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Top 10 Science Fiction Characters Who’d Make Great Presidents, Part 2
We're looking at science fiction characters I think would make great presidents. Yesterday we saw #6-10, and today we're counting down to #1. #5 Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man Since Ross Perot in 1992, American voters have flirted with the idea of a business-savvy,...
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Top 10 Science Fiction Characters Who’d Make Great Presidents, Part 1
In honor of President's Day this week, here are my Top 10 of Science Fiction characters I'd support for president. For most of these, we'd have to amend the Constitutional clause limiting the presidency to "natural-born citizens". But that's small beans compared to...
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Heir to the Raven is now live!
My latest epic fantasy novel, Heir to the Raven, is now available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon. It's the first in the Pierced Veil epic fantasy series, a 5-book cycle set in the world of Trosketh. An ensemble cast of characters provides you with a broad range of...
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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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