More Words, Deeper Hole

Jim Baen is in hospital following a stroke, as mentioned in an early entry on this LJ. Some of the discussion veered into the merits or lack thereof of Baen Books, which normally I am up for. At this particular point in time, I would prefer to avoid heated discussions on this subject until Baen gets out of hospital (Individual books, on the other hand, are still fair game).

It's like the Chalker thread on rasfw. I was going to review one of his collections when he died but I noticed that a fair chunk of the book touched on a reliable hot-button for rasfw [1] and held off, rather than let his widow get a flamewar as a memorial.

1: I don't recall whether the hot button was EDITORS: THREAT OR MENACE or THE EVIL THAT CRITICS DO LIVES AFTER THEM. Either one is a reliable way to start an angry argument.