Signal boost

C.J. Cherryh says:

Scammers are at it again: Amazon booted these guys, and they're now at B&N: protest this, please. They use any writer's name and rep, collect a bunch of semi-relevant Wiki articles, then put it up on an e-book house as a book entitled 'the collected works of' fill-in-author. If you're a writer, search your name on Amazon and B&N and see if there are any books on there you didn't write. Search the works of departed SFWA members, too.

Mandatory chivalry

Enforced on black people. Are we surprised?

Thanx to Pandagon.

Are our children safe?

The menace under the bed

Thanx to andrewducker

Head in the cloud

As our Internet connectivity flickers on & off, I am grateful that I have my data in my own computer where it belongs

In your heart, you know he's right

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

--Barry Goldwater