The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Jim Kosmicki:

I'm here in the Great Plains, where people will vote Republican against their own best interests. I also know that to most of my fellow citizens, health care reform is code for "give all the free healthcare that you can to illegal immigrants." They do not see it as an issue to help them, they see it as a way to support illegals. Most of these people are working class and near-poverty, but they think that McCain is talking about THEM when he promises to help the middle-class. Because of Obama, when people say that a key element of this election is race, they keep thinking of Black & White - believe me people, the real racial tension around here is with the Hispanic population. Anyone who looks like they'll play tough with the illegals is going to get lots and lots of votes just for that.

my favorite SF glass idea was, i think, from a Gene Wolfe book where we are told that the sand is composed of the tiny bits and pieces of what was once the glass in windows and containers. it did a great job of showing how far in the future this civilization was. I've never forgotten that description, even if I have forgotten exactly where it's from.

I just got the latest Anita Blake novel from the library, and when I got 200 pages in I realized -- there's been one chapter about the vampire hunter stuff, and 190+ pages of weird soft-core porn.

I put the book down and instantly felt better. I went back to one of the early books and found it to be just as enjoyable as I remembered, so I'm not burned out on her writing or the character -- I just don't like where she has gone as a writer. I'm clearly in the minority as she keeps selling better and better, but I'm done reading the new ones.

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