Thursday Links
We won at trivia last night, and ate for free, enjoying the fruits of our previous victories. Herewith have some links to celebrate. (Yeah, you get the party you paid for.)
A) Jim C. Hines discusses The Politics of Comfort. Jim's point is that most if not all writing has a political content. The money quote:When Ann Leckie chose to write about a protagonist from a genderless society in Ancillary Justice, that was a political choice. So was Jim Butcher’s choice to write Harry Dresden as a straight white male. Neither of those choices is automatically Right or Wrong.
B) On free speech, like this guy I support free speech AND I support criticism of speech.
C) The folks at a site called The Truth About Guns re-enacted the Charlie Hebdo shooting (which has a lot of tactical similarities to a "standard" workplace shooting) and found that one armed bystander was not enough to stop the killing.
D) My open letter to James Fallows was published on his site.
E) Apparently, anti-environmentalists argue that, just like when we ran out of whale oil, when we run out of regular oil we'll switch seamlessly to something else. The actual history of the event begs to differ.
A) Jim C. Hines discusses The Politics of Comfort. Jim's point is that most if not all writing has a political content. The money quote:When Ann Leckie chose to write about a protagonist from a genderless society in Ancillary Justice, that was a political choice. So was Jim Butcher’s choice to write Harry Dresden as a straight white male. Neither of those choices is automatically Right or Wrong.
B) On free speech, like this guy I support free speech AND I support criticism of speech.
C) The folks at a site called The Truth About Guns re-enacted the Charlie Hebdo shooting (which has a lot of tactical similarities to a "standard" workplace shooting) and found that one armed bystander was not enough to stop the killing.
D) My open letter to James Fallows was published on his site.
E) Apparently, anti-environmentalists argue that, just like when we ran out of whale oil, when we run out of regular oil we'll switch seamlessly to something else. The actual history of the event begs to differ.