After four-plus years of blogging independently (and as part of a group blog), I've been thinking for a while that it was time to join a...

It's one of those ridiculously busy times at work right now, so you'll get nothing of substance from me today. This, however, is mak...

Periodically, someone pops up to tell us we shouldn't like literature in which Bad Things happen. The most recent iteration of this is a...

A few months ago, this video was posted. Very shortly thereafter, a blogger posted an objection to one line of the video: I love ...

There was a time when people who wrote simply wrote science fiction and fantasy along with everything else they made up. Whether that stoppe...

I've been a fan of Insomniac Games from close to the start. When my brother asked whether we'd played a new game and I said, "...

A friend of mine from high school asked on Facebook a few days ago, "Why should I pay for your health insurance?" Because we have ...

Just in time for me to go pick hops this weekend, a couple of related posts on the history of drinking and brewing beer. Does Your Beer G...

I am...not kind to the people who say that all politicians are alike. I don't tolerate those who try to tell me there aren't any goo...

This weekend, Peter Berkowitz published a piece in the opinion section of The Wall Street Journal that probably ought to raise serious quest...

I miss DuWayne. He used to have more time to come play online, even after he started school. It was limited time, of course, because he miss...

I was thinking to myself that I needed to post a story about changes today, since there are (good) changes in the works for this blog and fo...

If you don't know what The Secret is, consider yourself lucky to have escaped one more instance of the sort of pseudo-mystical self-hel...

I've long had a complicated relationship with euphemisms. On their own, I don't like them much. I'm annoyed by people's inab...

Things are a bit quiet around the blog at the moment. Somehow, running myself into exhaustion every other day working on the house (updating...