Archive for: May 2004

Interesting discussion over at Sarah’s place about the current state of short stories. Now, I love short stories. I suspect I caught it from my mother, a former teacher. She had an old copy of TALES …

Except when it doesn’t. I think I wrote a while back about how coming up with the perfect title energized me to finish up a story I was working on - and it came out pretty good, too. …

There are numbers of people on the left, in the United States and abroad, who have declared that the Iraqis and other Arabs fighting against the American army in Iraq are a “legitimate resistance”. Now, I don’t want this …

An article in the San Francisco Chronicle confirms what I already believed: Pat Tillman was a complex character who doesn’t easily fit anyone’s stereotypes. Although he’s been embraced by conservatives, he wasn’t really conservative himself. While definitely …