This weekend, about every third editorial I read was about what can and should be done by government to promote the creation of more jobs. O...

The shooting of Gabriel Giffords has caused me to think about some of my basic assumptions. As a libertarian, I'm relatively pro-gun. I ...

These are the most important truths of writing I've learned to date. At various points in the past, I've posted all these rules in v...

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...