I was looking through my drafts and realized I had fully intended to do a piece on Nassim Taleb’s “Intellectual Yet Idiot [https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.wwkp4kvz0] ” – but the Didact beat me to it with an utterly fantastic article [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2016/12/a-possibly-severe-case-of.html]. It was fun to look over the signs that “you may be an IYI” though and realize a few of them applied to me. Take TED talks. Most of them are worthless. I’…
I remember one of the questions asked when Jill Stein began her recount efforts was “why oh why is someone who loudly and repeatedly proclaimed that electing Hillary was tantamount to to begging for a nuclear war doing so much to put her in power?” I didn’t have an answer myself at the time, and still don’t, but given the results of these efforts, part of me is wondering if this is not epic – level black knighting. Our other alternatives include so gloriously incompetent that, like Inspector C…
One of my favorite, ever,podcasts used to be the – at the time well deserved for its nomination – formerly excellent Writing Excuses. I absolutely loved it. I recommended it to teachers who taught writing, I recommended it to friends who loved analyzing books and movies. I talked it up far and wide for in breaking down the art of telling a science fiction or fantasy story, most of the material applied to the art of telling stories in general. The founders were Dan Wells, a good if then tyro wr…
… and remember this post [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/fuck-what-now-with-tagon.html], not only have we found an interesting way to deal with Tagon’s death, but Tayler is – in usual fine form – exploring the consequences of it beyond the first, obvious answers.…
Decided to change it up today, and provide a few pinup illustrations from Keith Garvey. [](https://thelastredoubt.com/content/images/2016/12/91027f7e4c0d790ebf51356fb14e1939-2.jpg) [](https://thelastredoubt.com/content/images/2016/12/411919Keith_Garvey_3D_091-2.jpg-2.jpg) [![](https://thelastredoubt.com/content…