Today, NY Mag published an excerpt of my book, in which I talk about the past 50 years of the abusive evangelical "biblical parenting" movement, how "parental rights" entered the political lexicon, and why you shouldn't hit your kids: www.thecut.com/article/the-...
The Evangelical family’s twisted obsession with corporal punishment.
It's a good, plausible, canon-friendly way of explaining the differences in tech between TOS and DSC/SNW. Possibly even accounting for the Kelvin timeline.
They did! In SNW S2E3, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," shows us that things have changed significantly since TOS S1E22, "Space Seed." A Romulan agent goes back to kill Khan, who was supposed to be an adult by the 1990s' Eugenics Wars, only to find he isn't born until a few decades later.
It feels really shitty that all the worst people in the Middle East are fighting and I can’t even cheer them on in their quest to slaughter each other because, as always, innocent people are bearing the majority of the carnage.
Michael Crichton continues to be my favorite author of all time. I yearn to feel again the way I felt about The Andromeda Strain when I read it as a kid.
It's not the best I've ever read (by far), but my experience with Stephen King's Dark Tower series is burned into my memory. I was absolutely ensnared, so much that I put off reading the last one because I didn't want it to end. Pretty sure I was in a one-sided relationship with the characters.
I've got a trick that might work if you're anything like me. Instead of "I'm a moron for messing this up," try changing it to sarcasm: "I am obviously a genius and messing this up is part of an elaborate plan."
This is awesome, but I gotta be that guy for a second: it's not clandestine. The activity described would be elicitation, which is considered to be an overt activity. Source: Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 304, last page. (U) www.odni.gov/files/docume...