thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | January 22, 2010
There is a certain class of people who combine stupidity, deep-seated insecurity with a pathological need to control. The worst place to put these people is in a position where they are charged with keeping people safe.
Case in point: We have a report (found here) of an unnamed vice principal at Millennial Tech Magnet Middle [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 21, 2009
More inappropriate author behavior from Candice Sams from the ever-growing comment thread on Amazon. Here an enterprising commenter found an interesting plea on her Facebook page. (And here’s an LJ post with the full text in case Amazon deep-sixes the original comment.) So here we have someone pulling a reverse Deborah MacGillivray, piling [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 18, 2009
I’m late to this party, but when I found it via Making Light I couldn’t resist blogging about it:
Candace Sams, author of Electra Galaxy’s Mr. Interstellar Feller (mass-market paperback, Dorchester/Love Spell), has exploded all over a comment thread on Amazon. She’s posting as Niteflyr One, but the comment thread has her ID’d as the author [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 11, 2009
Internet trolls are fascinating creatures. They live in the nooks and crannies of the internet, eager to pounce on any unwary passer-by. I find the psychology fascinating, as trolls almost always advocate a political point of view, and do it exceedingly badly. So badly that one is often left wondering if they [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 4, 2009
Michael Wolf decided to make a complete asshat of himself.
I’ll let you ponder the following thesis:
HarperCollins does not really believe Sarah Palin has written a valuable book—or even that it is really a book, not in the way that HarperCollins has historically understood books, or in the way that people have counted on HarperCollins to [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 1, 2009
Celebrities belong to a different class of people, they are not subject to normal petty laws short of perhaps murder. Even then, you often see the accused, and the fans of the accused, twist facts to the breaking point to portray any prosecution as persecution.
Even when the bastard pleads guilty.
In the case of Roman [...]
S Andrew Swann | September 14, 2009
UPDATE: Turns out the “official” 60K-70K figure wasn’t so official. In fact it was some guy talking out his ass. (Still working on fixing this blog, sheesh.)
UPDATE: Some less questionable figures here. Don’t you wish the MSM could do basic math?
We had somewhere between seventy thousand and two million people march into Washington in what [...]
S Andrew Swann | September 7, 2009
Van Jones has quit the Obama administration, so apparently I can’t use him to point out to people that, no, actually this really is a radical left administration. It’s a shame, because it was really interesting to hear the rationalizations when someone says that “no this really is a center left administration,” and you bring [...]
S Andrew Swann | August 17, 2009
Nancy Pelosi faces a horrifying disruption at a town hall meeting (here via here):
By the way, speaking of Democrats revising their publicly declared policy positions:
We all know that all this “Death Panel” stuff is crazy talk, hell Obama himself has called such arguments “dishonest,” problem is, he’s also said this about his grandmother:
THE PRESIDENT: [...]
S Andrew Swann | August 11, 2009
Strangely enough, I try not to demonize and/or ridicule people for their political beliefs. When I hand out asshats, I’m doing so for statements and actions that define a universal Platonic ideal of stupidity. So Pelosi is here not because of her political views, which I find the philosophical equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard, [...]
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