The other NBA

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award.

Thanx to File 770

Getting Metta and Metta

As I more and more feel that I am living in satirical sf, rather than the kind with space and robot maids and computer screens that don't move when you're trying to write on them, what keeps me going is the people I care about. One of them, Amy Thomson, has suggested keeping them in mind with a Buddhist prayer known as metta. I'm doing it, and I encourage you to do likewise. Here it is:

May X be safe.
May X be healthy and strong.
May X be peaceful and free from suffering.
May X be happy.

Monkey See, Monkey Do

The UK had Brexit; we had Trump. The UK made Boris Johnson their Foreign Secretary. People in the pucoming administration are saying, “Ooh, a mayor who wasn’t quite as bad as Rob Ford! How about Rudy?”