Category Archives: Writing

Lunacon 2009 (4): Sunday

Posted on 2009 March 23 by mongreldogs

After the hectic pace on Saturday, the con wound down somewhat before concluding on Sunday. I attended a panel on Galileo, another one on world building, and one on World Domination. Then I attended the dead dog filk and went … Continue reading →

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Lunacon 2009 (3): Saturday

Posted on 2009 March 22 by mongreldogs

Today was the busiest of the convention. I gave blood; saw Mercedes Lackey and others hold forth on building fantasy worlds; participated in a discussion on financial crises in sci fi; participated (sort of) in the Masquerade after all; caught … Continue reading →

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Lunacon 2009 (0): Arrival

Posted on 2009 March 20 by mongreldogs

Well, here I am at the Hilton Rye Town for my third Lunacon. Apparently during the past year the Lunacon people changed their versioning system from counting from the first Lunacon (making this the 52nd) to simply attaching the year. … Continue reading →

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The (non) Importance of Caring

Posted on 2009 February 3 by mongreldogs

A former student of mine at some point had a facebook status that read, Why should I study something I don’t care about?  Why should teachers teach something they don’t care about? Actually, to be 100% accurate, the student’s status … Continue reading →

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25 Things

Posted on 2009 February 1 by mongreldogs

There is a viral meme going around Facebook about listing 25 random things about yourself. It’s not accurate, since people spend some time crafting the 25 things (so they’re not really random … it’s not like people write 500 things … Continue reading →

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Somewhere Beyond the Bitter End

Posted on 2009 February 1 by mongreldogs

This is another in my intermittent series of posting things I’d written long before, so that they’re out there on the Net. I wrote this one quite some time ago, back when I was in the Bard Writing Workshop that … Continue reading →

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Dawn Breaks

Posted on 2008 November 4 by mongreldogs

A few minutes ago, Fox News — Fox News! — called the Presidential race for Senator Barack Obama. By now most networks have agreed, and apparently Senator John McCain has conceded the race. Wow. It’s going to take a while … Continue reading →

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Why Bother to Vote?

Posted on 2008 November 3 by mongreldogs

I wrote this at the request of my friend Maureen Leming, who is also Director of Annual Giving and Communications, and who wanted to send it out to the local media. No one bit, but I like it enough that … Continue reading →

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What’s Going Wrong

Posted on 2008 September 30 by mongreldogs

The failure to enact the bailout bill, or indeed, any economic recovery bill, has shaken some people to their core. It’s heightened a sense that our politics is broken and that we as a people no longer have what it … Continue reading →

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I am a Values Voter

Posted on 2008 September 7 by mongreldogs

After the election in 2004, we were preached at that George W. Bush won election (not re-election) due to the rejection of John Kerry by “values voters” .. as if the millions who voted for Kerry had no decent values. … Continue reading →

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