Here’s my Dragoncon schedule, for those of you who may be attending: Title: Writer’s Apocalyptic RoundtableTime: Fri 02:30 pm Location: A601 – A602 – Marriott (Length: 1)Description: Want a chance to corner your favorite apocalyptic writer and ask them a question? Here is your chance to talk to some of the best in the business!Title: […]

Jess Nevins at No Fear of the Future has produced a history of the zeppelin pulps, a subgenre I never knew actually existed. (I thought it was all a joke.) And yes, there really was a magazine called Spicy Zeppelin Stories. The article details a rather unusual collaboration between pulp editor Frank Armer and the […]

From the article by Clive Thompson (thanks to Blake Charlton).As the school year begins, be ready to hear pundits fretting once again about how kids today can’t write—and technology is to blame. Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into “bleak, bald, sad shorthand” (as […]

In response to Ron’s post on “Putting it Simply,” below, I dug up a statistics on government-run health care. Since most of you probably don’t read this blog for the comments on the comments, I thought I’d put them here.In countries with government-run health care, there isn’t a man with a gun telling you that […]