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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2026 07:21 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: at October 27, 2026 07:29 PM
This does not count as official mephitic content, and therefore, we are at 40% for the week.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:31 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Boswell at October 27, 2026 07:31 PM (j10i6)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 27, 2026 07:32 PM (s3AOQ)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 27, 2026 07:32 PM (hxMfc)
sometimes I check.
Posted by: ace at October 27, 2026 06:24 PM (1wjle)
****
And sometimes he don't.
Posted by: clarence at October 27, 2026 07:32 PM (LOuD5)
Seems like a reference to some movie.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:29 PM (0sNs1)
Good cover by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes:
https://youtu.be/oIFq2zZeAgw
Posted by: Willy Brown at October 27, 2026 07:32 PM (9ZFZd)
https://tinyurl.com/maegenhall
https://tinyurl.com/sarapwwest
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 07:32 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2026 07:32 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:32 PM
"Ecstasy of Gold" > "Agony of Da Feet"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 27, 2026 07:33 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 27, 2026 07:33 PM (v2tTy)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 27, 2026 07:34 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2026 07:32 PM (RIvkX)
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El-Sayed has an ad out with a couple in a grocery store that can't buy bananas or eggs because all the money went to Israel. Damn Joos took away our bananas!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:34 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2026 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)
I almost fell over one in the dark when I was camping in Southern Oregon. It moved before I tripped so instead I just about jumped out of my skin.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 07:34 PM (rbvCR)
The American Chemical Society announced their 2027 awards. 52 were granted: 50 went to academics and 2 went to industrial chemists, who make up some 60% of the ACS membership. At the same time, diversity n' inclusion is rilly important.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 07:34 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 27, 2026 07:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 27, 2026 07:34 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2026 07:35 PM (+YuYu)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)
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That was the "Wide World of Sports" intro. The thrill of victory (which varied) and the agony of defeat (some Slav who slid off a ski jump).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Disband the county. Give it to each town that makes up the county. Start over and end two-thirds of all murders.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 27, 2026 07:36 PM (/+uur)
https://youtu.be/oIFq2zZeAgw
Posted by: Willy Brown at October 27, 2026 07:32 PM
* thumbs up *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:36 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 27, 2026 07:34 PM (88C+u)
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That's "Alfred Bester" to people of a certain age. Marvelous role. He was a great villain.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:36 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 27, 2026 07:37 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 07:34 PM
What are you doing to ameliorate this? If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:38 PM (0sNs1)
Newsom Touts California As The Only State Where You Can See A Homeless Man Defecating On A Beach And On A Mountain In The Same Day
Shit in 1 hand
and
Wish in the other
Which one fills up first?
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 27, 2026 07:38 PM (/+uur)
Can You Guess the Political Leanings of the 5% of US Counties Where 71% of the Murders Take Place?
__________
Including parishes?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 07:38 PM (eRlcH)
The Three Stooges deserve more attention than they receive in these troubled times.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 27, 2026 07:39 PM (VyBeY)
The Jews are raising prices on eggs
Yes we have no bananas
We have no bananas you can afford
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 27, 2026 07:39 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 07:34 PM (rbvCR)
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They're kind of cute, and just go about their business.
My big fear is the skunks in the neighborhood. I was taking a walk and absently rolled past what I took for a black squirrel and then realized my mistake as it turned and took a couple of skips to open up the distance.
The deer around here are so tame that a doe on the bike path tried to stare me down rather than run. Weird.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:40 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2026 07:40 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: at October 27, 2026 07:40 PM (MWfyi)
Wish it was but the imbeciles running the World Science Fiction Convention which has turned into a Soviet Peoples Court is busily trying to erase all the white male patriarchy that made science fiction great.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 07:40 PM (2GVsD)
What are you doing to ameliorate this? If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:38 PM (0sNs1)
___________
Been a member for 48 years and industrial chemists have always been told to sit at the little kids table.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)
Poor kitty is mostly blind, and has no teeth. Vet says otherwise she is pretty healthy.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 07:41 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 27, 2026 07:41 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 07:38 PM (eRlcH)
You could bomb Orleans Parish and Caddo Parish and end murder poverty and bad drivers in Louisiana overnight.
PS I was born in Natchitoches Parish and was just visiting relatives in Bossier Parish.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 27, 2026 07:42 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2026 07:42 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 27, 2026 07:41 PM (Cqx++)
I voted in 2024
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 27, 2026 07:43 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 27, 2026 07:43 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 27, 2026 07:43 PM (aJQbY)
I ran across a mama skunk and 3 or 4 kits while hiking in the woods on a shortcut too. I decided to walk the loooong way around that day
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 07:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 07:43 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 27, 2026 07:44 PM (kymiW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 07:44 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
Why, you. I oughta....
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 27, 2026 07:45 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 07:45 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 27, 2026 07:46 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 07:41 PM
At the next banquet, sprinkle some Nitrogen Triiodide around the "adults" tables. Then, amid all the "harumphing", take over the board. Power to the
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:47 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 27, 2026 07:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 27, 2026 07:47 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 27, 2026 07:44 PM (kymiW)
Cats are bastards, but most of the rest of them leave her alone besides doing the "bump" at times when they gather around to be fed. The young tom, Sejong, will hassle her a bit, but he has no status in the house since the big tom has the alpha position, and she is the only one he outranks.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 07:47 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2026 07:47 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 27, 2026 07:37 PM (l26NL)
I watched a 3 Stooges movie where they were spies during the Civil War and sang "Look Away Dixieland" in black face, but they changed the lyrics for New York City.
