Sheryl did a nice job hitting the high points on the current mania to suppress the opposition by curating it out of the mainstream. Short and to the point.
Category: On-Line Article Reviews
Reviews of blog posts and other articles
Who is 20BooksTo50K?
One of our readers here, Chemist, sent me this link in response to my link to Dave Freer’s post on sf short stories. So I read it.
Turns out 20BooksTo50K is a a “community dedicated to helping authors with the business of writing.” What could be wrong with that? Well anyone who remembers the Puppy Wars over the Hugo nominations know that the scolds of science fiction would prefer to burn down their own awards rather than allow anyone who isn’t up on the current LGBTQ grovelling to get into the nominations. so it surprises me not at all to hear that Puppy redux is happening at the Nebula awards over the nomination of several 20BooksTo50K authors.
Having been a strong supporter of the Puppy writers (in terms of buying their books), I’ll have to check the authors in 20BooksTo50K to see if any of them click with me.
So many books, so little lifetime left.
Thanks to Chemist for the heads up.
Howie Carr breaks Down the AP Stylebook for Both Parties
We all know how the Media describes things about the Left and Right, namely positively and negatively respectively. Howie is not breaking any new ground here but he adds the right wing “smirk” as the newest crime of the deplorables and apparently it justifies violence.
Dave Freer Over at Mad Genius Club Has a Post on Short Stories
Dave Freer over at Mad Genius Club talks about the change in reading habits that has more or less done in the short story (specifically in the Sf&F genres). As a prospective author I am interested in the state of the publishing world. Having so little time left for writing, short stories interest me but reading this article was not particularly encouraging. Well, it’s interesting and comments to the post are good too.
Dave’s on our side of the political spectrum (part of the Sad Puppy brigade) and my grandson really liked his young adult fantasy book Changeling’s Island so I read his posts often.
Howie Carr Wants to Know if the MAGA Hat Victim Will Get the Star Treatment Like Jussie
Up here in New England we had a non-fake hate crime involving a MAGA hat wearing individual. But up here he was the victim. You’ve probably heard of the illegal immigrant from Brazil that attacked someone wearing the hat. Howie Carr is a local reporter who loves this stuff. He goes into loving detail and asks when will the victim be on Good Morning America like Jussie. Now ICE is going to deport her. Does it get better than that?
https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/02/26/howie-carr-lid-flipping-flap/
Vox Day Links to an Interesting Article About the Methodists Rejecting Gay Marriage and Clergy
It seems that the only thing that prevented the changes was that the African delegates were unafraid to say that these changes did not reflect the Christian message. Unexpected consequences of the left’s favorite buzz words diversity and globalism.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/02/africa-saves-methodists.html
Michael Anton is Interviewed on Powerline
Michael Anton wrote the Flight 93 election back in 2016 and he is one of the people who recognized how important it was to beat Hillary Clinton. He has served in the Trump White House and he is a Claremont guy. I think he is one of the smarter guys out there and he’s on our side. I found this podcast very interesting.
Trump Announces Rosenstein’s Replacement
Everything takes forever in Washington. Now it’ll be a month until we have Rosenstein’s replacement in place. Rosen is currently Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation. I hope President Trump has some feel good stuff coming up soon because I haven’t seen any winning in a while and I’m getting bored.
White House Officially Announces Rosenstein Replacement – Jeffrey Rosen to Deputy AG…
18FEB2019 – American Greatnesss Post of the Day – Foggy Crossroads by Angelo Codevilla
Codevilla reviews what he thinks the choices are for President Trump. Either deliver the Wall and Immigration Law enforcement or lose in 2020. He also discusses the bi-party ruling class and what part they play in our awful politics. No surprises here. Just the outline of what to look for going into the coming election cycle.
The Z-Man Addresses Fraternal Isolation
This post is along the same lines as my ideas about the need for a new fraternal organization.
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=16461#comments
Without a doubt the isolation is one of the biggest penalties we are paying for allowing leftists to destroy our society. Reading this reinforces my belief that starting something new is the way forward.