Who knew that the book was a warning against rampant capitalism?
Someone needs to tell George Orwell.
I’d like to say it merely helps to be insane to work at MSNBC, but I’m starting to think it really is a job requirement.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Skeptics
Why you should be one.
Women’s Makeup
Yes, ladies, we really do think that some of you wear too much.
I’ve always assumed that women are really dressing and making up for other women, not men. But it doesn’t help that the fashion industry is so dominated by men who are attracted to men (or boys), not women.
City On The Airstrip One Of Forever
Some thoughts on the Left’s cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.
The New Benghazi Emails
Obama won’t be impeached and removed (at least not before the election), for the reasons Glenn writes. But in a sane world, he would be. Of course, in a sane world, he’d have never been president.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s the story. That’s being ignored because of an octogenarian racist team owner in the NBA.
“Get A Trampoline”
Rogozin is threatening to cut off US access to the ISS, on the same day that the House space subcommittee marks up a bill declaring that “safety is the highest priority.”
Idiots.
The War On Men
The White House joins it.
I wouldn’t send my son to public schools, and I’d think twice about paying for a college education, at this point.
[Update a couple minutes later]
And then there’s all the politically correct absurdity.
Congratulations To Michael Totten
His new zombie novel has already been optioned.
The SF “Community”
…has apparently become community organized:
I’ve said for a long time that the awards are biased against authors because of their personal beliefs. Authors can either cheer lead for left wing causes, or they can keep their mouth shut. Open disagreement is not tolerated and will result in being sabotaged and slandered. Message or identity politics has become far more important than entertainment or quality. I was attacked for saying this. I knew that when an admitted right winger got in they would be maligned and politicked against, not for the quality of their art but rather for their unacceptable beliefs.
This is one of (though not the only one) reasons that I don’t read as much SF as I did when I was younger. The best way to fight this nonsense, of course, is to buy Larry’s books
[Monday-morning update]
The mission of SFWA was to act as a professional organization, to enhance the prestige of writers in our genre, to deter fraud, and to give mutual aid and support to our professional dreams.
It was out of loyalty to this mission that I so eagerly joined SFWA immediately upon my first professional sales, and the reason why I was so proud to associate with the luminaries and bold trailblazers in a genre I thought we all loved.
When SFWA first departed from that mission, I continued for a time to hope the change was not permanent. Recent events have made it clear that there is not reasonable basis for that hope.
Instead of enhancing the prestige of the genre, the leadership seems bent on holding us up to the jeers of all fair-minded men by behaving as gossips, whiners, and petty totalitarians, and by supporting a political agenda irrelevant to science fiction.
Instead of men who treat each other with professionalism and respect, I find a mob of perpetually outraged gray-haired juveniles.
Instead of receiving aid to my writing career, I find organized attempts to harass my readers and hurt my sales figures.
Instead of finding an organization for the mutual support of Science Fiction writers, I find an organization for the support of Political Correctness.
Instead of friends, I find ideologues bent on jihad against all who do not meekly conform to their Orwellian and hellish philosophy.
Politics trumps Science Fiction in the modern SFWA.
Sounds like it’s time for an alternate organization.
[Update a while later]
[Bumped]
More thoughts from Glenn Reynolds, over at USA Today.
Oligarchy In The 21st Century
Shocker: It’s not rich conservatives who run the world:
There you have it: A wealthy Democratic donor admits he funds candidates to improve his bottom line. And yet I hear from the Senate floor no denunciations of his attempts to buy American democracy, no labeling of him as un-American. I have not received a piece of direct mail soliciting donations to fight David L. Cohen’s hijacking of the political process, nor do I wake up every day to investigations of the Cohen political and charitable network. Why?
It’s a rhetorical question, of course.
[Monday-morning update]
Related thoughts from Ed Driscoll.