Hilarious!
Posted by: Zombie Moe Howard at October 27, 2026 07:47 PM (Ssbab)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 27, 2026 07:48 PM (Cqx++)
I ran across a mama skunk and 3 or 4 kits while hiking in the woods on a shortcut too. I decided to walk the loooong way around that day
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 07:43 PM (rbvCR)
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LOL, as soon as I saw the skunk I moved directly away and broke into a trot. It accepted I was not a threat and went on with whatever it was doing.
If hunting was legal in the subdivision, I could be taking deer with a pocket pistol. They are annoyingly tame.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:48 PM (ZOv7s)
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2 bananas for a dollar at 7/11. I put a few dollars in the "Help Israel Bomb Palestine" jar while I was there.
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2026 07:49 PM (TN0g+)
It did not end well for her. A lesson learned, I hope.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:49 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 27, 2026 07:48 PM (Cqx++)
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That was what made Bester so good - he always found a way out. Infuriatingly evil.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:50 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2026 07:50 PM (Fi81e)
Seeing the mental images of all the ways Garibaldi wanted to kill Bester.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 07:50 PM (2GVsD)
It did not end well for her. A lesson learned, I hope.
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Tomato soup bath?
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2026 07:51 PM (TN0g+)
Always been an Election Day voter.
I used to be until Covid days. Now I vote as early as possible. But in person - not by mail.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 27, 2026 07:51 PM (Cqx++)
I watched a 3 Stooges movie where they were spies during the Civil War and sang "Look Away Dixieland" in black face, but they changed the lyrics for New York City.
_________
Way down South in New York City,
The cotton grows on the trees so pretty.
On the trees? On the trees,
In the South,
South Brooklyn.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 07:51 PM (eRlcH)
Exactly what I thought the other day:
🐉 Steven Ranting
@MeltingInMarana
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5h
By the way…there is no need to put political flags in your yard. Just hang an American flag and everyone will know you are not a Democrat
Posted by: beckster at October 27, 2026 07:52 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2026 07:52 PM (Riz8t)
away back last century they busted a Cook County forest preserve supervisor who was doing exactly that, and taking quite a few, too; he had caused a personal smokehouse to be constructed on county land, with county materials and labor.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 27, 2026 07:52 PM (VyBeY)
2 bananas for a dollar at 7/11. I put a few dollars in the "Help Israel Bomb Palestine" jar while I was there.
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2026 07:49 PM (TN0g+)
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I mean, I'm just unpacking the way the left would treat a right-wing commercial that highlighted banana prices and blamed the Jews.
Was this supposed to bring Detroit back on side?
"Hakim! How do we win back the blacks?"
"Easy, Ahmed. Blame the Jews for high banana prices! Mention eggs for the white women."
"You are a genius, Hakim. We will make white people say it."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:53 PM (ZOv7s)
Harcourt Fenton Mudd - "Completely Unavoidable"
(Star Trek-The Original Series -Parody Music Video)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 07:53 PM (u82oZ)
sometimes I check.
Posted by: ace [in the last thread]
And sometimes he don't.
Posted by: clarence
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
It don't always be like that,
but sometimes it do.
Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2026 07:53 PM (VHUov)
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old habits die hard
Posted by: runner at October 27, 2026 07:53 PM (AKptf)
It did not end well for her. A lesson learned, I hope.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:49 PM (0sNs1)
They like Ritz crackers with peanut butter better.
The eat the slugs and bugs, don't dig like squirrels, and they repel trespassers at night.
A friend says the big male that lives at the bottom of his yard steals his cigar bands off his smoking chair on the porch for some reason
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 07:54 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2026 07:51 PM
Several wipe-downs with tomato juice (with rinses in-between) in the shower. It didn't seem to be as efficacious as I'd heard it would be.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:54 PM (0sNs1)
Here is plan. Academics and industrials fight death match, while government chemists overthrow regime. Is big win!
Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2026 07:54 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 27, 2026 07:54 PM (/+uur)
The cotton grows on the trees so pretty.
On the trees? On the trees,
In the South,
South Brooklyn.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 07:51 PM (eRlcH)
Hahaha...that's it! Curly even dressed as a Mammy with huge tits and danced around. Comedy gold!
Posted by: Zombie Moe Howard at October 27, 2026 07:55 PM (Ssbab)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 07:55 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 07:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2026 07:51 PM
Several wipe-downs with tomato juice (with rinses in-between) in the shower. It didn't seem to be as efficacious as I'd heard it would be.
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Maybe The Partridge Family just made up that remedy?
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2026 07:56 PM (TN0g+)
Spock, "a very small joke."
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 07:56 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 07:54 PM (0sNs1)
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I reported for duty at JFHQ one day and the officer I was supposed to be serving with reeked of skunk. His dog had been sprayed and he had tried to clean it off. He was not successful. He was ordered to go home and wash off.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 07:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Gerry Rafferty at October 27, 2026 07:57 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 27, 2026 07:57 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 07:58 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Penguin Pete, Revenge Tour. at October 27, 2026 07:58 PM (EdP2u)
tomato juice doesn't even touch skunk spray in my experience.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 27, 2026 07:58 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 27, 2026 07:58 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 27, 2026 07:54 PM (/+uur)
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They demand ten percent off of *everything*!
