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Category: Ethics and Morals
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Win a signed book!
Win a copy of Dragon Noir! You can play along in the comments here, or on facebook where I kicked the thing off yesterday. Comment for an entry, and I will draw a name at random on Sunday, July 19 and announce the winner. Then I will do it a second time and give away…
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Rounding Up
It’s a Monday Morning Round Up! As usual, my interests are varied, YMMV, and feel free to let me know in comments what you’re reading today! Book o’the morning: Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham. Art o’the Day: Wickiups (wordpress isn’t letting me upload images, so you’ll have to click, sorry) Reviews Papa Pat writes…
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Guest Post: Physics as it relates to human issues, or Potential energy vs work.
Written by William Lehman HI folks, pardon me while I break out my soap box. let’s talk about the world as it exists. Society is basically a game, and a physics problem. More on both of those later. This particular rant has been generated by reading some things posted by friends of mine, and their…
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The Rational, Thinking Woman
Guest post written by Lissa Hailey. Cedar: Lissa posted this on her facebook timeline and tagged me in it, then graciously allowed me to put it up here on my blog. I think it’s an excellent essay on the personal impact of feminism. As most of my readers know, I wasn’t raised in mainstream American…
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Letter-Writing Campaign
I had an interesting interaction with one of my vendors last week. Or rather, a lack of interaction. I had ordered promotional materials to have at the upcoming convention, and I had done this about two weeks ago to be sure they would arrive on time. Friday, they showed up on my doorstep. While I…
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Tor Clarification
Tom Doherty has issued a statement from Tor regarding the subject I have discussed here over the last couple of days, namely, the unprofessional behaviour of one of their employees. Tor employees, including Ms. Gallo, have been reminded that they are required to clarify when they are speaking for Tor and when they are speaking…
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Fear and Loathing at TOR
Almost since the advent of the internet, there have been warnings about what to say – or not – on it. The internet is a vast and mostly public arena. Imagine, if you can, standing in Grand Central Station and screaming slurs at the top of your lungs, while the sane people standing near you…
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What or Why?
Written by Sanford Begley What or Why for a title, is it confusing? Well the subject may be. The question is rooted in life, fiction, and maybe metaphysics. Gordon Dickson postulated in one of his Childe cycle books that the intent behind an action was more important than the actual action. That why you did…
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Gold-Plated Misogynist
That’s what she said. It was in a comment thread online, after a friend of mine had shared a Robert A Heinlein quote. I looked at it, shook my head, and wondered when the man who was accused of being too pro-women in the era he wrote in, had become a woman-hater. It’s not true…
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Memorial Day in Photos
The First Reader and I went to a local cemetery (Middletown, Ohio) yesterday and took pictures. They may be gone, but as you will see, never forgotten. It was a peaceful, contemplative time to walk among the fallen lying under the green grass and bright flags. Some were taken too soon, fallen in battles that…
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Blast from the Past: Parenting and Books
I will return to live-blogging tomorrow, but this essay finishes the mini series that began three days ago. Definitions Perversion: the alteration of something from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended. Morals: 1. a lesson, esp. one concerning what is right or prudent, that…
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Blast from the Past: Rage Against the Darkness
This is an essay related to yesterday’s post, and I will finish up with the theme tomorrow. As a girl, I was kicked in the chest by a horse. He wasn’t very big, but neither was I, and the next thing I remember is looking up at the blue sky wondering how the world had…