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“It is better to be careful 100 times than to get killed once.” – Mark Twain I know I don’t belong here, because I’d say: “It is better to die once for something grand than to live a hundred years doing nothing.” I’m such the romantic.

There are days when I’m embarrassed to be an American. Days when Americans with all of the best intentions don’t do their homework, and end up looking like idiots. Why do we keep doing this? Why do we keep going into places to “fix” things without doing our homework? I was asked in a previous

Turned on CNN, and found one of the Iraqi presidential candidates using all the catch phrases, “pockets of resistance,” “free and fair elections,” “cival war,” “if Osama Bin Laden, Zalawi and Saddam don’t want us to have elections, then we have to have them,” etc. My favorite, “All we have to do is make sure

Thoughts on fantasy fiction, from China Mieville. Also, Vandermeer is back from hiatus, and blogging again. Yay.

All day meeting (as a nice addendum to yesterday’s desire post, I spent most of one presenter’s speech deciding whether or not I’d go to bed with him. This made it really difficult to take notes), Blaine took off early, Yellow’s not there, and the expected and much-hyped big drunken dinner is apparently big-wig invite

“Well, we still have zero visibility in Denver, but we think we might have figured out what’s wrong with the equipment here in the cockpit, so we’re just going to go ahead and attempt a landing.” At this point, you’ve just got to sit back, relax, and turn up your CD player. In fact, the

I’m off to Denver. I’m bringing my own personal laptop, which doesn’t have so many problems with wireless internet, so I’ll be in touch…

I just can’t believe people spend money on crap like this. Oh, well, to each their own. Good luck getting your kids to college. In any case, here’s a couple wins for those who think fascism sunks.

Amanda’s taken on the “do women actually have sex drives”? crap, and since it’s something I’ve been meaning to say a lot about, I’ll dive off her post and take the opportunity. I’m tired of arguing biological crap about differences between men and women. The big difference is, was, and for a while more at

Iain Rowan is doing some guestblogging over at Vandermeer’s joint, and he’s posted an overview of the work of brilliant English writer Rupert Thomson. My buddy Julian turned me on to Rupert Thomson with one book: The Book of Revelation. Read it. The rest will follow. A true Brutal Woman book – don’t say I