Posted by: Just the punchline at October 27, 2026 07:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 27, 2026 07:59 PM (8Uo7a)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 27, 2026 07:59 PM (8Uo7a)
Downside is everything smells like vinegar now...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 27, 2026 08:00 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2026 08:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 27, 2026 07:46 PM (VyBeY)
Same. But this year, I had reasons. Voted early.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 27, 2026 08:02 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 27, 2026 08:00 PM (l3cgK)
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Try a little extra virgin olive oil and some oregano.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 27, 2026 08:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Southern Comforter at October 27, 2026 08:03 PM (EdP2u)
I continue to be amazed at the Mind Control powers of Donald Trump. Li'l Marco is up there calling him the greatest president in the history of the country. lol fucking MIND CONTROL.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2026 08:04 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 27, 2026 08:00 PM (l3cgK)
Just have her wear a lei of strung cauliflower, celery, pearl onions, bell peppers and banana peppers, a slight dusting of pickling spices and a dab of olive oil and pretend to be Giardiniera
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 08:04 PM (rbvCR)
Wish it was but the imbeciles running the World Science Fiction Convention which has turned into a Soviet Peoples Court is busily trying to erase all the white male patriarchy that made science fiction great.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 07:40 PM (2GVsD)
We'll make minorities love science sexually. And if that doesn't work, at least we destroyed something the chuds loved.
Posted by: Commie fucks at October 27, 2026 08:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
Mine either. Wives tale created by Big Tomato. 🍅
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 27, 2026 08:08 PM (8B4gm)
Znidd Suddabit!
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:08 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 27, 2026 08:08 PM (VyBeY)
Sounds like you are getting a dish ready to be served.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: bluebell at October 27, 2026 08:10 PM (uyuYG)
https://youtu.be/92Wehlls_Y4
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 27, 2026 08:10 PM (jb8Ss)
The God Emperor of All Humanity Trump I also caused the gaming company BioWare to fail.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:11 PM (2GVsD)
Znidd Suddabit!
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:08 PM (2GVsD)
Sud-da-a-bit....sons of bitches?
Here's a deep dive back at you
We...are...vreends...Ouch!
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:12 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:13 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Gen. Carlos von Schlichten (ret.) at October 27, 2026 08:14 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2026 08:14 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2026 08:15 PM (ZdaMQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7tnMAbOC6c
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 08:16 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:16 PM (2GVsD)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2026 08:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Do you still have a place in your heart for Hildegarde Hernandez?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:17 PM (2GVsD)
Anna Puma, I'm thinking of how Trump belittles and defeats people, and the next thing you know they've joined his team and they're calling him the greatest! I've never seen it happen at these extremes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2026 08:17 PM (mmrXZ)
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain did The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly when they were in town on the Kansas State Univ. campus.
They showed wry humor and good music.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 08:17 PM (u82oZ)
Hey Piper, you nose-ringed cutie.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2026 08:18 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 08:18 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
I'm surprised they have enough participants left to hold WorldCon.
I'd have though everyone left would have died of old age or social diseases by now.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 27, 2026 08:18 PM (vJrRc)
Wish it was but the imbeciles running the World Science Fiction Convention which has turned into a Soviet Peoples Court is busily trying to erase all the white male patriarchy that made science fiction great.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 07:40 PM (2GVsD)
We'll make minorities love science sexually. And if that doesn't work, at least we destroyed something the chuds loved.
Posted by: Commie fucks at October 27, 2026 08:04 PM (zZu0s)
I like my androids barefoot, generating child processes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 27, 2026 08:18 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:19 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Gen. Carlos von Schlichten (ret.) at October 27, 2026 08:14 PM (VyBeY)
yes it is derived from 'sons of bitches' as said by a 4 arm 2 legged silicate lizard
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:20 PM (uhVAy)
They showed wry humor and good music.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 08:17 PM (u82oZ)
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Hi Salty! Did you get to see them? I bet that would be a fun concert. They look like they have a great time on stage.
Posted by: bluebell at October 27, 2026 08:20 PM (uyuYG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:20 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 08:21 PM (u82oZ)
this leaves about 11-13 seats in play.
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@LarryWildWorldofHistory
@LarryWild2028
·
8h
@RealSKeshel
who is going district by district through the decisive seats, has posted 2 excellent reports for Rs. Yesterday, he had Jay Feely holding the critical AZ1, today he has Marci Kaptur losing in a flip in OH7. By my running tally, this puts us at Rs around 212-213 safe, Ds 210-211.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:21 PM (E4rtv)
Good news. But let's not think we are winning. We are down by 6 in the last minute of play. Vote, vote, vote.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 08:24 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:24 PM (2GVsD)
Robert Silverberg, age 91, is still alive.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:20 PM (2GVsD)
My favorite of his is "Across a Billion Years" about an archeologic team digging up remnants of a star spanning race a billion years or so old.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:24 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2026 08:18 PM
IIRC, Piper didn't have a nose-ring at last year's TxMoMe. Is this something she picked up at this year's?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 08:24 PM (0sNs1)
>>>Puppy: I will go make some new friends
It was kind of the cat the way he patiently the error of his ways to the big goofus.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 27, 2026 08:24 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Anna Puma
H. Beam Piper knew his history better than a lot of history professors. His Future History is loaded with considering past events as projected into the future. Jerry Pournelle who actually met and talked with Piper before Piper's untimely demise had rights to do stories in Piper's TFH universe but quickly figured out along with John Carr that the sheer amount of historical research needed would simply be too much.
