This just popped up in my blog aggregator this morning (yes, I still use a blog aggregator—it helps to avoid addictive social media algorithms), and it is legitimately the most laugh-out-loud hilarious Project Veritas video I’ve seen—and that’s saying something. Just wait until the end!
Author: Joe Vasicek
Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.
Reading Resolution Update: After Action Report
My 2022 reading resolution: Read or DNF every novel that has won a Hugo or a Nebula award, and acquire all the good ones. Earlier this month, I finished my last Hugo/Nebula book and ordered the last two ones that I hadn’t yet acquired. The first of those (Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin) arrived… Continue reading Reading Resolution Update: After Action Report
What’s your political sandwich compass?
Hardcore conservative purist, all the way!
“What government funds…”
What the government funds, it controls; and what it controls, it owns. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island.
What are the odds the world will end in the next 12 months?
Here’s a fun and cheery blog post for you. Just for fun, let’s run down all of the ways in which the world might come to an end in the next 12 months, and assign probabilities to each one. I’m not sure what qualifies as “the end of the world,” but for our purposes let’s… Continue reading What are the odds the world will end in the next 12 months?
Lessons from living without social media
In 2014, after being active on Facebook for eight years–the majority of my young adult life–I bit the bullet and deleted my account. I did it over the original Edward Snowden revelations, because I was genuinely disturbed with the connections between Facebook and the US intelligence community, and did not want to trust Zuckerberg or… Continue reading Lessons from living without social media
The argument that converted me to pro-life
I’ve never been one of these pro-abort people who sees abortion as a virtue or a fundamental right. I do understand the “my body, my choice” argument and still think that it carries some weight—after all, bodily autonomy is an important component of personal liberty and sovereignty—and for a long time, that argument had won… Continue reading The argument that converted me to pro-life
Rethinking some things
So I had an extremely vivid dream last Friday night where I got cancer and learned that I had only a month to live. Among other things, I found myself asking: “What am I going to do about my writing career? Who is going to finish all these books? Are they going to fade into… Continue reading Rethinking some things
“Hell From Beneath” by J.M. Wight
I’ve been working on this short story for a while now, and the rough draft is finally finished… but I feel like it needs some work. This will likely be the final story in the first Zedekiah Wight anthology, but the story ends on quite a downer—in fact, the whole story itself is kind of… Continue reading “Hell From Beneath” by J.M. Wight
Retro sci-fi cover fails
Back a few years ago when indie publishing was a new thing, I remember there was a blog that would take the worst self-published covers and make fun of them. It was a popular site for a while, though a lot of the indies whose covers were shamed didn’t think it was all that fun.… Continue reading Retro sci-fi cover fails