Random Neural Misfirings

Burning Man is the spiritual successor of the Columbian Exposition.

meh

Apparently, the problem is that Kansans don’t know where their bread is buttered.

drops mind-bombs like a deer running through a forest drops turds

I was sent a book and a press packet. I’m choosing to review the press packet.

Hometown boy makes soup.

How language works

Just finished reading Joe Haldeman’s Forever Peace. Very good. Some years ago, I read his book Forever War, one of the standards in the science-fiction canon. This was not a sequel to that, rather a sideways look at some of the same issues in it.
The book starts off slowly with exposition. He’s set up an [...]

Finished reading The Name of the Rose today. An excellent book I can’t recommend highly enough. It is a book about perversions. Perversions of faith, of knowledge, and of sex, and the ways in which these perversion lead to bad ends. It is about the conflict between faith and reason (this theme was the main [...]

Just finished reading Jennifer Government by Max Barry, a blackly satirical story that answers the musical question “what would happen if Ayn Rand had her way?” The book has inspired an online game and is evidently being adapted to the screen.
It would actually make a good comic book, and I don’t mean that in a [...]