A Review Posted

My review of Joe Haldeman's new novel Marsbound is up at Sci Fi.com's Science Fiction Weekly site, here.

Cars

Sean-Paul Kelley is reading my mind.

Favorite Fairy Tales

Frank Rich on women scorned and what seems to be a favored media myth, namely angry Hillary Clinton supporters flocking to "maverick" John McCain.

Physicists in Congress

There are three of them, according to this piece in the New York Times, and it probably wouldn't hurt if a few more were elected.

"The Stupidity of Dignity"

Damien Broderick alerted me to this essay by Steven Pinker, "The Stupidity of Dignity," which is about bioethics, the increasing influence conservative religious forces are having on medical developments in the U.S., and why noted bioethicist and buffoon Leon Kass thinks it's beneath anyone's dignity to eat an ice cream cone in public. Pinker sounds the alarm here.