McNews weighs in on politics in SF

[james_davis_nicoll]

They're agin it.

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

It's an op-ed by Professor Glenn Reynolds, my old pal from L5. Apparently he likes to link to Ms. Hoyt a lot. And he has a new book out.

[justincognito.livejournal.com]

I got as far as "Glenn Reynolds writing about Larry Correia" and thought, "Is it still a circle jerk if it only has two points?"

[sesmo.livejournal.com]

A self-described a libertarian transhumanist decrying how libertarians are abused by "the system"? Color me shocked.

[martin-wisse.livejournal.com]

My proudest moment as a blogger was getting quoted in the NYT about this asshat.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

In the very first paragraph, he defines "diversity" in SF as "we let both Heinlein and Clarke in", which explains the problem right there.

I'd be worried about any woman I knew about if her husband publicly allied himself with someone who's openly declared that women shouldn't be allowed to vote.

[gareth-wilson.livejournal.com]

Arthur C Clarke actually is a genuine example of diversity, being more-or-less openly gay even very early in his career.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

And British! They'll let anyone into the SFWA.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Poor Larry Correia, getting exactly what he wants like that. His workmanlike pulp is nominated for an award; everyone's talking about him; he's safely ensured that a good old-fashioned white dude is the only one mentioned in news stories about SF, and not, say, Ann Leckie for sweeping practically every short list. It's a hard life for the white guy.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

If he leaves for more rarified pastures, does that mean he's become a libertarian transhumance (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumance)-inist?

[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

I'm looking forward to what Paul Krugman will have to say about politics in SF now.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised Dan Simmons hasn't weighed in yet.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

This.

[seawasp]

Isn't Sarah Hoyt in there somewhere?

[scentofviolets.livejournal.com]

Is the gay thing official yet? Lord knows I've heard it often enough . . . not that there's anything wrong with that!

[fengi.livejournal.com]

That's a great quote.

Gawd, the Old Perfesser.

A few things about that article:
1. Was Instapundit really that unusual in 2001? Even if one doesn't count sites such as Open Diary and LiveJournal, Blogger had been around for three years and I followed many who posted more than once a day. It's had to discern reality from a paper which was still writing "uncommon traffic for a blog (as the journals are commonly known)" in 2003.

2. Ha ha, Josh Marshall engaging in logrolling for that guy.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

They let in a guy who wore sarongs? DIVERSITY COULD GO NO FURTHER.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

He's buried beside Leslie Ekanayake, a Sri Lankan diver whom he called his "only perfect friend of a lifetime" in the dedication to Fountains of Paradise.

He named his home in Sri Lanka "leslie's house", you can see some pictures a guy took of the interior of the house and the exterior of the gravesite a few years after Clarke had died here (http://asiaobscura.com/2013/11/sifting-through-arthur-c-clarkes-dvd-collection-in-colombo.html).

So either gay or REALLY weird.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Didn't I already say that she is?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Was Clarke actually a SFWA member? (It would be unsurprising if he were, but maybe he wasn't.)

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

*snerk*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumance
Fixed the link for ya. LJ relative URL nonsense again.

[seawasp]

You did, but Justincognito was mentioning "only two points".

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

If it's three points, we've totally got an ellipse jerk going.

[avram]

Did his visitor from the future warn him about this?

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Or a self-love triangle.

delete after reading

[hazelchaz]

"Weighs in," not "weights." Unless that's a Canadian English thing?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

It should be both informative and entertaining. At worst, it'll be sane.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

THE DHIMMITUDE IS COMING THROUGH THE WALLS

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

Ah, the days when the Times had to define a blog. Pardon me, a Weblog [sic].

Only a bit over a decade ago, it was.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Perhaps his visitor from the future was actually an elderly JC Wright.

[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

Better drink less Kool-Aid then.

[tandw.livejournal.com]

Not pompously verbose enough.