Chad Eagleton's Blog, page 19
October 27, 2016
October 26, 2016
October 24, 2016
Politics: How Write-In Voting Works
Still seeing a lot of people talking about writing in Bernie as their choice for president. That's not how write-in candidates work. 34 states require the candidate to be registered as a write-in, 9 do not allow write in candidates at all, and the remaining 7 states (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Oregon) count the votes of anyone you write in.However, Bernie is not a registered candidate in any of those 34 states. And even if he, by some miracle, ma...
October 21, 2016
How Bruce Lee Spent An Average Day
I think I might need to rethink how I spend my time:
October 20, 2016
It's Not Too Late
It's not too late! GoFundMe coming soon!
October 19, 2016
Politics: Throwing Your Vote Away
Personally, I tend to follow Eugene Debs' logic, "I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it, than vote for something I don't want and get it." But seriously, the thing that absolutely drives me crazy about all the people who are just so rabid about lesser of evils voting or a vote for anyone other than Hillary is a vote for Trump or a third party vote is just throwing your vote away apparently don't understand how our election process actually functions or the importance of where th...
October 18, 2016
Politics: How Did We Get Rid of Kings...?
The mental hoops I see people jump through to defend Sanders new job as Democratic lapdog are absolutely mind blowing. It's one step away from, "He has to work for the corporate-run establishment and the warhawk candidate that stole the election. He's been infected with a time release poison and the DNC won't give him the antidote until after the election."
It's really helped hammer home one of things that I've noticed this election: people on all sides really just want "heroes" who will save...
October 17, 2016
Your Special Advocate
The Miskatonic Dreams anthology is currently available from Alban Lake in both print and digital. I hope you’ll check it out, either now or when it becomes available through Amazon in about a week. "Your Special Advocate" introduces Ezra Gaskell who chairs the Dunwich Committee on Student Safety. There are a couple of things I tried to do with this story. Other writers portray the weirdness of Miskatonic University as either overt or covert. I prefer covert and so tried to filter that t...
October 15, 2016
Saturday Update
Details soon on the anthology appearance of my horror story called "Your Special Advocate." In the meantime, I'm working on some more Cyberpunk stories...
