Chip

Frederik Pohl on Samuel R. Delany

Golden APA

Discordian conspiracy revealed

In Memoriam

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Too many have been killed already.

Bad football

100 worst players ever. Was Rusty Lisch really worse than Ryan Leaf?

Grand Masters

The Space Dog Podcast offers recordings from the Science Fiction Oral History Association by some of the people who created the sf we love. They're beginning with a discussion among Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl, and Gordon R. Dickson. I think this is a great idea, though I trust no one will mistake it for a fanzine.

Thanx to netmouse

Symbolic vote

UN decides executing gays is not all that bad.

Thanx to awils1

Right Man for the Job

So there's this Republican who wants to chair the House Energy Committee even though he believes that God will protect us from global warming. I have dug up an account of an equally qualified predecessor:

The worst appointment was Tom Shaw to the War Office. When one of his civil servants sought ratification for some urgent action over riots in Palestine, Shaw's private secretary relayed a telephoned reply: "Mr. Tom Shaw is a pacifist and does not wish to have anything to do with war or military operations."

--Robert Blake, The Decline of Power, 1915-1964