Until there is more information I have little to say about Boston

Reactions to the events in Boston, on the other hand, turn out not to uniformly attract accolades.

You just used a terrorist attack to pimp your latest book.

You are the liberal Glenn Beck. Congratulations on winning that particular race to the bottom.

Another reaction

As the details about the bombings in Boston unfold, it'd be easy to be scared. It'd be easy to feel powerless and demand that our elected leaders do something -- anything -- to keep us safe.

It'd be easy, but it'd be wrong. We need to be angry and empathize with the victims without being scared. Our fears would play right into the perpetrators' hands -- and magnify the power of their victory for whichever goals whatever group behind this, still to be uncovered, has. We don't have to be scared, and we're not powerless. We actually have all the power here, and there's one thing we can do to render terrorism ineffective: Refuse to be terrorized.

Cue the sweeping generalization generator!

It's possible to divide SF in any number of two camp sets but not all models are equally valid.

The Nebulas: 1973

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Lifted from the Weasel King

If this error turns out to be an actual mistake Reinhart-Rogoff made, well, all I can hope is that future historians note that one of the core empirical points providing the intellectual foundation for the global move to austerity in the early 2010s was based on someone accidentally not updating a row formula in Excel."

Also

There's a small black and white cat lurking around my neighborhood. It's shy but curious about me.

A new-to-me Of Men and Monsters video.