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The Long View 2004-09-05: My Enthusiasms Prosper

John's enthusiasm for alternative history is arguably going better than spelling reform. The kind of perfectly pleasant people who have no interest in religion John mentions near the end make me thing of Kipling, who described himself as a Christian God-fearing atheist. My Enthusiasms Prosper Lingva Prismo is

Linkfest 2017-02-24

Undocumented Irrigation Damn. Steve Sailer went and wrote something about SlateStarCodex's Cost Disease post that covers pretty much everything I wanted to write. The Meaning of Milo Ross Douthat has a pertinent reflection on how Milo fits into post-religious social conservatism. Ross also predicts Milo will make a

Ice, Iron, and Gold Book Review

Ice, Iron, and Gold by S. M. Stirling Nightshade Books, 2007 ISBN: 9781597801157 $6.70; 256 pages Stirling has written some of my favorite books. He co-authored The Prince with Jerry Pournelle, and also wrote some short fiction in the War World series. I tried to read the Draka series,

The Long View 2004-09-03: Some Comments on the Republican Convention

You can see the first stirrings of what led the Republicans to be blindsided by Trump in this post on the 2004 Republican convention. Even John J. Reilly, staunch Republican, thought the party politics in 2004 were deeply stupid. Some Comments on the Republican Convention Do we have any real

The Long View 2004-09-01: The Real War, Billy Jack, Cold Fusion

John prediction record on this post is almost zero. The only thing in here I can find that didn't get disproved by subsequent events is the statement that the Islamic terror attacks on the US and European nations was another theatre of an Arabian civil war. The Real

The Red King Book Review

The Red King by Nick Cole Amazon Digital 2005 $0.00; 285 pages ASIN B019S9WEHA I don't usually read ebooks. I have an irrational love of physical books, with their scent of slowly oxidizing paper. I find that I will do almost anything to avoid reading ebooks. Thus

Linkfest 2017-02-17

A Big Little Idea Called Legibility A fine analysis of how utopian ideals fail. John Horton Slaughter John Horton Slaughter, Lawman Last August, I read It Happened in Arizona, a series of short chapters on Arizona history. After reading that book, I realized that a lot of early settlers in