Category Archives: Blogbegging

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Tell the Federal Government to Respect Religious Freedom

Monday, April 8 is the deadline for submitting comments to the Obama Administration on the latest version of its HHS contraceptive/abortifacient/sterilization mandate. Please take a moment to submit a short online comment in support of religious freedom. Religious freedom is … Continue reading

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Orson Scott Card Blacklisted for Christian Faith

From the pen of David Blount over at the site Moonbattery There’s a price to be paid by countermoonbats with courage enough to stand up for decency and sanity in a culture that is swirling down the toilet. Ask Orson … Continue reading

Posted in Announcement, Blogbegging, Musings, Only Posting a Link | 110 Comments

Outrage of the Day

Canadian right-wing blogger Blazing Cat Fur is being sued for linking to Mark Steyn. Donate to his legal defence.

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Suicide in Metachronopolis

I should not have done it. I have a manuscript due on the editor’s desk in January. I took a week off to write a short story set in my background of Metachronopolis, the golden city beyond the end of … Continue reading

Posted in Blogbegging, Fancies, Free Fic | 12 Comments

Save CITY OF HEROES!

This weekend is my birthday, and it will mark the last 30 days of operation of the online massive multiplayer superhero game CITY OF HEROES. It is being shut down by NC Soft, and, as best we startled and woebegone … Continue reading

Posted in Blogbegging, Drollery, Fancies | 31 Comments

A thousand roads lead men to Rome

I want to have one of my characters in AD 11055 discovering that the only language he has in common with the posthuman self-aware machinery covering the earth from pole to pole is Latin say to himself “All roads lead … Continue reading

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Polling my Readers

My local bookstores are neither carrying my latest COUNT TO A TRILLION, nor the paperback of my beautiful and talented wife’s latest masterpiece, PROSPERO IN HELL. So I would like to conduct a completely nonscientific poll and ask anyone willing … Continue reading

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Free Exercise of Religion Officially Outlawed

Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof, except in regard to appointing an unelected Bureaucrat to arbitrarily misdirect private medical insurance funds for non-medical use, such as providing free condoms, free sterilization, … Continue reading

Posted in Blogbegging, Drollery, Musings | 16 Comments

Wednesday is Chik-Fil-A Day

Unfortunately, I spent my lunch money for this week going to Chik-Fil-A yesterday. So if you want me to go to eat anti-bullying-thug chicken sandwich today, you will have to put seven dollars into my my tip jar (see the … Continue reading

Posted in Announcement, Blogbegging, Musings | 98 Comments

Guess about Gauss

Okay. Here is the anecdote that John C Wright, innumerate, found in MEN OF MATHEMATICS: here’s a popular story that Gauss, mathematician extraordinaire, had a lazy teacher. The so-called educator wanted to keep the kids busy so he could take … Continue reading

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Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee

I received this note this day in my mail. “Mr. Wright, I find myself and my compatriots in need of assistance.I am a member in Northern Kentucky University’s pro-life group, Northern Right to Life. Since our conception, every year when … Continue reading

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Vote for Prospero and he will free Ariel!

The novel by my lovely and talented wife, PROSPERO REGAINED, is in a book tournament today. Various books are being put up against other books to compete for Best Book of 2011. PROSPERO REGAINED is, sadly, up against A DANCE … Continue reading

Posted in Blogbegging, Crowing | 7 Comments

Prayer Request

Since this is Advent, and all my good Protestant friends and bad Catholic friends are spending extra time in prayer as the days grow darker, I thought I would pass this along from the friend of mine, an ex-witch now … Continue reading

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Latin Begging

Are any of you scholars out there willing to help a poor student with his Latin? Here is text from my current manuscript: His voice was so horse and cracked that it made me wince and wish I had a … Continue reading

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