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, especially if you like firearms, is a great book to read if you have never read Piper before.
Frankly, I like Piper a lot more as an author than Isaac Asimov in the future history business. Piper's characters had a lot more life in them as well as humor than Asimov's.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 27, 2026 08:26 PM (wWuuh)
Posted by: MkY at October 27, 2026 08:26 PM (ik4bQ)
>>>Puppy: I will go make some new friends
It was kind of the cat the way he patiently the error of his ways to the big goofus.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 27, 2026 08:24 PM (syz1S)
Think it was AI since the double hold on the side of the head is very un-cat like. They tend to swat, or charge if they want to teach a lesson.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:26 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: MkY at October 27, 2026 08:26 PM (ik4bQ)
We're trying.
Posted by: Dems, Socialists, and Commies, BIRM at October 27, 2026 08:26 PM (l3cgK)
Falkenberg and his Rifles appear in Uller Uprising.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:27 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 08:24 PM
Which sportsball game are you referring to? If it's eurofag futbol or water polo, this isn't a good situation.
Or are you thinking of a DD prosecuting 6 UW contacts?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 08:28 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 27, 2026 08:29 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:25 PM (E4rtv)
Space Viking is another classic of his - a tale of revenge that morphs into nation building.
And Omnilingual as a kid spoke to me - why I went into science.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:30 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2026 08:17 PM (mmrXZ)
It is a combination of operant conditioning, negging, and actual leadership skills in giving tasks to the people competent to do them. Also I have been told, at third hand, that Trump is even more entertaining in private than public, and that goes a long way to sooth over ruffled feathers.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 08:30 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I had it figured at about a dozen competitive races in the House left simply by looking at where parties were still spending money on ads. Glad for external confirmation.
Too tired and old nowadays to do the computations of hard stats anymore as I've been there done that in the past.
But Trump is a political phenomenon comparable only the Asimov's Mule in derailing Globo Homo. The question for us is what to do when he is no longer president and we have to use these next two years to change the arc for the next decade.
Financial rectification of excessive government debt is coming for all the West and we come out least scathed if we have strong domestic productive industries going into the hurricane and that includes continuing energy independence.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:30 PM (E4rtv)
"It’s not surprising to see ratings at “60 Minutes” slump when CBS doesn’t air a strong football game before the start of the show. But the program’s performance on Sunday, which lacked exactly that kind of NFL lead-in, is alarming nonetheless.
The fifth episode of this season’s cycle of the venerable CBS newsmagazine drew only 5.64 million viewers, one of the smallest audiences for the program in years, according to data from Nielsen. The show captured a mere 558,000 among viewers between 25 and 54, the demographic coveted most by advertisers in news programming."
Meet the Press too had 80% plus of their audience over age 54. Let me check about one more thing.
Chat says if people fall asleep, leave the room or whatever, they are still counted. I leave the tv on all the time for noise so these crappy news ratings are even worse. Sweet.
Snowflake is inside sleeping on a pillow here in the computer room. Ralphy is resting too. I carried him inside, he landed weird, I gave him and extra pain pill. Dude's fine now.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 27, 2026 08:31 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: MkY at October 27, 2026 08:26 PM
Where have you gone, CBD?
A cornucopia of commenters turn their lonely eyes to you.
Woo woo woo.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 08:31 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:32 PM (2GVsD)
Clint Eastwood is 96...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 27, 2026 08:32 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 27, 2026 08:32 PM (ndZc7)
Puff and Ruth are going to the vet tomorrow for their shots so we did some grooming and nails. Ruth, who is more placid, wailed and struggled through her nail trimming. Puff, who is a deranged maniac, stood calmly through the process.
The difference? Ruth spent her youth at another house and never got trained in having her nails done. Puff, on the other hand, has spent her life here and knows Mommy won't put up with any shit.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 08:32 PM (eRlcH)
And Omnilingual as a kid spoke to me - why I went into science.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Piper wrote a strong female character in Omnilingual where most male sci fi writers, including Heinlein, struggled. Unfortunately, he didn't repeat that in future TFH books or short stories except his female character in most of the entertaining Paratime stories including Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:33 PM (E4rtv)
And Omnilingual as a kid spoke to me - why I went into science.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:30 PM (uhVAy)
The hard to find story was Null ABC.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 08:33 PM (rbvCR)
Falkenberg and his Rifles appear in Uller Uprising.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:27 PM (2GVsD)
Wonder if Jerry lifted the name from there. I'm not sure he was actively writing before Piper died.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:33 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:30 PM
Tanned. Rested. Ready!
