We talk to folks a lot about genre books and movies, but what do they have to say about books from outside the field? Q: SF conventions often have panels on "What sf books would you recommend to someone who hadn't encountered the field before?" Let's turn that around: "What non-sf/fantasy books woul...

BLOG Links for the Week -- Saturday January 31, 2009 T his world is fucked. Maybe it's the endless brutal winter getting to me. Maybe it's my resultant lack of exercise. Maybe it's the total absurdity of the belief that Obama or anyone else can possibly hope to prevent the ghastly slide into truly h...

by Robert Wilkinson January features the Sun in Capricorn, and during January 2009 we also began the year with Jupiter in this Cardinal Earth sign, as well as Mars the entire month and Mercury the last 10 days of the month. This shows that we've had a Capricorn emphasis in our Sag and Pisces areas, ...

An American Carol seems to lack that genuine mean-spiritedness that makes conservatives like P.J. O'Rourke and Mark Steyn so funny. It's a shame to see an old lion like David Zucker (see here, here, here, here) wither into comedic senescence. Then again, it will happen to us all. Towelhead seems to ...

See them as they happen at Twitter.com/augiedb! iTunes 2008 Best of Podcasts lists disgusts me. 90% of it is rewarmed radio and television shows. They’re afterthoughts, not podcasts. @LordShaper - I love people who tell you how easy it is to start a 10,000 listener podcast. Yeah, start with a ...

Por Manuel Prieres   Ernesto Guevara De La Cerna es una de las figuras de los tiempos modernos más favorecida por eso que se conoce como “El Mito â€�.   Posiblemente El Mito del Che Guevara tiene sus orígenes en aquella gélida tarde del mes de marzo de 1960 en el cementerio de Coló...

Sidney 1586 Originally uploaded by wodja November 30, 1554 was the birthday of Sir Philip Sidney. In his short life -- he died of gangrene from a musket-ball in the thigh at the age of 31 -- he had been a notable ambassador to the Emperor, had been proposed to on behalf of two European princesses, h...

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Guest Editorial by KT Meaney To err, to ahh, to umm, to sputter and stammer, to flounder and fum(ble) — is human. I forgive the public speaker of any one of these oratorical infringements. My reason: you don’t have to be a good speaker to make a good presentation, so long as it is well d...

Namibia loves The Victors. An intrepid emailer spent his time as an English teacher in Namibia wisely: (There’s also mindblowing video of the kids singing “Like A Prayer�.) This email caused me to look Namibia up on Wikipedia, and now I know that only 1% of the land in the country is arable an...