Super Doomed Planet

Ever hear of the book Futility, by Morgan Robertson? It was about an indestructible, lifeboat-deficient ocean liner that hit an iceberg and sank. Fourteen years after Futility was published, the Titanic went down. On a similar note, as the Bush Administration draws to a close it seems a good time to observe that E. C. [...]

You know what’s interesting about Shadowmind? It turns out I’d never read it before. I skipped it when it came out due to a limited teenage book-buying budget and mediocre reviews. Much later I decided I wanted an obsessive-compulsively complete New Adventures collection, picked up a copy at a used bookstore… and immediately forgot about [...]

You learn something new every day. Today I learned that the Democrats’ 1852 campaign slogan was “We Polked you in 1844; we shall Pierce you in 1852!” If these guys had written the ads last year, the 2008 campaign would have been much more fun.