A modern master

The University of Illinois's Modern Masters of Science Fiction series, which began with Jad Smith's excellent look at John Brunner, goes from strength to strength. The latest discusses Greg Egan, author of such fascinating and thought-provoking works as Permutation City and Distress. Karen Burnham is bicultural: a thoughtful reader who can evaluate the literary qualities and a NASA scientist with the chops to discuss the recent work, which Egan himself suggests should be read with a pencil and paper at hand.

The real old days

Before Wertham, comics were more diverse than you might think.

Thanx to Making Light.

Strangely fascinating

Republican really enjoys condemning Teh Buttsex

Thanx to Pandagon.

Moron on the bench

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who has never been able to see the irony in his suggestion that every courtroom contain a graven image of the Ten Commandments, is offering us the benefits of a bit more of his ignorance, explaining (if that is the word I am looking for) that the First Amendment covers only Christianity because “Buddha didn’t create us, Mohammed didn’t create us.”

Thanx to Charles P. Pierce.

Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!

Will Self says this time the novel really is dead.

Thanx to andrewducker

Using the user

Consent is not just about sex.

Thanx to Geek Feminism.