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 Read more…
The interview I mentioned earlier is now up on the blog Grinding to Valhalla. Relevant quote: Would you have any words of advice for the would-be-writers out there? Two things. First, only pursue this if what you love, and what Read more…
Anyone remember that show J. J. Abrams did before Lost? Where we had Jennifer Gardner as an uber-cool kick-butt and take names secret agent embedded in a world where conspiracies nested like Russian dolls and at least every major character Read more…
I’ve just completed a blog interview (which I’ll link to when it goes live) that brought up a thought that hadn’t occurred to me before. In my youth I was heavily into role-playing games, I even was a game master, Read more…
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 Read more…
But I’m going to post videos of large vehicles crashing into things instead:
Prepare yourself for the great Libertarian/Transhumanist cage match. And here you can read about the resulting internet kerfuffle. Sort of the philosophical equivalent of a flame-war between furries and trekkies.
And these came in today: Yeah, it’s a reprint, but it still makes me happy.
So the AP still doesn’t “get” fair use. Or they don’t want to get it. According to Tom Curley, AP’s chief executive: The company’s position was that even minimal use of a news article online required a licensing agreement with Read more…