Astronomicon 10

I'll be at Astronomicon this weekend.

Good Night

The new Speaker of the House. And about time, too.

Polyphony 6

Polyphony 6, with my story "The Drowned Father," is out and can be ordered here.

On the Weekend Before...

...the midterm elections, DK, at Josh Marshall's site, has some thoughts.

Voicing Resentments

Lanca Mannion has some thoughts about El Rushbo:

People like Limbaugh don't think. Well, most people don't think. They don't put together thoughts. They have feelings that they attach words to without giving much care to what those words are and how accurately they describe the feeling.

Some people say the same words over and over even as the feelings they want the words to describe change. Other people just keep changing the words, usually because they don't remember them from one day to the next. The words were just sounds they gave to the feelings.

That's why it's next to impossible to cause people like Limbaugh to feel ashamed of what they said. You can't hold them to their words. Repeat their words back to them and they don't recognize them. Their own words on paper or said by someone else or even said by themselves on tape or on video aren't attached to the feeling that was behind the words when they said them.

Read it all.