Posted by: John T. and the GOPe at October 27, 2026 08:34 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 08:33 PM (rbvCR)
There's a big kindle collection that has that for pretty cheap out there.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:34 PM (uhVAy)
15% drop in stocks
10% drop in currency
Coming to a North American Republic near you.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 27, 2026 08:35 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:35 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Space Viking was what Pournelle and Carr thought was the most dense distillation of history employed in a short story that meant an incredible act to follow. Carr said as much as much of the burden on the research to write a successor to that story fell to him.
Piper's "The Edge of a Knife" short story actually has a character predicting many of the future events that Piper had sketched out for his TFH series as a professor who gets declared insane due to him unwittingly revealing insights to the future in his class.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:36 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 08:37 PM (u82oZ)
15% drop in stocks
10% drop in currency
Coming to a North American Republic near you.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 27, 2026 08:35 PM (/+uur)
I hope President Trump uses tariffs to destroy the economy. I'm pretty sure people there don't have as much to lose as people in the west and could express....dismay...without much prodding.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 27, 2026 08:37 PM (Sco7b)
What is more nebulous is an officer in the Uller Charterd Company's military named Retief. Did Keith Laumer lift that name from Uller Uprising?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: davidt at October 27, 2026 08:38 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at October 27, 2026 08:38 PM (FGA9/)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:39 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: scampydog at October 27, 2026 08:39 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Except Piper, due to John Campbell encouraging him to move the story to the Paratime universe, was indicating humans on Freya (When in the Course version) which is related to a second failed exploration party sent to the stars from dying Mars instead of the first one sent to Earth.
Cosmic Computer book also had a short story predecessor where Conn Maxwell (Graveyard of Dreams) had a different ending.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:39 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 27, 2026 08:40 PM (ndZc7)
==
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:39 PM (uhVAy)
"What one wouldn't think of, the other one would."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 27, 2026 08:40 PM (jb8Ss)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:40 PM (2GVsD)
Or I’m full of shit and we are well and truly fucked.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 27, 2026 08:41 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:38 PM (2GVsD)
That one has a better chance to be Piper referring to Laumer. His Retief stories started in the early 60s.
There is a set of stories where Robert Bloch and H P Lovecraft, who corresponded some introduced each other into a Lovecrafty story and killed each other.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:42 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 27, 2026 08:42 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:33 PM (uhVAy)
He was, and had talks with Piper. Pournelle was going to write on in the Sword Worlds universe but he had other things he wanted to do instead.
Pournelle had a far different voice than Piper, and much harsher view of humanity. The Mote in God's Eye universe was closer, but it was much more rigid.
Michael Kurland wrote some Piper pastiches based in part on some fragmentary plotting notes, but it was more of an extension of the notes more than a polished story. Kurland did have a better prose style than Pournelle though.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 08:43 PM (rbvCR)
Uller Uprising was originally published in the Twayne hardcover book The Petrified Planet in 1952.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:43 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Possibly. Laumer's Retief series is hilarious but there is an interesting novella early on (Diplomat at Arms) that is Retief at the end of his career instead of the beginning and it is much less comedic. Magnan comes off much worse in this one as a despicably evil bureaucrat. Probably Laumer knew this and moved his future Retief stories to be much lighter in tone and substance.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:43 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Oldcat
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I forgot that character. She ended up being a spy for the Federation to find out company misdeeds.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:45 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Oldcat
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I forgot that character. She ended up being a spy for the Federation to find out company misdeeds.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:45 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:46 PM (2GVsD)
I went to a Trump rally in 2018, and wrote it up for another blog.
LU Nation reports: What one reader saw at the Trump rally in Topeka, Kansas
https://tinyurl.com/3v2r488a
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 08:46 PM (u82oZ)
15% drop in stocks
10% drop in currency
Coming to a North American Republic near you.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 27, 2026 08:35 PM (/+uur)
The right, in every country and especially the US, had better be prepared to stop the Left’s cheating. What happened in Brazil is what happened here in 2020. We stopped it here in 2024. Can we do it again this year?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 27, 2026 08:46 PM (tGVts)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:43 PM (E4rtv)
Some of the other stories are in-between and Magnan wobbles between being the out of touch authority figure to virtually Retief's sidekick. But there's often an Admiral Grossblunder to take the flak of a field dude to the suits back at the home office.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:48 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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I have or had Fuzzybones but may have donated it. Still have most of the Aces including some originals of Pipers that I can no longer read. Ace Publishing's treatment of its writers was atrocious in both delaying payment as long as it could as well as other financial shenanigans. Not just Piper, but many others of that era.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:49 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:50 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Pretty strong sense that Laumer had particular superiors in mind from his stint as a diplomat when writing those characters.
Rubio is like a fresh breeze into the idiocy of our State Department apparatchiks for the last 40-50 years or so.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:50 PM (E4rtv)
Grumbles.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 27, 2026 08:51 PM (iIyc0)
Oh wait, never mind. Thinking of when Uller Uprising was published. Because I do have an original 1962 paperback of Little Fuzzy that never leaves its plastic jacket because the whole book cover has parted from the book.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:51 PM (2GVsD)
It depends on us, and the reaction depends on Trump. Realistically, Congress is broken and has not helped America for decades. Trump has a good Cabinet, but the lower ranks are still filled with Quislings. Judges *Spit*.
The Reps can't even pass the SAVE Act. So it is Trump with Executive Actions, and maybe calling the People to help America. I do believe the Military as a whole will stop things if the Left gets out of hand. It would be safer to let them do it than citizens (who have deep grudges and a lot of firepower).
