From Twitter 08-10-2010

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Win But Fail, week-old news, and some links

Last week’s Win But Fail has finally escaped the queue! Feast your eyes on my week-old opinions about the Perry v. Schwarzenegger verdict!

I was tempted to do a double-feature, but then discovered that they’d also released/published my piece on Missouri’s Proposition C, which means my weekly quota for “get off my lawn” has probably been met.

Consider this a reprieve, as well as an opportunity to let me know if you’ve got any suggestions for a future column.

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If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably already seen me say unflattering things about this piece from the Christian Science Monitor. The short version: the author’s thesis is ridiculous and demeans both women and men. Also, allowing a portion of the population that even the most liberal estimates say tops out at about 10 percent to marry doesn’t exactly prevent the other 90 from doing whatever it is they do. Nice red herring, though. Thanks for playing.

Like the Lovecraft mythos but find it woefully free of women, sexuality, and LGBTQ people? Like to write stories in that vein? Cthulhurotica is accepting submissions until September 15th. (This interview helped clarify the editor’s stance on how far the erotic element can go, FYI.)

Someone on Twitter linked to this really excellent article about anti-Islamic sentiment, and how the government isn’t exactly helping. My city has a mosque, and I’ve worked with Muslim students, and yet I’m not surprised. We get some of this around here, and it breaks my heart.

Smashwords founder Mark Coker talks about the future of publishing. As always, I maintain a healthy skepticism both of self-publishing (quality control is a Good Thing) and books that never see print (say “historical record” with me), but it’s interesting to see an investor quoting Tool lyrics and talking about how the independent e-publishing scene affects publishing overall.

This op ed by Paul Krugman about American regression is more than a little terrifying. I don’t agree with everything he says, but it’s useful if nothing else as a signpost that should give us pause.

There is not a day that passes that this XKCD strip doesn’t make my world better by existing.

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