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The appeal to worse problems fallacy, and other unhelpful responses to domestic terrorism
Another week another mass shooting, or wait, no at least two more mass shootings. And oh, all the usual nonsense from people who are deeply invested in making sure we don’t do anything to cut down on the number of preventable deaths. I’ve written about this too many times already...
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Weekend Update 8/3/2019: damn lies, stupid lies, shocked deniers, and the end of a campaign
Time for another post about news that broke after I posted this week’s Friday Five, or didn’t come to my attention until afterward, or about a previously linked story which has new developments. And as usual I have some opinions that I wish to expound upon...
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Friday Five (courting foreign interference edition)
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He has no sock(puppet)s, and he must cry wolf*-bullied bullies are everywhere
I started to assemble this post about an aggrieved conservative sci-fi writer last week, but other things kept coming up, and since the kerfuffle seems to have blown over, I wasn’t sure there was much value in throwing in my two cents. But then a couple of the most recent developments in some national news stories made certain similarities between ( Read more... ) -
Chock-full of meaning, or more adventures in dictionaries
A discussion about writing advice crossed my social media stream this week. One topic was archaic similes that literate people know the meaning of, but because they refer to practices or objects that are no longer part of daily life, no longer conjure a vivid picture in the mind of the reader ( Read more... ) -
Weekend Update 7/20/2019: Crystal cathedrals, golden parachutes, and racist racisms
Speaking of things that turn one's stomach...
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Friday Five (riling the base edition)
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Divine prophecies and muscular men in very short skirts, or more of why I love sf/f
I’m not sure how old I was the first time I saw Columbia Pictures’ Jason and the Argonauts. I used to believe that I saw it in a movie theatre on the big screen for the first time as part of one of the series of kid-friendly matinees that I got to attend from the age of about 6 through 10… but after doing some research I discovered that the film ( Read more... ) -
Stop claiming that being called a bigot is worse than the actual bigotry
f you are somehow unaware of the racist thing Trump tweeted this last weekend, and the doulbing-down and defending of the words that has happened, I’m not going to sum them up. The salient facts are here ( Read more... ) -
Why I hate hay fever reason #6508
...For a couple weeks the pollen count has been high or very high, so my hay fever has been pretty bad all of that time. By the middle of last week, in addition to the usual hay fever symptoms, I got two new ones the usually indicate more than just allergies are wrong...
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