Daily Archives: July 1, 2008
Today’s Dumb Headline
Posted on July 1, 2008 67 Comments
It’s this, courtesy of MSNBC: It’s stuff like this that makes me wonder if people pay attention to who is actually elected president around these here parts. Let’s review the military service of the folks in the last few presidential elections: 2004 Loser: Vietnam veteran, awarded Silver Star and two Purple Hearts Winner: Defended Texas […]
The Big Secret Audio Project I Haven’t Been Telling You About, Revealed
Posted on July 1, 2008 45 Comments
A few months ago, I was approached by Steve Feldberg, the Director of Content at Audible.com, who asked if I would be interested in doing an audio project with them. What project? Well, we wrestled with it for a while and came up with the idea of collecting a bunch of really interesting science fiction […]
The Big Idea: Nancy Kress
Posted on July 1, 2008 15 Comments
Your sweet adorable pet: What if it was a raging vector of viral infection? Maybe that’s not something you actually want to spend time thinking about, but that’s okay, since Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Nancy Kress already thought about it for you. The result: Dogs, which Publishers Weekly is lauding as “a spine-chilling, […]
The Hunting of the Snark, Indeed
Posted on July 1, 2008 36 Comments
The Bush Administration’s evidence against a suspected terrorist gets a smackdown in federal court: With some derision for the Bush administration’s arguments, a three-judge panel said the government contended that its accusations against the detainee should be accepted as true because they had been repeated in at least three secret documents. The court compared that […]
Aw, Crap
Posted on July 1, 2008 15 Comments
Behind on the duck contest winner. I’ll announce it later today. I swear.
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