Fanniversary

40 years ago today, I finally got up the courage to print out and mail my first zine, The Diagonal Relationship. Most of the good stuff in my life comes from that.

What if everything was fine?

The alternate history we all learned in school

Thanx to Tor.com.

Yesterday

The Rude Pundit uses appropriate obscenity to discuss yesterday’s Congressional effort to kill millions of poor people. I shall make one of my occasional efforts to simulate socially acceptable behavior and translate one of my favorite parts of it into Clean:

Who does that? Who holds a ceremony to brag about being ahead in the first quarter?

Thanx to The Rude Pundit

Queer Ice Cream

If people talked about other things the way they talk about gender identity

Thanx to File 770

Fantastic!

Fantastika Journal

Thanx to File 770

“Australia has better healthcare system than US”

From out of a well-known holster comes a suggestion that we try a system that would be the opposite of what the Republicans want to force on us.