Just off their strategy meeting before the 2014 mid-term elections, and one year after publishing a post-mortem of their SECOND embarrassing defeat at the hands of the mean Mr. Obama, the RNC is not...
British writer and philosopher Colin Wilson and one of my favorite authors in my, umm, formative years, passed over the weekend. Back in those days, I was much given to exploring physic phenomena, mysticism and...
Fiendish Schemes, J.W. Jeter Wonderful and delightfully well-written steam punk novel, which envisions an alternative past of steam power instead of internal combustion. Steam robots abound, fiendish schemes, sentient oceans which move where they...
Economic Recovery? Don’t believe a word of it. Here is what is really going on: From Michael Snyder: In America today, only 47% of adults have a full-time job. According to one recent...
He set up his empty bowl and an exceptionally large soup spoon – so large that most European cultures would identify it as a serving spoon and most Asian one as a horticultural implement....
Refurbished my $10 fleamarket Underwood typewriter and I’m ready to write the great Canadian Novel. What an amazing machine – pulleys, gears and connecting rods – all kinds of complicated machinery. All kinds of...
The name of the blog comes from a spacecraft found in the Culture novels and short stories by Iain M. Banks. The Culture is a hybrid society featured in many of these novels. In...