In a recent post I characterized all the Republican candidates as evil, belligerent Jesus freaks. I realized that this is a wide category and surely has some nuance to it. So, I’ve decided to clarify as to exactly why all of these people would be not just bad presidents but are in fact loathsome human beings in general. Here is why I won’t be voting for…
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Another National Novel Writing Month has come and gone and, alas, I have little to show for it. I wasn’t even able to finish the novel that I have been working on for the past ten months– but I did get a lot of work done on it and have only about 7-8 thousand words left to go. With a little more work and maybe a sleepless night or two, I should have it finished in two more weeks.
The book I’ve been working on is called The Lives of Perfect Creatures. The title comes from a quote by Russian Mathematician and futurist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who figured out the equation for escape velocity, making him, arguably the father of Space Exploration. Astronomy and the early Russian Space Program figure heavily in the story, but more in a metaphorical and symbolic way, rather than having anything to do with the plot, which is fairly thin.
