Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

EUROPE IN GENERAL:  I think France may be lost.

The US might save itself, but while we’re busy the world is going down hard.

THIS IS THE LEFT’S EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING:  CNN Clowns: Of Browning And Grievances.

For instance, when I didn’t like academic, Marxist SF I got told that’s because I didn’t like women, immigrants and minorities writing science fiction.  For the left this makes sense, because you can’t possibly disagree with them, so it must be that you’re scared of women, minorities and immigrants. Sigh.

MEANWHILE INDIE AUTHORS WORK WITHOUT A NET, AND FOR YOUR BUCK: Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

I know. I am one. I am fortunate to have built a fandom over years in traditional publishing. Most of the people I link in my Sunday promo posts haven’t. So, I do what I can for them.

THOSE “TRUE” ARTISTS ARE A LOT LIKE “TRUE”  WRITERS:  DAILY ART FIX: Soap For True Artists.

And to quote Heinlein’s character Wyoming Knott in Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, I want to yell at them “Oh, you rockheads. You deserve to starve.”

Of course, most of them don’t. To quote Heinlein in another book “Artists supported by the government are whores. Incompetent ones.”  But you know, they don’t seem to care.

OUR INSTITUTIONS NEED A MASSIVE BITCHSLAPPING:  The US Navy falls to virtue signaling.

Either they remember they’re Americans, or we’ll have to remind them.

THE BIAS OF NORMALCY CAN KILL YOU:  Yom HaShoah and the importance of recognizing when the rules of the game have changed.

Not just the conviction that “it can’t happen here.” There is also the deep in-built certainty that tomorrow will be more or less like today, and the worst that can happen within relatively safe bounds. Even while everything is shifting against you. From Pompeii to Nazi Germany, from Alexander’s conquests to Communist Russia, the normalcy bias has killed more human beings than any other factor in history.

BARELY:  Supreme Court lifts California’s COVID ban on household religious gatherings.

An (allegedly) American Supreme Court, working under Constitutional authority barely defends religious freedom.

You know, if we attach electricity collecting devices to the graves of the founders, their gyrations should power the nation as long as the Junta is in power and the institutions corrupted.  It is up to us not to make it endlessly renewable energy of course.

STUPIDITY OR MALICE?  Biden Border Blunders Continue.

As in the first two Obama terms, it is important to remember that sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice. And sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from terminal stupidity.