Jean Lamb

Jean Lamb

  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Republicans have an app for low birthrate--65,000 women who were raped last year were forced to have their rapists' babies. It's not quite Romania, but it's beginning to smell like it. However, this is balanced by the number of women...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    The New York Times has a list of about 300 Republican leaders who have received Russian money over the last couple of decades. I suggest that it's worked out well for the Russians so far. The current Speaker of the...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    @12--see Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey (I actually haven't because my appetite for slice and dice is generally quite low, though I enjoyed the bloodfest called RENFIELD rather more than I expected). But people can go lots of dark...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Half-synthetic yeast created Biologists have produced a strain of yeast whose genome is more than 50% synthetic DNA. The feat is the latest milestone for a group of labs called the Sc2.0 consortium, which has been trying to create a...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Item the first: Heinlein had a bit of fun with the Technocrats (as he knew them then, they apparently have not changed much) in "The Roads Must Roll". Item the second: Should I save out a head of lettuce for...
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    A thought on pensions--the pension age is being raised by the same people who won't hire anyone over 50. And since health care is capricious in the US, reducing Medicare just means killing the last reliable voting demographic for Republicans...
  • Commented on Shrinking the world
    Random observations: Women will not be wearing crotchless underwear for roughly one-quarter of their lives plus time recently up from childbed. And it does take longer in the loo even with a relatively well-worn corset (Of course, I have shrunk...
  • Commented on Minor updates
    I live in a big potato growing area. If it took sacrificing a virgin a month to avoid potato blight, I honestly think our town would be up for it, if that was the only thing that worked. Fortunately, this...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
    This is actually real. https://www.wired.com/2007/10/hello-kitty-ak-2/...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    Late reply: Klamath Falls is building a water pump storage facility. Now, the guy involved had to pay off his neighbors, though not as much as they wanted, and yet, here we are. https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2022/06/a-green-energy-win-in-klamath-county-steve-duin-column.html...
  • Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
    If Colleen McCullough is to be believed, Sulla was made Dictator after that nice Marius fellow occupied Rome, the city, and slaughtered a fair number of the population. Sulla was seen as the rational alternative, which tells you how off...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    Yes, the checks you write in youth come back for payment and overdraft fees later on. My dad apparently had great good fun bouncing around Italy in a scout tank, save for the getting shot at part, but decades later,...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    I might add that some states in the US now have slavery for pregnant women (including rape and incest victims). At least Missouri finally dropped the language in their most recent bill that prescribed 30 years in prison for women...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    There's an interesting article in The Atlantic about MBS--his attitude towards the West, summed VERY briefly, is 'it's either me or the clerics who will control all this oil'. MBS may be doing some hard thinking about the House Saud...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    The problems that Russia's government has (where the kleptocrats are outdone by their beloved leader in theft from the rest of Russia) is even more true of Saudi Arabia. Monarchy, orthodoxy, and the country bleeding from subsidies to a large...
  • Commented on Obligatory Hugo eligibility post
    I published two fantasy novels, one each for each series I'm running. IN THE SHADE for the continuing saga of Ravin Gambrell (with Bob Eggleton doing the cover because he likes seascapes). Falling in love with an older woman can...
  • Commented on Normal service will be resumed eventually
    {{{Hugs}}}...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
    One notes that the worldbuilding background for Heinlein's FRIDAY seems to be coming true....
  • Commented on Social architecture and the house of tomorrow
    Yes, I'm in Klamath, anyway we can go to chat mode? But since you have family here, then you know about our Lost Summer last year--over two months of 24/7 forest fire smoke (not to mention a local hill that...
  • Commented on Social architecture and the house of tomorrow
    As for California--let's talk north of Redding/would be State of Jefferson California--the wages are low in towns like Dorris and Tulelake (though they are considered satrapies of the Klamath Basin--in fact, some members of the Klamath County Library, in Oregon,...
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (2)
    There is a truck eating trestle in Albany, Oregon with lots of pictures on the interwebs about what has happened to previous trucks. The period between is usually about five years, possibly the turnover rate for local truckers......
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
    About the reading of copyrighted work as filibuster--clearly, you forget Sen. Cruz's emotional rendition of GREEN EGGS AND HAM....
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
    The US military is definitely into grid-free outposts, because the enemy has this distressing tendency to cut the power lines......
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
    Hello, it's Monday the 25th. They have till Friday to fix or delay things. I have my doubts it will happen....
  • Commented on Publishing: A Slice of Life
    One parenthetical note--the manuscript of DEATHLY HALLOWS (the final Harry Potter book) was really quickly scanned and distributed worldwide. The really sad part is that over half of the fandom who looked at it thought it was a bad fanfic...
  • Commented on Unsustainable Interstellar Civilization, Hotspot Colonies, and Dwarf Culture
    Why do we have to stick to the 24 hour day? There are people whose normal 'day' is longer than 24 hours, as measured in studies without light cues and clocks (it's been proposed that potential colonists being sent to...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    My local university library doesn't even let you in without showing student/staff id. (Only place I've encountered this.) Annoying, but less so now that so much is online. --Our local university charges 10 dollars a year for a community borrowing...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    Oregon still requires attendants for pumping gas, though in isolated communities there's a variant of self-serve being allowed, especially late at night when the next community is 150 miles away....
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    In Albany, Oregon there is a truck-eating trestle (low bridge) which has won against every single truck that has gone up against it thus far, over at least fifty years to our personal knowledge (of the history of the bridge,...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    Charging electric cars is not a problem if you have an outdoor outlet, the way we do. We also have very good relations with our neighbors, which means anyone who decides to mess with any car on the block will...
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