I’m going to step back and let Alma Alexander tell you about her current – and very relevant – project, Children of a Different Sky currently raising funds […]
Does Your Group or Party Have Socialist In Its Name? Maybe You Should Read This And Think Real Hard.
TL;DR: I’ve had personal experience with Socialist parties co-opting protests and rallies for their own gain for over a quarter century. If you’re going to organize a rally, […]
Choose: Four thousand full-time workers, a $1/hr raise for 56K workers, or golfing trips for someone else’s family?
I was really angered by this thing written by a paramedic about fast food workers making as much as they do. Not because of what they wrote. Because […]
Addressing A Percieved Double Standard In Speculative Fiction Publishing
There’s some musings (most recently by Lela Buis here and here) comparing the treatment of Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Sunil Patel, and Greg Andree after their bad behavior in the […]
I’m sick and so might be the person on the other side of the screen
I am sick. Having a fever, runny nose, coughing, getting nosebleeds every time I sneeze sick. I mention this as a reminder that what you see of someone […]
The Writing’s On the Wall: How the *IDEA* of Fake News can hurt democracy
In our rush to decry the problems with “fake news” (and there are many problems with it), we solved one problem… but created another. And in his fumbling […]