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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
Posted in Announcement, Blogbegging
49 Comments
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.
Posted in Blogbegging
3 Comments
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
Posted in Blogbegging
18 Comments
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
Posted in Blogbegging
54 Comments
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
Posted in Blogbegging
36 Comments
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
Posted in Blogbegging
14 Comments
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
Posted in Blogbegging, Other
4 Comments
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
Posted in Blogbegging
8 Comments