politics
Arbitrary Government
One thing that eludes Statists of all stripes is the fact that the more discretion the State has to act, the more prone it is to manifest the baser aspects of human nature. When the State is free to act Read more…
about the blog
Priorities
Writing tip: If you want to really do this, you can’t complain about lacking the time. If you lack the time, it’s only because you have placed things higher on the priority list than actually writing. Things like blogging. . Read more…
politics
Why the FCC imposing Net Nutrailty is a Bad Thing
Talking about this. Most of the supporters of the move may be correct in the effect of the proposed rules. In fact the problem with the FCC has very little to do with exactly what they are attempting to do, Read more…
about the blog
Still here
The quiet is due to me working on Marked, the new project that (at the moment) supersedes the NaNoWriMo novel. I’m working on that one because, even though the NaNoWriMo project has more words, Marked is in a state closer Read more…
about the blog
Upgrading is a dangerous thing. . .
Well I applied the security update to WordPress and everything went fine, then I tried to upgrade my calendar plugin, and it nuked the whole site. You will notice the calendar is now gone. . . I’m going to have Read more…
politics
No one has said this about Wikileaks
At least no one I’ve seen. But the U.S. Government should be damn thankful this happened the way that it did. We dodged a major bullet that could have been way, way, more damaging than this debacle has been. How Read more…
Apotheosis Trilogy
I owe someone at SF Signal a beer.
Here’s the podcast. They review their best-of-2010 lists and I actually got props from two of their panelists for Heretics. I’m starting to get nervous, what if John doesn’t like the final book? Also, watch that podcast, I’ll be recording Read more…
internet
Utopias again
So Charlie Stross has posted a lament about the dearth of Utopias in SF of late. If you follow my blog, you may already have a good idea of what I think about that. There are several issues I have Read more…
internet
Everyone does this different.
From another Steve I have linkage to Jeff VanderMeer showing some of the process of revision he goes through, sending pages of his manuscript to red pencil nirvana. It’s interesting to me, because I’m somewhat a polar opposite when it Read more…
politics
Sure, Tax the rich if it makes you feel better. . .
It doesn’t do a lot else though. Over time the revenue increase on hiking taxes is pretty much a wash with the downward pressure on revenue caused by the drag taxation causes on the economy. Here is a demonstration in Read more…