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An American just returning from five years abroad takes a look at the current US political climate: Fearful of the present, the outside, the alien, the defender of America looks backward to a mythical golden age in Puritan New England. But now the white anglo-saxon Protestant is armoured with a computer. The culture of soft […]

Last night, I had a nightmare that I couldn’t vote. My voter registration hadn’t gone through. I showed up with my registration card, to no avail. I wasn’t allowed to vote, because I was a woman, and voting democrat. When I tried to get in the booth, I didn’t understand the punch card, because it

Ah, Crossfire… let me count the ways… Remember that Jazzercise instructor Jennifer Portnick who was told she was “too fat” to be one of their fitness instructors (though she’d been successfully teaching for some time, apparently), and took Jazzercise to court over it? Well, she got to be a Crossfire debate point between Marilyn Wan

Got another couple flat rejects from agents for crappy query letters for fantasy saga book 1 (6 months turnaround for one of them – for a *query* letter). “You’re a crappy writer I’ve never heard of. I can’t sell three copies of this frickin’ crap you crappy writers keep pitching. Fuck off.” Why do I

via atrios Check out: Spring Break Fallujah

Today’s mixed bag: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Buffy in the long-running Vampire Slayer TV series and star of the coming The Grudge, wants to follow Pierce Brosnan as the next 007. The star says: “I don’t see why Bond shouldn’t be played by an actress. Everybody else seems to be talked up for the role but

“… She explained polyamory to her mother-in-law, whose response was “That’s just wrong…. It should be either multiamory or polyphilia, but this mixing of Greek and Latin roots? No. Wrong.” I love people. via metaquotes

OK, my chiklits. New book writing starts in earnest today. I’ve got a wacky-strict schedule of 3-5 pages a day, so I’ve gotta get cracking. Taking Friday off as a writing day – I do my best writing from about 7pm-2am. Likely going to go ahead and start the Saturday cafe writing days with local

Had boxing class last night with Sifu Dino. It’s only the second time I’ve worked with him, and you know, I suppose there’s always gotta be one semi-evil instructor at an MA school. First, I do want to say that I was in a brutal woman mood last night, and if he was really all

“They said I wasn’t being funny. And I said to them, ‘I know that, but tomorrow I will go back to being funny, and your show will still blow.’ ” Also, the always entertaining crime/mystery writer John Rickards has got a post up about why American-setting crime novels are far more interesting than boring British