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Excluded by intersectionality

Over at my other blog, I've been doing a series of short posts recording cases that were overlooked by most identitarians because they involved white men, the people who are excluded by the bourgeois theory of intersectionality:Social Justice Warriors: Do Not Engage: excluded by intersectionality. Maybe they'll become an article someday; maybe they'll be useful for someone else.

And if there's

a simple rice cooker meal: polenta and black beans

For one:

Put 1/4 cup polenta and 3/4 cup water in rice cooker. Drain a can of black beans. When the polenta is done, add half the beans to the cooker, put the other half in the fridge for something else, like making this again in a day or two 'cause it's simple and delicious. Leave the beans and polenta on the warm setting for a couple of minutes while you get something to drink. (I had white

Perhaps this will become my annual post about awards

History tells us there's no connection between what wins and what's remembered. Well, except for the winners that make people say, "What drugs were popular that year?" For example, generally considered the worst book to win the Hugo:They'd Rather Be Right, remembered only for a distinction few writers desire.

It is a greater honor to be nominated than to win. Only the pettiest people will

A 1968 statement by economists on income guarantees and supplements

ETA: Guaranteed Income's Moment in the Sun.

Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

I was reminded of this by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar inThe Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race.

Race, class, and people killed by cops

I just came acrossLocal police involved in 400 killings per year:

Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI. On average, there were 96 such incidents among at least 400 police killings each year that were reported to the

The Tangled Lands—now available as an ebook!

I've lightly revised this. I confess, I have mixed feelings about the book. Like The Gospel of the Knife, it's not entirely to my satisfaction, and yet, there are bits I'm proud of, and it has its fans, which pleases me enormously. At Goodreads, a reviewer said it's "tightly written" and a few people gave it five stars. It's a very odd prequel to Cats Have No Lord. Someday I may write a sequel

How to write characters of a different gender than yours

AtStar Trek Writer's Defense of Diversity in Sci-Fi Is Damn Near Perfect,PV said,

I don't think I could ever write a convincing same-sex relationship. I'm just not wired that way. But I totally support and encourage those who do - even if that kind of relationship doesn't interest me personally. The reason is simple, if we want a better world for ourselves, we have to have a better world for

What's missed by people who only see race: the growing household wealth gap

FromThe Typical Household, Now Worth a Third Less - NYTimes.com: "The inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical household was $87,992 in 2003. Ten years later, it was only $56,335, or a 36 percent decline, according to a study financed by the Russell Sage Foundation. Those are the figures for a household at the median point in the wealth distribution — the level at which there are an equal

A surprising number of writers fail to see that Amazon's Readers United used an Orwell quote correctly, or More evidence irony is dead

I got the infamous Amazon/Kindle Direct Publishing/Readers United letter, read it, and shrugged. My position hasn't changed since I wrote that the butcher and the meat market are fighting, and they both say they're doing it for the cows.

But an astonishing number of people are claiming Amazon misquoted Orwell. (I noticed this at io9'sA New Chapter In The Amazon/Hachette Battle, then saw many