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Geektastic: Warhammer 40K Tournament
Aside from writing books, my favorite diversion is Warhammer 40K. It's a great hobby for geeks, with so many angles to keep it fresh. It involves model-building and painting, wargaming, and a complex lore encompassing 10,000 years and dozens of novels. I was able to...
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Onomatopoeia
Having a helluva time sleeping tonight. Can't stop wondering: "If onomatopoeia were an onomatopoeia, what sound would it represent?"
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2018 Election Commentary
Biggest surprise of the night? That there's actually a county in Texas named Deaf Smith. I'm assuming the clanging of hammer and anvil is what deafened the smith. My only commentary on the 2018 elections is that I once did shots of Nemiroff honey pepper vodka with...
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Get a free, autographed copy of ‘Heir to the Raven’
Help Launch Heir to the Raven! Go here for the tl;dr version: https://goo.gl/forms/LgtSWmKV8y53ttyW2 Asking for help is hard. Alexandra and I published my first novel independently in 2011, just as the digital book world was starting to grow. We intuitively did a...
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Political Tribalism and the Distemper of Our Time
Ben Sasse on Political Tribalism Senator Ben Sasse's comments on political tribalism are timely and welcome. He has, in many ways, taken up the role once played in the Senate by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- bringing thoughtful, academic cultural analysis into...
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Coming of Age with Battles of Westeros
Augie, my youngest son, reached a geek milestone today -- his first real strategy game, Battles of Westeros. We're gaming out the "Battle in the Riverlands" between Houses Stark and Lannister. He's the villain in this scenario. With all my...
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#BelieveWomen, or Take Allegations Seriously?
The NYT just published a toxic bit of race-baiting that I won't reward with a link: "White Women, Come Get Your People." It's most notable for calling white women "gender traitors." This also stuck out to me: "These are the kind of women who think that being falsely...
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Brett Kavanaugh: Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
People talk about how Trump is undermining the rule of law and important social/political conventions and institutions. And he is. But too often unremarked is that, if anything, The Resistance® is doing even more damage with their scorched-earth tactics. We now have...
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My Take on the Kavanaugh Accusations
I refrained from comment on Judge Kavanaugh for a long while, because it was important to see how things developed. We've seen a lot of seemingly decent men exposed as monsters in the past year. Plus, it's important to give accusers a fair hearing, and to be...
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The EU Keeps Swimming Upstream
Not making a political statement, just an observation. The EU's project to engender a "European" identity runs counter to the stream of history for the past 100+ years. Everywhere else we've seen "uber" identities -- imperial, Ottoman, British, Yugoslavian, Soviet,...
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The Creepy Line Documentary Review
Rather than providing a neutral public space for citizens to debate ideas, tech giants are now intervening to promote their own opinions and silence contrary voices. I rarely watch documentaries, but am looking forward to The Creepy Line, which examines their growing...
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Veronica Mars Likely Coming to Hulu!
Deadline just reported that Veronica Mars (and iZombie) creator Rob Thomas is nearing a deal for eight more episodes of the show. Kristen Bell and her co-stars would come to Hulu for a limited run. Other than a Firefly revival, this is the best TV news I could get....
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