Monthly Archives: March 2018

Bangladeshi Science Fiction Writer Zafar Iqbal Stabbed In The Head As “An Enemy of Islam”

Evidently jihad even extends down to us lowly science fiction writers. Saturday’s attack on Zafar Iqbal in the northern city of Sylhet was just the latest in a series of stabbings of secular or atheist authors and bloggers in Muslim-majority … Continue reading →

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BattleSwarm Blog Endorses Jerry Patterson for Land Commissioner

Because I blog about national and international events as well as state and local events, I haven’t covered some state issues as extensively as I might have. One of those is the down-ballot race between incumbent George P. Bush and … Continue reading →

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Netcraft Confirms It: Slashdot is Dying

It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Slashdot is dying. One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when posters confirmed that the site had not been updated since March 1 and that much of the functionality (including … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for March 2, 2018

Happy Texas Independence Day! I keep waiting for things to slow down, and they keep not slowing down. And the Texas primary election is next week… Eric S. Raymond discusses elite blindness about immigration. Diversity erodes social trust, trust being … Continue reading →

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Amazon BUYcott Today

Given that various liberal gun-grabbing orgs have declared a boycott against Amazon for refusing to cut ties with the NRA, supporters of the NRA and the Second Amendment should declare today a buycott and cluster all of your Amazon purchases … Continue reading →

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