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El Coyote Gordo
For once, Charles Pierce was too nice to David Brooks today. Here’s Drew Magary (uses language)
 
 
 
El Coyote Gordo
21 June 2017 @ 09:19 am
Happy birthday, cheshyre and mount_oregano
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El Coyote Gordo
21 June 2017 @ 06:14 am
* Remembering forgotten children’s books

* Standard Ebooks: Project Gutenberg Improved

Thanx to Metafilter
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El Coyote Gordo
20 June 2017 @ 09:21 am
Happy birthday, elaine_brennan
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El Coyote Gordo
20 June 2017 @ 07:47 am
Maps  
It is a well-known psychological fact that people tend to think that those far away from them are close to each other. When I started sending a zine out around the world, I had to deal with a feeling that I had a number of readers on the same block (Australia), with a few over across town in New Zealand. Some people have political maps where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are neighbors.
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El Coyote Gordo
19 June 2017 @ 05:01 pm
SF lost a couple of minor figures I’m going to miss:

John Jones renamed himself John Dalmas, apparently after a Raymond Chandler character. In 1986 Fantasy Review, for which I briefly reviewed books, sent me his The Reality Matrix, which turned out to be the kind of PhilDickian weirdness the title promised, and I liked it. He followed it with an even stranger one called The Playmasters. A recovering Scientologist, he included a character who created a great religion and then messed it up, with a statement that every religion has one of those. He then went back to MilSF, and I lost track of him.

William F. Touponce did the Twayne book on Isaac Asimov and focused on Asimov’s talent for multiple conspiratorial explanations for story events, which is one of my favorite things about him.

Thanx to File 770
 
 
 
 
El Coyote Gordo
19 June 2017 @ 08:42 am
Happy Juneteenth, everybody!
 
 
El Coyote Gordo
18 June 2017 @ 09:36 am
Happy birthday, shweta_narayan
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El Coyote Gordo
18 June 2017 @ 07:42 am
Once again, people with autism do not lack empathy. And I love the phrase “people with neurotypicality.” People are not their mental conditions.

Thanx to [personal profile] andrewducker
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El Coyote Gordo
17 June 2017 @ 03:50 pm
Jim Wright asks the next question.
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El Coyote Gordo
17 June 2017 @ 08:58 am
Liking large bodies (somewhat explicit)
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El Coyote Gordo
17 June 2017 @ 08:49 am
50+ years ago, I fell in love with Isaac Asimov’s Foundation (the series in general, and particularly the novel of that name). It told of a world where those with the political virtues—strongest, meanest, pushiest, loudest, most numerous, richest, etc.—got their asses handed to them by the side with the best map of the situation. That is how the world should be.

And for all that time I have been arguing with many people’s favorite quote from it: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." It isn’t. Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent. The competent follow the Teachings of Don Vito: Always try to reason with them first.
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El Coyote Gordo
17 June 2017 @ 06:25 am
Posters of women in STEM

Thanx to Metafilter
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El Coyote Gordo
17 June 2017 @ 06:21 am
The Rude Pundit attempts to sympathize with Dolt45, almost succeeds. (Uses language)
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