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The Good, The Bad and the Eternal a blast from the past from 4/20/2018

The Good, The Bad and the Eternal a blast from the past from 4/20/2018

So recently some twitter twit, of whom I’ve never heard in the whole course of my days took it upon herself to put down both John Ringo’s work and mine (I’m still not sure at all why I was pulled into this, except that I gall them by existing and not falling in line.)

Those of you who have read both of us might go “What do these two things have in common?”  I don’t know, but since this was was on a twitter thread wh...

Those Who Fear

At times we’re all afraid of the future. Sometimes this is actually rational.

For instance, it’s 2024, and an election year. And we know what the fun, zany “experts” who have infested every institution and bureaucracy cooked up in 2020. The near future looks clown world, with a high possibility of crazy cakes, and the possibility of a squall of kinectic passing through where any of us lives, at any time.

If you’re not scared, you’re not paying attention. Or you’re lulled to a false sen...

I Sing The Body Meme-etic

What comes After Fear

This is a very bad time for a lot of people. In fact, perhaps it’s a bad time for everyone. We’ve been kicked around so stupidly by people who were supposed to be acting in our best interests that even those like me who never really trusted experts feel betrayed.

The nature of the betrayal, too, means that lives were ruined, young people were destroyed, education and job prospects blighted. All of us — I think every last one of us — lost friends or relatives, because things like cancer ch...

Let My People Speak

Of all the idiocy going around in the seats of power these days, few things get me more… linguistically creative than The WEF Darvoisie wanting to curb “Misinformation” and “Disinformation” and Sally Karen Suburban in the US joining in because all those people are saying bad think out loud and aren’t even ashamed, and shouldn’t we stop them.

Both “Misinformation” and “Disinformation” as things that should be curbed by institutions and governments are ideas of the ditactorships of the twen...

Two announcements

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Galactic Enquirer submission call!

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Sarah Hoyt’s Inkstain Press is soliciting submissions for our Galactic Enquirer Anthology.  Please submit your humorous science fiction story of 6k-10k words to hollyfrost.inkstainpress@gmail.com by March 1, 2024 (note new date if...

Obstinate Ignorance by David Bock

Obstinate Ignorance by David Bock

This is a characteristic we see all too often where someone refuses, in the face of documented and confirmed facts, to allow themselves to be reasoned out of a position they weren’t reasoned into in the first place.

I’m sure all our readers are aware of the recent attack in southern Israel and the atrocities committed there. Many are also likely aware of the call for a worldwide day of violence on Friday, October 13th by leaders of that horror. Thankfu...

Violence Inherent In the System

As some of you — all of you? know — we’ve recently acquired two female kittens — now four months old — which means we get to see young mammals up close and personal.

Okay, forget seeing — that would be easy — what we actually get to do is experience young mammals up close and personal at around six to seven am. You see, for reasons known only to the psychiatrist that kittens can’t have, as soon as there’s the slightest hint of light out, the two girls decide it’s time to have a series of ...

The Clothes Don’t Make The Meme

That’s Not How Any of That Works

Part of the problem we have with the left’s fantasies is that they are very bad at world building.

I mean, you can see that in their movies and books. The number of books I’ve thrown against the wall because “this is not how any of this works” including the book where “because of global warming” Kansas was underwater but London wasn’t. Or the one where Space colonies were great because it was incredibly communist but Earth was in deep trouble because of being free trade. Or the one where–...