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.

What He Said

Every time I think that Keith Olbermann can't possibly be more eloquent in speaking truth to power, he surpasses my expectations. A transcript and video of his latest righteous rant can be found here.

A Reissue, and a New Novel

My 1983 novel Earthseed will be out in January 2007 from Tor Books, to be followed by a sequel, Farseed. I'm writing the third volume, Seedship, now.

Upcoming Appearances

A reminder: I'll be at Albacon in Albany, New York on Saturday, October 7 and at Astronomicon in Rochester, New York on November 10-12.