Category: Human Wave
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Mutual Aid and Comfort
There have been a few times I’ve posted here in support of friends who needed help, and today is partly about that. Jenn Hast, who is an artist, photographer, and will soon be an accountant (why yes, she is a polymath and Renaissance woman!) is dealing with cancer. The outlook is good, if the short-term…
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Big Damn Heroes
I’ve been lucky enough in my life to have met some men and women I’d call heroes. All of them, to a soul, would reject that appellation. That’s part of the charm, to be honest. Self-aware heroics… aren’t. They were, they will tell you if they are willing to talk about it at all, just…
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Past Reflects Future
I always feel a little hesitant to offer any analysis of current events. For one thing, it seems that these days, everything is political, will I, nil I. For another, it’s outside my realm. I am not that erudite and intellectual as to think that my observations are weighty and worthy of proclaiming. Besides which,…
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Planning Ahead
I have to admit, a friend’s comment elsewhere caught my attention and kind of sums up how I feel right now. Like there are storm clouds looming on the horizon, and I’m bracing for the gust front to swirl through the yard, tossing leaves high into the air… Doom is falling. It just hasn’t landed…
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The Lone Man
I’d been reading John Locke, as I revisit the origins of my beloved country and remind myself where the freedoms I currently enjoy stem from. It’s a good thing to do periodically, as time erodes with it’s passage much that we took for granted. Locke, at length, proposes to trace the origination of the…
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Humans, Heck Yeah!
Freefall gets it. Humans are resilient. We will get through this. We’ve gotten through worse.
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Review: Captain Marvel
I took the kids to see a movie last night. Normally I take them, drop them off, and come back later to get them. But this time they really wanted me to go, too. It’s a Marvel movie, which they know I appreciate, and as I told the Junior Mad Scientist later, the time approaches…
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Writing Human Wave
It’s been a while since this came up, and someone asked ‘what is Human Wave, anyway?” in a group I belong to. There is more at the original Sarah Hoyt post, but this is, in a nutshell, how to write a human wave story. I’ve gone through and added emphasis to draw the eye to…
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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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Anti-Human
As a companion to the piece I wrote for Mad Genius Club today, the Luddites are Winning, I ran across this article today, about a champion of golden rice, and a former Greenpeace member. Patrick Moore, in an interview for Savvy Street: The leaders of the Greens are extreme leftists, profoundly anti-human, anti-science, and anti-civilization.…