Dec 19, 2024

I always liked science fiction. Science, not so much.

Science always seemed rigid and impersonal. But science fiction, or speculative fiction, if you prefer — especially of the apocalyptic variety — spoke to the gloomy bog-trotter in my DNA.

So I studied the fiction instead of the science, with predictable results....

Dec 12, 2024

When the John Laws collared their suspect in the CEO assassination he was said to have had in his possession a ghost gun, some fake I.D., and a 262-word "manifesto."

By the ghosts of Marx and Engels! That's what I call phoning it in.

Except our man didn't use a phone to compose it. Or a laptop. It was handwritten....

Dec 4, 2024

At The Atlantic magazine,  Noah "Fargo" Hawley says too many reporters are writing fiction these days.

Meanwhile, in a fund-raising email from Mother Jones magazine, David Corn warns that the legacy media's value-neutral, highly inaccurate reviews of the various hams auditioning for parts in the Pestilence-Erect's...