The Smallest Minority

Here's hoping this post makes it past the Google censors.   “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades...

From his review of Michael Anton's new book, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return in the Clairmont Review of Books, The Electi...

I first heard about this man on a Joe Rogan podcast where a guest mentioned him in relation to this quote: With my family, I am a Communis...

This will cause some controversy, I'm sure. I finished reading the novel Sandman Slim last night, but I bookmarked this excerpt: I h...

I'm about halfway through the novel Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey, the sixth in The Expanse science fiction series.  In this...

Author Terry Pratchet wrote in his Discworld novel Feet of Clay , Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, t...

This blog is now thirteen years old. I started TSM on Wednesday, May 14, 2003. I missed the blogiversary last year, and the year before th...

From James Corey's Expanse series novel Abbadon's Gate : If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still b...

I just finished Marko Kloos ' latest novel, Chains of Command . EXCELLENT book. He just keeps getting better. If you've not been...

I saw The Martian this morning with my dad, a former steely-eyed missile man himself. Matt Damon or not, FREAKING OUTSTANDING film. How...

I just banned another commenter.  This pretty much never happens unless the commenter is a spammer.  That's not the case this time.  Thi...

So, until the last couple of days it had been awhile since I'd posted anything.  Sorry about that, but in May of '14, I did say that...

"Flaming rage nozzles of tolerance." If you haven't been following the Sad Puppies assault to wrest control of Science Fictio...

Michael Z. Williamson's latest, A Long Time Until Now is out in Baen's eARC (electronic Advanced Reader Copy) edition.  I read the ...

Since I cut back on blogging, I've gone back to reading novels in a big way - 1-3 per week. I'm a relatively eclectic reader, thou...

Recently, Gerard Van der Leun posted a quote from Fred on Everything : Fools say, "If you are not doing anything wrong, you have not...

If we have to live in a Stephen King novel, why did it have to be The Stand ?  Seen on Facebook.

I posted about a week ago that Boo, my 19 year-old cat died .  Nineteen years is a long time to share with another creature, and loss is pai...

I’ve said before that I became an American by reading Heinlein books.  This is true at least to an extent, though I’d be at a loss to expl...

So, back when I posted about my semi-retirement from blogging , one of the reasons I gave was "I've got a stack of books that need ...