Will Shetterly's Blog, page 92
November 20, 2015
Superboy says, "Know Your Country!"—explaining multiculturalism in 1951*
* It appears this first appeared in 1951 and was reprinted in 1954.
November 16, 2015
Explaining free speech to XKCD, a cartoon
Yes, this is the short version with pictures ofXKCD doesn't understand free speech—or the difference between legal and moral rights.
November 12, 2015
Beulah McFee 1.21
Next installment: Monday, if the creek don't rise.
November 11, 2015
An update on standing desks and ergonomics for writers
One of my popular posts continues to bemy standing desk. For the last couple of years, I've been using a different reconfigured Ikea desk that's been discontinued, but now my work needs have changed, so I'm looking at new options. Also, a friend mentioned that her boyfriend has been getting a lot of tensionin his back while he works. The first thing I told her was that ergonomicsmatter. Many
November 10, 2015
Beulah resumes on Friday with a new schedule
I would love to produce daily installments, but life is too lifeyto allow that now. (Not in bad ways. Just that I've got half of the cats in the herd at the moment, so I need to leave them and round up the other half.) The next installment should be on Friday. I suspect I'll go to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule after that, but I'm not committing to anything yet.
November 8, 2015
Beulah McFee 1.19 and 1.20
To read from the beginning on a single web page:The Ballad of Beulah McFee #1: "Me and Robert and the Devil"
November 7, 2015
No Beulah today, two Beulahs tomorrow, and a bit about Insensitive Highly Sensitive People (IHSPs)
Since I haven't decided what "one Beulah" is, I'm not sure that you'll be able to tell that you're getting two installments tomorrow, but you are. A friend sharedHighly sensitive people: a condition rarely understood. It looks like HSPs are a thing now, at least on the internet. My feelings, as usual, are mixed. At the friend's page, I said, I'm wondering if HSPs are more or less likely to be
November 6, 2015
Machiavelli on the danger of believing exiles
ViaIn Defense of the Late Ahmad Chalabi: chapter 31 of Niccolò Machiavelli’s book Discourses on Livy,“How Dangerous It Is to Believe Exiles”: "How dangerous a thing it is to believe those who have been driven out of their country. … Such is the extreme desire in them to return home, that they naturally believe many things that are false and add many others by art, so that between those they
