Okay, the debate. Let’s liveblog. 🙂 Barack Obama is hardly “the most liberal member of the Senate” as McCain likes to say. Two tax brackets? Did I catch that correctly? McCain wants to collapse the tax brackets to only two? How is building nuclear power plants, as McCain suggests we need to do, going toContinue reading “On the Debate and John McCain’s Lies”
Author Archives: Allyn
On Community Organizers, Myth, History, and Politics
Over the past month I’ve seen a meme making its way across the interwebs. Not a meme in the questions-passed-from-blog-to-blog sense that “meme” usually means online, but a meme in the more traditional sense, an idea that’s spreading and taking root. The meme? “Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.” This is,Continue reading “On Community Organizers, Myth, History, and Politics”
On “The Life Bringer”
I was flipping through the new Previews — that being the catalog of upcoming comics — and I saw that IDW Publishing is continuing with their Doctor Who Classics series. According to the solicit for Doctor Who Classics Volume 2, number 1, the classic fourth Doctor story being reprinted is “The Life Bringer.” In “TheContinue reading “On “The Life Bringer””
On LEGO Beatles
In the annals of the “strange, but cool,” I have to submit this — LEGO Beatles album covers! Yes, several of the Beatles’ classic album covers have been done in LEGO. I really like LEGO A Hard Day’s Night. 🙂 There are some talented artists out there. These are amazing, if that’s your kind ofContinue reading “On LEGO Beatles”
On Wild Card Musings
As a Cubs fan :cubs:, I find myself in the awkward position of pulling for — not rooting for — the New York Mets. I find it awkward for two reasons. One, the pain of 1969, despite being years before I was born, still runs too deep, and thus the Mets choking two years runningContinue reading “On Wild Card Musings”
On John McCain’s Campaign
John McCain is suspending his presidential campaign tomorrow. The reason? So he can go to Washington and work out a solution to the crisis rocking Wall Street. Twenty-four hours ago, McCain had been trying to distance himself from any role in resolving the financial crisis. Only now does McCain want to be involved in movingContinue reading “On John McCain’s Campaign”
On Merkle’s Boner, One Hundred Years Later
One hundred years ago today, on September 23, 1908, the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants met in the Polo Grounds. The National League pennant was on the line, and in the bottom of the ninth the Giants were on the verge of winning. What followed later generations called “Merkle’s Boner.” A fly ballContinue reading “On Merkle’s Boner, One Hundred Years Later”
On Japanese Space Elevators
Several years ago when I was invited to pitch stories for the Star Trek: S.C.E. series, one of the ideas I tossed out was a story in which the crew of the USS da Vinci have to repair a space elevator damaged during the Dominion War. Thus was Ring Around the Sky born. The conceptContinue reading “On Japanese Space Elevators”
On the Advice of Jed Bartlet
A few weeks ago I wrote about an article in The Atlantic that rated the fictional Presidents of film, much as Presidential historians today rate the real Presidents. The Atlantic article limited itself to presidents such as Bill Pullman in Independence Day, Michael Douglas in The American President, Kevin Kline in Dave. Martin Sheen’s JedContinue reading “On the Advice of Jed Bartlet”
On Talking Blogging
James Bow pointed me in the direction of this, two questions that basically ask, “Why blog?” Let’s take a look at both, and see what sort of bloggery insights I may have in answering Amy’s questions… What is one thing you wish you knew about blogging when you started or what advice would you giveContinue reading “On Talking Blogging”