Tag: Books
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Nick Mamatas – Let us put an end to Geek Pride
A subculture is not a counterculture. A consumer culture is not a subculture. We are not all in this together. Your social Laws (Godwin’s, etc.) are as insipid as any aphorism your grandmother might have cross-stitched and put on display two generations ago. What you think is cool is not cool. What you decide is […]
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The Haiti Earthquake: Chicken’s don’t laugh where turkeys get plucked.
I can’t say much else about the Haiti earthquake, but I think Haiti deserves to be put into a context. Haiti is a nation that threw off it’s European dominator well before any other, by a slave rebellion no less. As a result, the “civilized” world has never forgiven Haiti. The new nation had to […]