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Dogs and Cats Living Together

Mass Hysteria! Here’s a perfect (and perfectly awful) example of what I was talking about yesterday: Antifa stabs man for his “Neo-Nazi” haircut. Because his hipster ‘do looked Alt-Reich. A handy rule of thumb: if you’re randomly assaulting people for suspected Fascism, surprise! You’re the Fascist! I’m convinced that we’ve become so hopelessly polarized that …

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Decline and Fall: Threats Unmasked

So I take a few months off from the blog to finish Frozen Orbit, and you guys just up and trash the place. Seriously, is everybody a Nazi now? Apparently so, if by “Nazi” you mean “anyone who disagrees with the received leftist wisdom.” This is something we’ve always suspected, of course, but now one … Continue reading Decline and Fall: Threats Unmasked

Decline and Fall of America: The Prologue

While I finish collecting my thoughts on the latest craze (“Everyone I Hate’s a Nazi!”), here’s one that’s almost as sickening: Funeral Selfies. For realz. Allow me to suggest that these narcissistic clowns pose a greater threat to civil society than the basement-dwelling morons of the “Alt-Reich.” Because these people are probably considered “normal” in … Continue reading Decline and Fall of America: The Prologue

Yeah, I’ve Been Away Awhile…

Did I miss anything?  

Life Imitating Art

In which NASA unwittingly threatens a big-budget production of the opening chapter of Perigee. There’s a lot to unpack here. First, The Verge on the the buzz it has created inside the agency (and the inherent challenges): NASA is mulling over the idea of putting astronauts on the first flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) — the … Continue reading Life Imitating Art

Here Comes the Boom

Good interview with Boom Aerospace CEO Blake Scholl at RealClearFuture: Ultimately, we would like the ability to go anywhere in the world in five hours for a hundred bucks. Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt. But then I read this: That’s the long-term mission. That’s our equivalent of going to Mars. Okay then. … Continue reading Here Comes the Boom

The Curse Of The Second Novel

Originally posted on madgeniusclub:
I bring you bad news.  There is a curse on a second novel.  To be exact, there is a curse on a second PUBLISHED novel, no matter how many novels you’ve published before. I’m not sure if this applies to indie novels, I confess, but I think it might, if you…

SpaceXpensive

Being a privately-held company, SpaceX’s finances have been notoriously opaque. No doubt Elon Musk prefers it that way, because he can’t be too pleased with last month’s Wall Street Journal “expose” of their account books.  The story is still behind the WSJ paywall so we’ll have to take The Motley Fool‘s word for it: In an … Continue reading SpaceXpensive

Guitar Heaven

Between writing and the day job, music is an avocation which I never seem to have enough time for. I play with a group of guys who are just in the “having fun” stage for now, but occasionally we turn out something that actually sounds really good. Here’s my modest guitar collection, mostly acquired with … Continue reading Guitar Heaven

Wounded Animals, etc.

Just because the Leftists are out of power doesn’t make them any less dangerous: While most of our operatives started and stayed with one specific group, I was unable to initially penetrate the group I was responsible for infiltrating. I had to work my way up the ladder, moving from one group to another in order … Continue reading Wounded Animals, etc.