Lately, I've been thinking a lot about an even more fundamental building block of writing, the words themselves. My musings were kicked ...

Unemployment among teenagers is sitting close to 24%. It's easy to shrug this off, since most teens live with their families and their l...

Roughly a decade ago, I stopped celebrating religious holidays like Easter and Christmas. It was really difficult to reconcile the celebrati...

Review The Exploration of Dangerous Places by Jonah Knight At Capclave a few weeks ago, I attended a late night ghost story gathering. A few...

I've said before that I'm essentially a nihilist on the question of whether life has any greater meaning. I reject that there is any...

Last Tuesday, I did something extremely unusual for me: I voted republican for my US congressman. Not that it did much good in my district; ...

This week it was announced that there will be no cost of living increase for social security recipients since inflation is essentially flat....

With the mid-term elections less than a month away, I'm starting to feel a building sense of doom. Our country is facing genuine problem...

Joseph Mallozzi has used his blog to spotlight the Masked anthology during September. He passed along a bunch of reader questions to the var...

So, there's apparently some preacher somewhere in the South who plans to have a Koran burning ceremony on September 11. (I could google ...

Last year, I did a series of posts called Ten Reasons to Believe in God . I dealt with the most frequent arguments I've heard for the ex...

For a couple of weeks, conservatives have been in outrage mode about plans for a Muslim mosque to be built in New York only a few blocks fro...

My thoughts on turning books into movies can be found at fellow fantasy writer Andy Remic's blog, where I've written a post called ...

I'm down at the beach this week, making a feeble attempt at relaxing. As always happens when I have time off from my day job I have mass...

Few issues unite American's more than the opposition to gay marriage. Even among Democrats, you normally will find few politicians willi...

I think it's a relatively undisputed premise that Americans are falling behind in scientific literacy. Most objective measures of how ou...

I just arrived back in Hillsborough from ConCarolinas. I'll write more about the con on my other blog when I have the time, but right no...

I was recently in a discussion with folks who expressed skepticism that a libertarian could ever be an environmentalist. You need a strong g...

Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of Laura's death. I had fully intended to post something last night, but two things stopped me. The fi...

First, a little good news. Back when the housing bubble burst and banks tightened up on credit card lending in the fall of 2008, I was one o...