HOW IS THAT WORKING OUT FOR TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING: How To Win The Battle And Lose The War.
Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt
September 16, 2015
YES IT’S WHAT WE NEED FROM THE GLITTERATI: Oooh, more advice.
BUT WOMEN ARE HYPERGAMIC: Love shouldn’t require a college degree.
IT’S COME TO THIS: California Has to Outlaw Free Speech to Save It.
EUROPE WANTED US TO BE MORE LIKE THEM: Europe’s Refugee Crisis Will End When the Middle East Empties Out.
The mess with the refugees stems from the mess in Syria… which stems from the West’s determination to not intervene during the uprising against Assad. That crisis got worse because everyone, including the U.S., was eager to leave Iraq and not deal with rebuilding that country or the Arab world as a whole.
THIS IS NOT WHAT “BARE ALL” MEANS: Colorado park stays closed because too many people are trying to take selfies with bears.
September 15, 2015
LOGGING OFF FOR TODAY: With the all important question — How your office would look like if your boss was a cat.
SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD FOR THIS: America’s Legal Order Begins to Fray.
SAY THE RACISTS: Color-Blindness Is Counterproductive.
GIVEN WHERE THE CULTURE HAS GONE SINCE, GOOD: Miss America CEO Offers Public Apology to Vanessa Williams as She Takes the Judge’s Seat 32 Years After Relinquishing Her Title.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Science Integrity Is The Lowest In 500 Years.
SO MUCH FOR THE BEEFEATERS: Corbyn, Cameron and the Vegan Choice.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE AMERICAN CHAVEZ: Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’s Proposals: $18 Trillion.
September 14, 2015
THUNDERBOLT IRON: Anthony Bourdain Melts a Meteorite to Make a Beautiful Blade.
OF COURSE THEY DO: Germany Imposes Border Checks Amid Migrant Wave. I’ll note it’s the SANE thing to do.
A LONG KEPT SECRET: And a gallant lady.
YOU KNOW, IN CASE YOU NEED ONE: Building A Fantasy Army: Leaders.
DO I NEED TO SAY IT: Okay, then. Faster, please. Hidden in Einstein’s Math: Faster-than-Light Travel?
WELL AT LEAST THEY SHOW COURAGE FOR ONCE: WATCH: “I’m My Own Prophet”, Topless Feminists Storm Stage At Muslim Conference.
IN THE MAIL: Clockwork Lives by Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart. (I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve rarely seen Kevin — who is a friend — so excited about something he wrote.)
SOMEONE TO SCAM AT YOU: Fake recruiters on LinkedIn are targeting infosec pros.
“They will approach you by sending a general recruiter message with a profile picture of an attractive woman,” he then explained their modus operandi. “The job will be relative to your job. They will ‘scout’ a few people (besides you). After about a week they stop sending out new requests, the profile picture is removed and a bit later their name is changed making it hard to find these people back in your list if its big). In about a month the accounts disappear, not sure if on purpose.”
I THINK HEINLEIN KNEW THE ANSWER: A scarcity of economic growth. From the article: “The causes of the productivity collapse are unclear.”
… if you don’t read Heinlein. If you do, you’ll remember this:
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
September 13, 2015
THE FAILURE OF SWEDEN’S IMMIGRATION POLICY: Look North, Chancellor Merkel.
SAY SEE IT WITH GRAPHS: From Madisonian Constitutionalism to Wilsonian Statism?
WHO CREATES THESE DEFINITIONS: A Toast to Reasonable Drinking.