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Why So Slow?

Where are the arrests? Where are the arrests? Where are the arrests?

Weirdly — ah! — the same accounts pushing that are also the ones who want us to “shoot back” or of course like the charmer yesterday to just go ahead and shoot all elected representatives. (Yeah, because they and not the bureaucracy are the “real” problem. Seriously? Also way to attract good people to government. what the heck is wrong with people’s minds, actually?)

Look, I know we saw the frauding of 2020 in person,...

The Face Of War

Hold to the 48 hour rule, on the events this weekend. We don’t know precisely why there were two very strange shootings, both by US Marines. And of course, times we live in, I’m suspicious. You’re suspicious.

Ladies and gentlemen, when Powerline blog, one of the most milksop blogs on the right sounds like wild eyed conspiracy theorists, everyone is suspicious.

Mostly, though, the shootings were weird. As in, it would be hard to divine why those victims were picked, and what in heaven’...

Everything The Sun Touches Is Memed

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Oh, Lordy, the Writer Ran Away With Clankers Again

Look, sad I was, unable to word I was. So I tortured the clankers for a traditional Ellyan Ballad “A swearing before battle.”

For those of you who HAVE read the book, the two mugs above (and in the interlude in the video) are the Lords of the Land of Karrash (the little one who frankly depending on what he as wearing could look like a woman if an unusually flat one) and the Lord of Erradi, who is tall and rough hewn anyway.

I’d apologize for stealing their likenesses, since they had a ...

It’s All In The Movies

The problem with humans…. No wait, if I start like that, it’s like answering “what do you know” by starting with “in the beginning there was chaos” Ala Mycroft in The Moon is a Hard Mistress.

One of the problems with humans is that we are part clankers.

No, hear me out. It’s like this: we have our basic hardware but we learn. We learn constantly, and we learn from the things we’re fed.

This has been our greatest strength and what has made us masters of the planet. Even more so when ...

I’m sorry. I’m utterly and completely brainless today

Has anyone seen my brain.

The neighbors thought that 6:30 am was the time to start demolition work this morning. I’d gone to bed at one. If my kid reads this, yes, I’m aware I’m supposed to be in bed by ten, but a chapter hit. Mistakes were made.

The result is that I’m walking into walls, bumping into cats, and Dan had to explain to me the very simple remote for my treadmill, because I was in tears, insisting it was broken. (Oh, yeah, bought a tiny treadmill that fits under the desk.)

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The Good New Days

I’m so tired of people writing things about the current, not very good, pretty bad, etc. state in the country, and diagnosing the problem pretty well in saying we have an educational establishment indoctrinating people to hate America; and information/entertainment educational complex that lies about the past on the regular and stirs up idiot group grievances with neo-Marxian fervor; corrupt politicians; power concentrated in the hands of a well connected elite.

And I’m following along, n...

So, That Happened To the Day!

We had a routine medical appointment and Dan swears I’m misremembering this, but I SWEAR the receptionist was the sloth from the DMV in Zootopia… We were supposed to be out by eleven, noon at most. We didn’t even get in till three.

I’m so sorry.

Anyway, so here’s what happened today. First the good news: Volume 2 of book 1 is out. And if you’re very good sometime very soon I’ll give you the second chapter of book 2. (Because the first chapter gives way too much away for those who di...

Remember, it’s NOT MIL SF

Why am I doing this? Because I made a pretty and I want to share. I’m SORRY. (Also, because, to be bluntly honest, my brain is still not up to working)

I couldn’t get it to do bagpipes. Or rather, I could, but the clanker thinks “bagpipes” means “jaunty, happy tune.” SIGH.

Anyway, look, it’s my world, and I love showing it off. And aren’t the tools AMAZING?

THIS is the relevant part of the first chapter:

When I woke two weeks later, they told me that Father was dead, but I ...

Hate

The left keeps throwing around the word “Hate” and defining ITSELF as being against haters.

As in so many things, from outside it looks like they’re projecting like an IMAX.

To make it clear: I’ve been accused at various times of hating this or that group. This is actually and for real insane. “Hate” has a precise definition of wishing the worst on others, wishing to harm, kill them, obliterate their existence. I’m saved from it, even when really angry, by the fact I’m extremely lazy. ...