Good to know

Expressing a belief that Salazar's Portugal was not "fine" will get you an f-bomb from Ms. Hoyt.

[and also banned]

Thank you CBC

Because the knowledge that if I slept in I'd be scourged by listening to Michael Ignatieff pontificate was just what I needed to get me up and moving.

[I already had a worst liberal leader ever tag?]

A question

Two generations ago did SF authors turn into painful self-parodies with the same frequency that they do now? Or hadn't SF been around long enough for that process to occur?

Nightfall: Guest of Honor

Guest of Honor

This is adapted from a story by Peter S. Beagle. In it a cruel and proud dowager invites Death to one of her soirees, using a method of communicating with Death that underlines how heartless the old lady is. Death accepts the invitation but because this is a Beagle this does not devolve into whirlwind of carnage.

I always say I should read more Beagle than I have and I never do.

Which is better?

Eurydice, belatedly realizing Orpheus isn't coming*, finds her own way out of Hades.


As above but rather than not coming at all, Orpheus shows up late (added later) by which time Eurydice has found her own escape. This may explain why the god of the dead was not willing to let Orpheus look at the face of the woman he was leading out of Hades.

*He is a poet so it is not like he has to actually do the romantic quest thing to get credit for doing the romantic quest thing, as long as he has an explanation for why Eurydice is not with him.

What is the human-caused climate change denier position

On the Dust Bowl.