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politics

Can you say Sudetenland?

I am not a liberal, and I don’t subscribe to the idea that George W. is a secular antichrist, my qualms about the (Iraq) war have always been of ones of tactics (i.e. letz fite stoopid) and strategy (this served Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
Apotheosis Trilogy

Writerly type stuff

Side-stepping the world of politics for a moment, I wanted to mention that I’m finally back to writing new material, after doing rewrites of three novels in a row.  You’ll notice the counters slowly starting to move again as I Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
asshat

Update: Islamic Students reasonable. Islamic Scholar, not so much.

According to Gallycat, the students riled up by the threat of Random House’s publication of the Jewel of Medina were planning little more than a publicity campaign to e-mail the publisher and news outlets and so on. Perfectly innocuous stuff Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
asshat

Islamic Overreaction freaks out Random House

From the “this surprises you why?” department: Random House was going to publish a book titled The Jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones, a historical novel that features one of Mohammad’s wives, and has decided “oops, bad idea.” Quoth Random Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
video

Mad Cow

No strange videos recently, so here’s one from the Weird Universe Weblog. (The URL onscreen is NSFW)

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
internet

Orson Scott Card is scared of gay marriage

UPDATE: Post is locked due to nasty flame war (hidden for your protection) His rant is here, and somewhat predictably there are responses in the blogosphere ranging from laconic bemusement by Scalzi to rhetorical dismemberment on the Feminist SF Blog. Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
asshat

Empire State Asshatery

Politicians love child porn. It is the ultimate grandstanding issue. It is an issue with effectively no opposing side, after all, if you come out “against” child porn you’ve implicitly cast any opposition into the role of pedophiles and child Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
rants

A plea to parents. . .

Your kids are grown, you own your own house, and you have at least some desire not to inflict upon your children the kind of hell me, my wife, and my in-laws have been going through. I offer 10 tips Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
appearances

Places I will be at

Quick list of my upcoming convention going. July 25-27 (this weekend) I will be attending Confluence in Pittsburgh, PA. August 15-17 I will be at Armadillocon in Austin, Texas. (Thanks to my fellow ex-Hamster and ex-Clevelander Maureen for suggesting I Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago
Apotheosis Trilogy

Good News and Bad News

The good news is that I got Valentine’s Night polished up, printed out, and sent off to Eleanor today. This is the second spec manuscript I’ve written in as many years, in addition to finishing off Prophets for DAW. Here’s Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, 18 years ago

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