<![CDATA[They say that those who don't know their history are bound to repeat it. And there's a less well-known but corollary idea, that people who create realistic fictional content end up pulling their ideas from recent events. But every once in a while, both ideas converge: a piece of speculative fiction, drawn from elements of…

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<![CDATA[Last night, I posted the following status update to my Facebook account:   Wait, there’s been reports of racial harassment to people of color from Trump supporters? Well, we shouldn’t be surprised. I mean, when white Republicans send candidates to the White House, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending a candidate with supporters that…

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<![CDATA[ “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain   For a variety of reasons, I voted for Hillary Clinton…

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