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Soda Pop Soldier Book Review

Soda Pop Soldier by Nick Cole Harper Voyager, 2014 $4.99; 368 pages ISBN 978-006-221022-7 Nick Cole describes this book as "Ready Player One meets Call of Duty". I would wholeheartedly agree with that assessment. I would also recommend this book, at least to anyone with the same

LinkFest 2016-04-30

Titan's Great Lakes Appear to be Filled with Clear, Colorless Methane Hopefully we will be up to the task if any life is found on the moons of other planets. Why is Reaction Taboo? Any treatment of the rising right in either America or Europe needs to take

The Long View: Our Stolen Future

This topic is one I have found it rather difficult to write a post about. I've been sitting on this book review of John's for nearly eight months, but it is referenced in the next The Long View blog post, so I need to get it

The Long View 2003-11-20: Incongruous Elements

John guessed correctly in 2003 that the War on Terror postponed culture war issues like gay marriage for the duration of the emergency. Incongruous Elements President Bush gave another one of his remarkable set-speeches at White Hall in London yesterday. As he has been doing since 911, he put the

The Long View 2003-11-17: Arnold's Apocalypse

Unfortunately, the planned Governator series was canceled following [another] revelation of martial infidelity by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Which is a pity, because I thought the whole idea was quite funny. Schwarzenegger's career, and the Terminator movies, represent largely ignored parts of American culture and political history. Absurd! you say.

The Long View 2003-11-12: Doomsday matters

Fortunately, many of the people who hate America the most are also the most incompetent. Also, Israel is far more serious than us about policing their borders. Which is why we haven't had to deal with the awful spectacle that would result from a terrorist attack on the

The Martian Book Review

The Martian by Andy Weir Broadway Books, 2014 $15.00; 387 pages ISBN 978-0-553-41802-6 This is a book for nerds. Clearly written by a big fat nerd, for other big fat nerds. I mean that in the best possible way, since I absolutely loved reading it. From his dust jacket