Sci-fi/Fantasy writer Anne McCaffrey passed away on Monday from a stroke at the age of 85. I always loved McCaffrey’s blend of fantasy with just enough hard sci-fi to keep things making sense, wrapped in a writing style that kept the pages turning effortlessly. 85 is a good run, yet simultaneously too soon. I think [...]
Is the day my tolerance for those who would blame the victim, those who would submit, and those who insist on not only remaining willfully stupid but who strive to instill and enforce their ignorance on everyone else died along with those on the planes and in the towers. Radical Islam is what it has [...]
(Originally posted on Memorial Day, 2005) In Memoriam To those hardy souls who took up arms in the days before we even had a nation of our own, paying in blood with musket and tomahawk to lay the groundwork for the Union to come. Those who laid down their lives against the French and their [...]
