So last night for supper, I had two young men try to Mormonize me, which I had never had done to me before. It was interesting, like a date, a date with Jesus or Joseph Smith, maybe ( Read more... )

I just figured it out last week, but I have been trying not to say it aloud for fear the words make it magically true. It is true, though. Peter Watts, that Canadian science fiction writer whose work I so enjoyed? He's one angry asshole. Online, it's one of his primary modes of being. I had seen commenters to his blog call him one, but I dismissed ( Read more... )

I think I'm done. I have caved to the trolling, caved to the mean-spirited misogyny, the lack of moderation, I'm just sick of the sly abuse. The intellectual work-out is no longer worth it for me. I want to feel sad, but I'm doing this myself, not in some grand principle-of-the-thing gesture, but because I keep floating past the website, seeing ( Read more... )