talk about our being a nation of “blood and soil” I’m going to go on a rampage.

Now my rampages usually involve a lot of words and explaining to people why they’re out of what passes for their minds, so it might already be too late.

I think part of the problem with this is that we have two camps that are absolutely convinced that the US is “blood and soil”: one is foreigners who have ...

Mr. Musk, Tear Down This Wall

I want to point out my title is unfair for two reasons: unlike the communists who separated East and West Germany so they wouldn’t lose their (literally) captive population to the free side, Mr. Musk didn’t put up this wall, nor is he the inheritor of those who did. Second it’s not necessarily his to tear down, but we know he has the ear of president Trump and who knows? it just might work.

We’ve been watching in horror as Britain and Germany tumble deeper and deeper into censorship and ...

Taking a Day Off

Sorry guys, still getting over whatever the thing I came down with was, and for reasons having to do with a story driving me nuts, I’ve barely been sleeping. Writing, including the blog have been difficult, and I’m in the middle of a very complex edit on the longest book I’ve ever written that is an actual book. (We won’t talk about the doorstop I wrote in 1993.)

Anyway, I simply don’t feel able to actually write a post.

So…. I’m going to give you a lot of very strange pictures, and I’ll b...