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 08:53 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:49 PM (E4rtv)
if you search on Amazon there are authors extending Space Viking and the Fuzzy Novels for kindle I believe. I haven't read any except for those Ace ones which were not great.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:53 PM (uhVAy)
California is doomed.
Matt Finn
@MattFinnFNC
NEW: LA County says a sample of the Trump admin's 200 names of suspected non-citizen voters showed that 38.9% attested to being born in the US. But in a new sworn statement under penalty of perjury, a DHS official says its investigation shows NONE of LA County's 200 names were born in the US.
If you own the process, you own the results. If you own the results, you own the process. I don't see any way out of this.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2026 08:54 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
You would be right. My mistake.
Ace bought the rights for all of H. Beam Piper's works for $1000 bucks after Piper committed suicide in 1964. I am guessing from his former wife as I am unaware of any other living relatives at the time. Putnam appears to be his publisher for his TFH novels and Knopf for Murder in the Gunroom.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:55 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma
What? I thought she just died this year! Soup is still mourning!
Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2026 08:56 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:57 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:53 PM (uhVAy)
There are also two books extending Lord Kalvan, which are both technically ignorant and poorly written, so no delight there.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 08:57 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Oldcat
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I read one or two (Great King's War comes to mind and a few others on Kindle for cheap) but frankly they sucked. And they drafted grifter Scalzi to do a hatchet job on the Fuzzy stories.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 08:57 PM (E4rtv)
By the time Ace was publishing Piper, Piper had been dead for a couple decades I think.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:50 PM (2GVsD)
______
Piper is dead? Again??
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 08:58 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 08:58 PM
Sepsis from the new piercing?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2026 08:59 PM (0sNs1)
There are also two books extending Lord Kalvan, which are both technically ignorant and poorly written, so no delight there.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 08:57 PM (rbvCR)
_________
Lord Kelvin >>>> Lord Kalvan
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 08:59 PM (eRlcH)
IIRC, Piper didn't have a nose-ring at last year's TxMoMe. Is this something she picked up at this year's?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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I could have sworn it was Piper who said she has one of those little nostril-rings. Not a septum ring mind you.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2026 08:59 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: LASue at October 27, 2026 08:59 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2026 09:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 27, 2026 09:00 PM (yEz+x)
At every voting location, a member of the Triplanetary Service, who knows every registered voter for that site, provides for a free and untainted election.
No mail in ballots or early voting. Science Fiction for sure.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:00 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: LASue at October 27, 2026 08:59 PM (lCppi)
Counter: Brazil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2026 09:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 08:53 PM (uhVAy)
Actually I did buy "Great Kings War" which is a Lord Kalvan sequel but seems to be drifting away from the first book's impression of the impact of the fireseed secret and the lack of organization of his opponents. Suddenly there are Styphon loyalists all over moving armies all over the chessboard. Otherwise its OK.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 09:01 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:01 PM (2GVsD)
Grumbles.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
I have that one along with the rest of his novels (not including the short stories I think). Grim story line compared with others as Dominic Flandry can see the human empire failing but fights his best to hold off the fall.
You might enjoy the Sten Chronicles by Chris Bunch and Allen Cole which are similar in tone.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:02 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 08:57 PM (2GVsD)
What did he smash Jack and his lawyer friend into one person?
Saw them, was not tempted to get them.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 09:03 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 27, 2026 09:03 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 09:04 PM (rbvCR)
Now that I'm older, Scalzi's Old Man's War is sorta appealing, but the sequels were ... meh.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:04 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Welp, Fed government did its own live role play version with Covid.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:05 PM (E4rtv)
I skimmed a preview and was horrified. Scalzi has Jack Holloway letting his dog set off demolitions to get at sunstones.
Plus Scalzi bloated the story to twice Piper's original book.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:05 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Try Joe Haldeman's Forever War as a better book that Scalzi cribbed some key ideas from.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:06 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:06 PM (u82oZ)
Plus Scalzi bloated the story to twice Piper's original book.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Thanks for confirming my decision to never read it.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:07 PM (E4rtv)
Two anime ran with the idea, Gunbuster and Voices of a Distant Star.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:07 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:08 PM (u82oZ)
Someone tried to write a sequel to Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:01 PM (2GVsD)
Andromeda II: Promotion to Captain
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 09:08 PM (rbvCR)
Plus Scalzi bloated the story to twice Piper's original book.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:05 PM (2GVsD)
Why would you change the tech level? Jack uses his 'bobcat' analog on contragrav, keeps the Fuzzies well away from the blast mine.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2026 09:08 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: eleven at October 27, 2026 09:08 PM (aTgV0)
The story stands on its own. It doesn't need a prequel, renaming the planet ("Lagash" was great, "Kalgash" sounds like an Atari game title), or a followup on how they all rebuild.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 27, 2026 09:09 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: eleven at October 27, 2026 09:11 PM (aTgV0)
Posted by: eleven at October 27, 2026 09:08 PM (aTgV0)
Youtube just follows where your mind goes
Posted by: 88C+u at October 27, 2026 09:11 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 27, 2026 09:12 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: eleven at October 27, 2026 09:12 PM (aTgV0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:13 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Probably because too many people in the sci fi community at the time promoted the ridiculous idea that Heinlein was a fascist due to Starship Troopers.
