Author Archives: mongreldogs

BLG’s Top Reads of 2022

Posted on 2022 December 30 by mongreldogs

Here’s a look back at the best I read during 2022.  These are roughly listed best, first; but the quality was generally so high as to make fine distinctions specious.  Some comments on each follows the lists.  I’ll be fleshing … Continue reading →

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Review: Altered Carbon

Posted on 2022 July 6 by mongreldogs

{Ed. note: Another thing languishing in my Drafts for multiple years.  Maybe I thought I’d be expanding it?  Clearly I won’t, so here it is.} I’ve finished all of (season one?) of Altered Carbon, and have reached the conclusion that … Continue reading →

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My manifesto

Posted on 2022 July 6 by mongreldogs

{Editor’s note: This has been sitting in my Drafts since early 2017 but seems as appropriate now.} You want an ACTUAL political revolution? You want to take back our democracy or “make America great again”? Then here are the vitally … Continue reading →

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Doctor Who Season 9 Episode 10: Face the Raven

Posted on 2022 July 6 by mongreldogs

Spoilers abound, so if you, like me, are watching this over a year late {ed. note: now more like seven years}, be warned.

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Family Values

Posted on 2022 July 6 by mongreldogs

{Editor’s note: Whoof, this is an oldie that’s just sat in my Drafts for — seven(!) years, for no good reason.} As predictable as the rising of the Sun, a figure on the right has assailed same-sex marriage equality as … Continue reading →

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Strange New Worlds: All Those Who Wander

Posted on 2022 June 30 by mongreldogs

A bug hunt.  How I hate bug hunts. Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 9 “All Those Who Wander”.

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Strange New Worlds: The Serene Squall

Posted on 2022 June 16 by mongreldogs

What can I say?  They can’t all be winners…

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Sixteen years

Posted on 2022 June 12 by mongreldogs

Still going.  I’ve been writing this blog on and off — really, mostly “off”, but hey — since this date in 2006.  That’s weird to think about.

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Strange New Worlds: Spock Amok

Posted on 2022 June 3 by mongreldogs

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues to impress. “Spock Amok” has all the ingredients for an epic disaster, yet… (spoilers ahead, Captain!)  

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More inanity from the author of “Ending Online Church”

Posted on 2022 February 7 by mongreldogs

This piece (7 Thoughtful Reader Responses on Ending Online Church, NY Times, 2022 Feb 6) reeks of the same dismissive (and unimaginative) hubris as the first. With obvious great reluctance, the author admits – halfway through and fleetingly – that … Continue reading →

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