I wish they would keep their natural horse hoof flavor.

Probably the best book. Not on this list. Though not surprised considering the liberal bias in these sites.

Oh dude. I hear you. My boss actually called me a “den mother”. I’m the GM of a consulting company. I get asked about cookies and Christmas cards all the time. I also found out a year into the job that I was getting paid less than a male subordinate and was given a raise to just barely more than him in exchange for…

I work for a big utility company in a technical position, and I am one of 6 women in a group of over 30 people. The majority of the company’s 23,000 employees are male, and the overwhelming majority of women in the company work in administrative support, clerical, or other non-technical roles. The culture can be…

If you haven't, do read Jeremy Scahill's "Blackwater." A few years old, but a brilliant, detailed look at the rise of Blackwater and other PMCs, and the massacre at Nisour Square.

This article has some interesting ideas, but way overstates its case. Clearly the concept of a chemical imbalance isn't entirely a "myth"—the article itself suggests some version of it ("chemical imbalance—lite") may well be correct. Obviously, any full theory of depression should attend to its causes, but treatments…

Gene Wolfe? Anyone who features a torturer as his hero isn't precisely light and fluffy. I suppose it can be considered SF instead of fantasy, but there's not a lot of science anywhere—the Urth of the New Sun is all pretty fantastic. Soldier in the Mist is definitely fantasy and, again, dark.

That same Dragon Magazine (which I lost in a move, sob), had some great other magic items:

Just started watching. AMAZING! I am so Team Pam!

"like very other goddam human structure"

So this new Trek movie will be about Star Trek? About time.

Sometimes you just gotta do the right thing, and not just the convenient thing. Clarkson has been warned and warned and warned and warned again. Eventually you just got to cut your losses, man up, and deal with the consequences.

You hit someone, you're fired. I wish more people understood that. If I deck someone at my office, I expect to be 1.) arrested, and 2.) fired.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Here comes the lunatic fans who are going blame everyone but Clarkson. Reading the comments yesterday was disturbing.

I believe the universe is under absolutely no obligation to respect any of our beliefs.

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If I have to read a whole novel before I can get to the good bits, it's not worth my time.

Can't wait for the third movie Regurgent. It will be split into two films.

So they were able to get a tank, but they couldn't find someone with an actual Simpson Racing Diamondback helmet to present himself as a Stig that doesn't look like he bought one of those really crappy knock off Halloween costumes that costs $20 at Walgreens?