Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• Hurricane activity is at a 45-year low, and no major hurricane has achieved landfall on US soil in almost ten years. Tornadoes have been pretty scarce recently as well. Then again, it's mid-April and snowing like hell outside right now. Two outa three ain't bad.
• The Food Babe gets her you-know-what handed to her. This, after all, is the woman who

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[baron_waste]

Unfortunately, “Accusations are always Page 1; retractions are always page 3.”  Vani Hari the Food Babe clearly knows how to play the P T Barnum game; like “nuclear winter,” she doesn't need to be right and it doesn't matter if she isn't.  Power perceived, is power achieved.  Her end will come about not through debunking [though a persistent regimen of that couldn't hurt; propaganda works both ways and if “Food Babe” and “wrong” become associated in the public mind, that'll about do it] but more likely by the expiration of her fifteen minutes of fame.  If she follows Ann Coulter's attempt to stay relevant through ever-more-outrageous claims, she'll implode similarly.

Thank you for that article on Sad Puppies.  It does, in passing, a very good job of identifying the true enemies of each side - “social(ist) justice” neurotics on one side…  and Vox Day on the other!  [I used to look at his blog, but it was a bit too far off my frequency and I lost interest.  People who derive their core identity from hate, whether right or (as is more common) left, don't appeal to me.]

As for junkbox.com, well, you're the one who said “What gets posted on the Internet is forever,” so it's good in this case that you were right!

[jeff_duntemann]

The Internet Archive is a boggling thing, and not just the Wayback Machine. I'm still amazed at how few people have heard of The Magazine Rack:

https://archive.org/details/magazine_rack

As for Sad Puppies, well, I have lots more to say if I can work up the nerve to say it. I have an intuition that fandom is being forked, like it was forked circa 1980, and "fringefans" were deprecated. They went off and formed their own fandom, which dwarfs print SFF fandom today. A new fork might not be a bad thing if it occurs along Human Wave lines. Again, more on this in future entries.