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Star Wars truth

I was initially going to mention in passing another reason I gotta like John Scalzi but it’s just too good to be thrown in with other items.

I have always said Star Wars was merely a conglomeration of themes, ideas and even characters “borrowed” from great SF, westerns and almost anything else you can mention. […]

That darn media

If you occasionally glance at the web site run by Amendment E’s California “publicist,” you’ll see the disjointed stream of consciousness rantings and ravings are directed more and more at the media. Could it have anything to do with the fact condemnation of Amendment E keeps coming in from around the nation? Here’s a couple […]

On the Nobel Prize winner

It is by pure happenstance that within the month I read something by Orhan Pamuk, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel Prize committee lauded the Turkish writer as one “who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing […]

Awards marginalia

Linda Grant’s The People on the Street won this years Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. The book tells the story of Grant, a non-religious Diaspora Jew, traveling to and in Israel in 2003. (Via The Millions.) Kiran Desai won Britain’s most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, for her The Inheritance […]

A worthy political item

Although he and I come from wholly different ends of the political spectrum, I am happy to call Joel Rosenthal, former state GOP chairman, a friend of mine. Why are we friends? While we disagree, there is a mutual respect that stems from being honest with each other about what we think and where we […]