Showing posts with label Sci-fi and such. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sci-fi and such. Show all posts
Saturday, June 11, 2016

DC Comics’ New 52 and Rebirth: A Corporate Theory

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For what it's worth, one disturbingly simple way to explain half the strange DC Comics Universe events of the past five years might be ...
Friday, July 3, 2015

“Essential Hayek” and “Taking a Stand”

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•Careful observers will have noticed I have four favorite topics on this blog, basically sci-fi, music, science, and politics. But ha...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

“Men of War” and “Terminator Genisys”

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•Alex Rose’s book Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima is out this month, and it should app...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

“I, Liar” and “X-Files”

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•Janice Erlbaum gets inside the head of a despicable person in her novel I, Liar , showing us convincingly the process of character formati...
Monday, June 15, 2015

10 Impressions Made by “Fingerprints of the Gods”

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Ten thoughts on weird revisionist history -- inspired by a book that claims Antarctica was mapped by ancient civilizations before it was c...
Monday, May 25, 2015

7 Habits of the “Too Big to Fail” (and a Lloyd Cole invite)

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It’s good to commemorate the past, as people are doing today, but the future matters as well. Time and again, people assume big, old insti...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

“The Problem of Political Authority”: a dozen anarchist thoughts (Huemer me)

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1. Camilo Gomez informs me there’s a dinky Democratic Freedom Caucus within the Democratic Party (including one member of the St. Louis C...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

10 Items for Mother’s Day (and Todd’s Broadcasts)

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1. If you want to be a good mom like mine, you don’t necessarily want to follow the example of Hillary Clinton , who has reportedly lied a...