Saturday, December 6, 2025

One Lemon Leads To Another Dept.

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     There are many things I could say about foreign aid, but the great majority of them are obscene. If we start from the premise that usi...
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For The Advent Season

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     There are several hymns for the Advent season: "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming,...
Friday, December 5, 2025

A Vested Interest In Disorder

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     It’s been said that one should infer the intent behind a system from the results it produces. There’s some validity to that, though it’...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

A Treasure That Must Be Shared

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     I could not take the smallest chance that my Gentle Readers might miss out on this gem: This is the greatest description ever, from a ...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Carta Obsoleta

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     It’s difficult to deal with the news coming out of the United Kingdom these days.      My Gentle Readers already know about some of th...
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Trends In Speculative Fiction: Grimdark

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     The morning email brought me to this interview, by the lovely and talented Abigail Lakewood a.k.a. “Strange Girl,” of fantasy writer P....
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Loneliness

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     There’s been some back-and-forth over this subject recently: men asserting that women have become impossible to please; women counterin...
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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Some Advent Thoughts

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     [This piece first appeared at the old Eternity Road blogsite on December 4, 2005 – FWP ] 1. The Haunting      Via the worthy Lan...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Edges

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     "A man once said to the universe, 'Sir, I exist.'      'However,' replied the universe, 'that fact has not cr...
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