Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

IT’S TIME TO TAKE THE GLOVES OFF:  The Niceness Effect.

A DIFFERENT ANSWER TO WHY SCHOOL SHOOTINGS HAPPEN:  The Values We Lost.

PRIVILEGE, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND:  A fair go.

OR, IN OTHER WORDS, WE’VE HAD ENOUGH:  Sauce for the Gander.

I DON’T BUY IT.  ON THE OTHER HAND IF THE DEMOCRATS BELIEVE THIS, THEY’LL BECOME ANTI-THIRD-WORLD-MIGRANT IN TWO SECONDS FLAT:  Data: Low-Skilled Immigration Boosts Republicans.

(I think the study is flawed by thinking that left and right in America and in Europe mean the same thing.  Right in Europe is “blood and soil” while left is “internationalist.”  ALL of them, left and right are socialists.  Immigration to America skilled or unskilled boosts the democrats because they’re closer to the spectrum the immigrants understand.  Their entire left to right spectrum, in other countries, is compassed by the democrats.  It takes years for the immigrants to even understand that, and realize the right here is the party of freedom, and that freedom is desirable.  And that’s the ones who even ever get it, which is not universal.)

IN THE EMAIL FROM KAL SPRIGGS: Valor’s Duty.

Duty is heavier than a mountain; death is lighter than a feather.

Jiden’s life at the Century Military Academy is forever changed when she is asked to volunteer for a special program.  They want to implant her and other cadets with a special, prototype neural computer.  It will make them smarter, more capable, and able to split their attention between dozens of activities.  Her friends jump at the opportunity… but Jiden isn’t so certain.

She sees it as her duty to volunteer. Despite all of her doubts, it’s a duty she owes to her world and to her friends.  But as things begin to go wrong, as her life is put in danger once again, Jiden quickly realizes that she may have shouldered a duty that she can’t bear.  The implants might be driving her fellow cadets violently insane… and Jiden may be next.

She will need to muster every ounce of courage, every bit of intelligence, in order to save her friends.  Even then, her own survival might be too much to ask.  But Jiden doesn’t know how to back down, and she’ll do her duty no matter the cost.