Pick A Side, Any Side Dept.

Not much time to blog lately — impending family stuff, work, re-jiggering some project priorities, etc. The one big thing I keep meaning to bring up is the debacle of the Hugos, but Tim Hall has beaten me to it and done a far better job of running down just what has been so repulsive about this whole mess.What bugs me most about all this is how the hijackers (on both sides, mind you) can claim victory of a kind no matter what happens.

I hate quietism as a political stance, but I know full wel...