Any political differences I might have with the Puppies, any feelings of dismay I might have about the racism and homophobia and sheer unpleasantness displayed by some of them, are secondary. What really infuriates me most is eighty years — eighty goddamned years — of SF writers and fans trying to persuade a skeptical and […]
A bunch of years ago I was informed about the existence of a human being whose name I have forgotten, a wannabe writer who I will call Bitter Bob. I know next to nothing about Bitter Bob. I understand that he never had success in his writing ambitions. I have no way of knowing whether […]
These two arguments, often made sentences apart by the same people, are mutually exclusive: 1) The election of President Obama means that racism in the US is effectively over and Black People have no basis for complaining about anything ever ever again, 2) It was Obama’s job on election to improve racial relations and at […]