Like every other midlist writer on the planet, I’m striving to get my out-of-print books and stories online so that (a) you can enjoy them, and (b) I can make a few bucks. To this end, I embarked upon a Cunning Plan.  I discovered that my work had been pirated, and was available for free […]

Ah, to be in England now that Adam Curtis has a new documentary series . . . All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace will premiere in a couple weeks on the BBC, and by all accounts is a sort of meta-critique of digital society and its proponents and heroes.  (About time, too.) The […]

I was sorta hoping that the death of Osama bin Laden might nudge a few people back to sanity, but it isn’t happening. I mean, I expected the 9/11 Truthers to claim that Osama didn’t do it and isn’t really dead, because they’ve been on the Crazy Train for some time.   But even the usual […]

If you’ve ever wondered why Iranian politics are so strange, perhaps the answer is now at hand.  It seems that the president’s inner circle has been relying for advice on “djinn, fairies, and demons.” We have this on no less an authority that Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, whose spat with President Ahmadinejad’s court has […]