Friday Funnies

For your comic-y pleasure.

Again, Why I’m Angry

Benazir Bhutto assassinated

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in the wake of a suicide bombing that killed at least 14 of her supporters, doctors, a spokesman for her party and other officials said.
Bhutto suffered bullet wounds in the aftermath of the bomb attack, TV networks were reporting.
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Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General [...]

Fantasy Booklist

The third and final part of the Fantasy Literature Roundtable is up today at Fantasy magazine. (Read parts One and Two as well.) In this section the panelists recommended several excellent fantasy books by and about People of Color. I made a list of the books mentioned favorably in all three parts [...]

Happy Holidays

Oh look at me being politically correct! And warring on Christmas!
Just a quick note to say Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Go Kwanzaa, Up With Solstice, and other festival greetings to my readers. I hope you’re all safe, loved, and happy this season.

Buy Some Stuff in the Meantime

The holidays are a crazy busy time for me because I work for a fashion magazine and, of course, we’re spending all of our time trying to get people to buy things. It’s the kind of work that makes me hate the holidays. It also accounts for my light posting, for which I [...]

On the passing of Ike Turner

Ike Turner is gone. Predictably, people can’t stop talking about That Movie and about Tina. One thing I keep hearing is that, though Ike was a great musician and pioneer, all people can talk about is his abusive nature and drug habit. What a shame that is, these voices say.
I am about [...]

Catherynne Valente : Many Voices

A little over a year ago I met a writer named Catherynne Valente at an SF con. Since then I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know one of the most amazing people on the planet and acquainting myself with her fabulous fiction. My favorite of her books (so far) is The Orphan’s [...]

Those who forget the lessons of history

A meditation on what governments get up to during war time.
Most American adults are aware that, back during World War 2, our government rounded up Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans and put them in internment camps.  But were you aware of who the government chose to round up during the first Great War?  I wasn’t until [...]