Planning to do the sensible thing and sign up for a free week after the full season is over. Or maybe the full series. Will see.

Don’t forget Michelle Sagara’s _{Cast in Deception (The Chronicles of Elantra)}, which I ordered last July (!) and will be available on January 23.

Re. the kid, I think it’s pretty clear that he’s one of many Force users who are “nobody” and not connected to the Jedi or the Sith. Recruiting such people to the “rebel” side is important, and it’s clear this kid is on board.

My mother has had an iPhone for several years. She still can’t retrieve her voicemail reliably. She doesn’t know the difference between texting and e-mail. (She’s never sent me either one.) I can “teach” her things, but she doesn’t have anything approaching an intuitive understanding of the technology, and she does…

It is almost undoubtedly a pseudoscience.

FWIW, I agree that Clinton’s e-mail purge was shady. Politifact sides with the FBI in concluding that there was no evidence of wrong-doing, but the record is murky. However, if you want to hang Clinton for her team’s destruction of e-mail records, you’re going to have to hang Trump as well for his much more extensive…

Brainwashing works. Thanks ever so much, Rupert Murdoch.

It’s very possible that this is actually CDC upper management trying to preserve projects on vulnerable populations, fetal development, transgender AIDS patients, etc., by encouraging scientists to formulate their budget requests in language that will slip past administration commissars. This shouldn’t have to happen,…

This is bad. I must say, however, that researchers who work for government agencies at any level know that political commissars will ask them to make their language *and conclusions* (usually more important) comport with their agency’s current politically correct lexicon and self-presentation. This is not new and it…

Public financing of elections. Period.

Good to know he’s as corrupt, as much of an ass, and as inappropriate a pick for his position as is his boss.

The comment about write-in votes cannot be about fraud unless Trump (or the lawyer who wrote the tweet) does not understand how elections work. If he wanted to go there (and he probably will later), he would have invented a conspiracy theory about Jews bused in from West Palm Beach. Instead, he’s minimizing Jones’…

“American Astronauts Are Going Back to the Moon”? Are you seriously that credulous, Dvorsky? Better title: “Trump Pretends that He Has a Plan for New Manned Space Missions in Order to Divert Attention from the Russia Investigation and his Endorsement of a Pedophile Even Though He Does Not Give a F**k about Science,…

Why does this sound so familiar? Possibly because in 1989 Bush Sr. announced a similar program. And, not surprisingly, “Mr. Bush offered no estimate of the cost of the space ventures and no timetable for carrying them out, saying he had asked the National Space Council, led by Vice President Dan Quayle, to make…

There are multiple monuments in Western New York to the underground railroad, including the recent “Freedom Crossing” (across the Niagara River to Canada) exhibit and sculpture in Lewiston.

Watched the whole thing, with liberal use of FFWD. Would have been better had writers taken the bigotry of the Inhuman aristocracy more seriously (“they just don’t know any better”) and given Maximus a flaw other than being a lying selfish slime-bucket. And turned a potentially-fun character like Louise into a boring…

The blurb here for “Into the Drowning Deep” actually describes the novella “Rolling in the Deep” and not this follow-on novel. “Into the Drowning Deep” takes place years after the loss of the Atargatis and it follows a larger and better-equipped ship’s attempt to study the creatures that devoured the crew of the…

If you can’t tell meaningful stories within a serialized series the problem is with your storytelling, not the serialized framework.

Bad news. FTWD is terrible and can only hurt TWD.

False equivalency. Democrats have already shown that they are willing to work with Trump when he will actually deal and not just yell at them to accept the unacceptable. Furthermore, some of what Trump promised during the campaign had liberal Democrats hoping they could work with him. Trump had no intention, however,…