Day of Remembrance for the incarceration of Japanese Americans
Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR's executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans. A bunch of...
Archive for Improving Society
Easy quick intro to contacting your members of Congress
Yesterday, I attended a really useful-to-me presentation titled "Activism 101: Finding your voice in government," about how to engage with...
Pete Seeger on helping
Pete Seeger died three years ago yesterday, so my post about him came up in my Facebook history today. It...
Turning pattern into preparation
Every now and then, I stop at a stoplight behind a long line of cars, and I see a homeless...
England Swings SF, Judith Merril, and the New Wave
I'm finally reading Judith Merril's groundbreaking 1968 anthology England Swings SF. Here are some thoughts. i probably ought to...
As a famous ancient human once wrote
Back in 2003, I noted that when future-setting sf characters refer to “an ancient Terran word,” they nearly always mean...
Misleading graphs
I've seen several potentially misleading graphs in articles lately, so here's a reminder of a couple of common y-axis issues:...
“How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?”
I'm reading Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year from 1972, and most of the stories in it, although...
SH Flashback: “Rapture,” by Sally Gwylan
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective: “Rapture,” by Sally Gwylan A slow-building story of idealist leftist anarchists...
Awesome new forthcoming Ultimates series
I'm really looking forward to the new Ultimates comic book series. The team will consist of Ms. America, Black Panther,...
Some features I want in a Maps app
On my iPhone, I use Google Maps frequently, and Apple Maps fairly regularly. I love both apps, but I can't...
Five lawyers
I happened across an article about the aftermath of the marriage equality ruling at WND (formerly known as WorldNet Daily),...