Like that scrunt that did the movie of it. Heinlein was ardently anti communist which by the sixties put him well out of the mainstream of sci fi writers at the time.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:13 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: eleven at October 27, 2026 09:14 PM (aTgV0)
I hold a lot of Silverberg's main books, but I was not hooked like I am on Matthew Hughes Archonate universe.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:14 PM (u82oZ)
The story stands on its own. It doesn't need a prequel, renaming the planet ("Lagash" was great, "Kalgash" sounds like an Atari game title), or a followup on how they all rebuild.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 27, 2026 09:09 PM (88C+u)
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Science Fiction is better suited to short stories, anyway, in general.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 27, 2026 09:15 PM (ZN52o)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Because Scalzi is someone who got where he was by copying rather than originality. IRRC, he assiduously kissed ass at his publisher Tor with his public politics which got him opportunities denied to others that were far better writers.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:15 PM (E4rtv)
What do we want?
Time Travel.
When do we want it?
That's Irrelevant.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Remember: last Thursday is "bring your time machine to work" day.
Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2026 09:16 PM (VHUov)
Dude ranges between hauntingly creepy and garbage.
Posted by: eleven at October 27, 2026 09:16 PM (aTgV0)
Got to the top and found a little sign, informing me that the early voting center had been moved to the new county services building, 10 blocks away.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 27, 2026 09:17 PM (cEHXL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:17 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Auspex at October 27, 2026 09:18 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Heh.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:13 PM (E4rtv)
Actually no. We have a proxy: a list of pro and anti Vietnam War SF signatures 1968. It was more anti, as the petition-floater expected...
...but pro put in a strong showing. Most names are what one might expect but there are surprises.
positronchicago.com/2016/03/sff-authors-vietnam-war.html
MZB was the largest surprise, for me anyway. On the other side maybe Bradbury and Leiber.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 27, 2026 09:19 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:20 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: eleven
Forever War is more humorous in a grim sort of way. Joe Haldeman was an actual Vietnam Vet in wounded in combat. Closest Scalzi ever came to combat was political slap fighting over the internet.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:21 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 09:21 PM (rbvCR)
Got that too. I have all the early Brin. Startide Rising and The Uplift War are great, as are a number of his early short stories. Neo-chimp Fiben Bolger is a great character.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:21 PM (u82oZ)
In a credibility battle Between LA county voting integrity monitors and just about anyone else, Ill go with anyone else.
Posted by: LASue
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Re the ballot sequestration, District Judge Carter announced that he will issue his ruling tomorrow.
LA Times said he appeared skeptical of DOJ's case.
DOJ will likely appeal an unfavorable decision to the Ninth Circuit.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2026 09:21 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:22 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:23 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:23 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:23 PM (u82oZ)
"4".
Posted by: 88C+u, checkmates at October 27, 2026 09:24 PM (88C+u)
Yes. Not as good as the next two in the 6 eventual Uplift War books. I own, but shun, the last 3 in the series.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:24 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:26 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:02 PM (E4rtv)"
Appreciate the recommendation, I may have to give them a whirl.
On the upside, I did some checking around and the title !issing in my Anderson collection is much more available than it was last time I looked. Great news!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 27, 2026 09:26 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 27, 2026 09:28 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 27, 2026 09:29 PM (iIyc0)
...but pro put in a strong showing. Most names are what one might expect but there are surprises.
positronchicago.com/2016/03/sff-authors-vietnam-war.html
MZB was the largest surprise, for me anyway. On the other side maybe Bradbury and Leiber.
Posted by: 88C+u
Of big sci fi classic names that I recognize, about 2:1 against Vietnam by my figures. Alex Panshin writing about this time to 'good reviews' wrote Heinlein in Dimension which was a hatchet job on the man and his work. Published in 1968 ironically.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:29 PM (E4rtv)
Keepiru, "I never said who I would feed you to." Got both versions of this book and really can't tell the difference.
Uplift War is all about guerilla warfare, literally with Tymbrini tricks.
Second trilogy I hardly remember anything from them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:29 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:26 PM (u82oZ)
Real life, as they say, is dumber than fiction.
eMudhra used "4" (and other 8-bit numerals) to sign their private keys in published internet and executable certificates.
Posted by: 88C+u, checkmates at October 27, 2026 09:30 PM (88C+u)
The rut is on.
Posted by: Auspex
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Seeing more movement here the past few days. A few trees beat up too.
Posted by: scampydog at October 27, 2026 09:31 PM (41CYW)
On the upside, I did some checking around and the title !issing in my Anderson collection is much more available than it was last time I looked. Great news!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
Bunch and Cole do a comedic version of the A Team in sci fi in their Star Risk Inc. series. Last book in that series had Bunch's part finished by a family friend as he died during the writing of it.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:31 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:32 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 27, 2026 09:32 PM (eRlcH)
Must be a new record...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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You jinxed it. I was waiting to see if the whole thread would be centered.
