The Right Geek

( 4/17 Note: Resurrecting this post because folks are still writing politicized trash.) I'm sure you've heard this one a million ...

Originally written in 2012. "All the science fiction authors I like are either dead or dying." Sub.Spike, our father, said thi...

Bringing back another snippet from 2014: "[...] As many folks have observed, those authors who yearn for the approbation of the cultu...

From a still-relevant post originally written in 2013: "If you want to write a truly strong female character, it is not enough to put...

Originally published in 2015 but still in effect. At the request of Brad Torgersen , I hereby present my FANifesto: I was born to be a f...

Since delegates at a recent event for the Democratic Socialists of America were using what I recognized to be the language of radical disabi...

Originally published in 2014. In my circles, the word "literary" is often thrown around as a pejorative -- and given the develop...

Originally posted in 2016. I've never had the patience or the time for today's brand of western feminism. The reasons for this are...

This post, originally written in December of 2010, still holds generally true -- though in the years since, many enterprising authors of adu...

In 2006, I participated in a lively panel debate on the merits and flaws of Star Trek's Prime Directive. Below is an essay based on the ...

Today, I over-extended myself in an attempt to clean my bathroom. While I rest my aching joints, please enjoy this five-year-old post whose ...

Oops! I fell asleep early this evening and forgot to put up an actual post. To keep the content flowing, I'm going to pull a page from S...