Watching the current congress, it is obvious that Republicans care about women and children the same way the NHL cares about hockey pucks. There's not a scrap of interest in their welfare; they just want to slap 'em around to score points for their fans.

Vignettes from the Sotomayor confirmation hearings ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention that I was relieved to note that Republicans will agree to confirm a pro-choice HHS secretary when pigs fly. I've decided that snark never gets old.

A recent review of Shadow Valley by Steven Barnes is quite positive, but to me striking for one thing. It implies that genre fiction, specifically SF/F is somehow unworthy ( Read more... )

Random things ( Read more... )