Posted by: clarence at October 27, 2026 09:33 PM (LOuD5)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 27, 2026 09:34 PM (SAKKj)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 27, 2026 09:34 PM (SAKKj)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I've read the Uplift War but not Startide Rising for some reason that I forget now. Skimmed it in Waldens or Bretanos back in the day and put it back I guess.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:34 PM (E4rtv)
Startide Rising is when a spaceship crewed by neo-dolphins make a big discovery that shakes the 5 Galaxies.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:34 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 27, 2026 09:35 PM (SAKKj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 27, 2026 09:35 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Some webcomic, from memory, so approximate:
Devil: let me create something
God: no
Devil: c'mon, just one thing
God: fine, one thing
* Devil, standing triumphantly in a bike lane *
Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2026 09:36 PM (VHUov)
He's no longer writing fiction (91 -- he doesn't need to), and I saw part of an interview at some convention from early this year; he looked pretty frail. 91 will do that to you. But for my money he bought his way into Writers' Heaven with Dying Inside and The Book of Skulls. YMMV.
There's a Joe Haldeman that never got the press that The Forever War did; it's a mainstream novel called 1968 and it's a terrific piece of work. Again YMMV.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 27, 2026 09:36 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 27, 2026 09:37 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 27, 2026 09:37 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2026 09:37 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2026 09:38 PM (2GVsD)
Do you ever hack together multiple kits to make original designs?
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 09:39 PM (rbvCR)
Probably would have got canceled for it in 2020.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 27, 2026 09:39 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: eleven at October 27, 2026 09:40 PM (aTgV0)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 27, 2026 09:40 PM (8Uo7a)
"Bunch and Cole began writing for television in the late 1970s, eventually selling more than 150 scripts together over the course of their partnership. Working under executive producer Glen A. Larson, the pair contributed two episodes to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1980) and co-wrote the pilot of The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo with Larson. Their other television credits included The Incredible Hulk, Quincy, M.E., Magnum, P.I., B.J. and the Bear, The Rockford Files, Hunter, The A-Team, The Smurfs, and Walker, Texas Ranger. They wrote the A-Team episode "Pure-Dee Poison" (1984) and served as story editors on the supernatural drama Werewolf.
Bunch and Cole, who had not previously worked on Battlestar Galactica, were hired as two of three story editors on its sequel series, Galactica 1980.[ According to the pair, they had not sought the position; they said a Universal Television executive threatened to bar them from future work at the studio if they declined the assignment."
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:42 PM (E4rtv)
eMudhra used "4" (and other 8-bit numerals) to sign their private keys in published internet and executable certificates.
Posted by: 88C+u
I recall a story a few years ago, about white hats examining a hacked password file, which showed lots of users with proper, random, every-key-on-the-keyboard passwords.
Then they noticed a lot of users with the same random, every-key-on-the-keyboard password.
Which turned out to be the 8-bit representation of 密码 ..... Chinese for "password."
Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2026 09:42 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: eleven at October 27, 2026 09:42 PM (aTgV0)
Skeletons and ghosts and monsters are fine.
It’s the devil stuff I do not like.
Too close to
Real.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 27, 2026 09:44 PM (yEz+x)
The rut is on.
Posted by: Auspex
Yep. The frost is on the pumpkin!
Posted by: JQ at October 27, 2026 09:47 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:42 PM (E4rtv)"
Damn, talk about having to have to smoke a turd.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 27, 2026 09:47 PM (iIyc0)
Skeletons and ghosts and monsters are fine.
It’s the devil stuff I do not like.
Too close to
Real.
Posted by: nurse ratched
One of the funnier gags on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was how all the "real" monsters and demons stayed home on Halloween.
Posted by: mikeski at October 27, 2026 09:48 PM (VHUov)
Maybe I'm disremembering, but I don't recall so many gruesome decorations when I was a kid. But then I don't like most horror films either .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
The only decorations I remember from childhood are jack o'lantern punkins on the porch.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 27, 2026 09:48 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2026 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)
Out west here, I have seen them many times. Saw a skunk a few minutes ago, while in the car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2026 09:48 PM (hg8Lt)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Seeing the Daily Telegraph has Netanyahu's coalition at 62 which is more than needed to form a government.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:49 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
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Could have been worse, the assignment might have been the Star Wars Christmas Special.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:50 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 27, 2026 09:52 PM (q3u5l)
The house going out of town really looks like a bunch of demons on spikes on their wall. I think I will just go internet silent on Halloween. We don't have people come anyway. They go to the developments if they go at all and didn't already go to the Trunk of Treat. The man across the way is in some kind of construction work put up Lighting elaborate game of skeletons playing football. It is very clever and took a lot of time
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 27, 2026 09:52 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at October 27, 2026 09:52 PM (gHSfI)
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2026 09:54 PM (E4rtv)
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I first read his short story The Forever War and I loved it. Later he expanded it to a novel and I didn't like the novel as well.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 27, 2026 09:54 PM (ndZc7)
Some days a good whiff of skunk in the air is enough to make me nostalgic (for a few minutes anyway) for apartment living back in Chicago.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 27, 2026 09:54 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Monica at October 27, 2026 09:55 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Case at October 27, 2026 09:56 PM (Dd7BU)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
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Posted by: Monica
That’s some funny shit right there.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 27, 2026 09:57 PM (yEz+x)
I heard recently that Powers was inspired by or knew Philip K Dick, and on reflection his early stories would confirm that.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2026 09:57 PM (rbvCR)
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