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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Ender’s Game

— Wombat-socho The long-awaited movie version of Orson Scott Card’s classic science fiction tale Ender’s Game hit the theaters today, and since I’ve been waiting to see it since the short story was first published, I went to see it this afternoon. tl;dr: Beautiful and sad and horrifying and wonderful. For those of you who […]

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 11.01.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Fifth Circuit Stays Lower Court Decision; Allows Texas To Enforce Abortion Law Big victory for AG Greg Abbott, pro-life movement Internal Notes Show Only Six People Signed Up For Obamacare On First Day CMS “war room” notes released by House investigators Amid NSA Spying Revelations, Tech Leaders Call For […]

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 10.31.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Red Sox Nation Unites In Joy: “This Is Our City” Sox Top Cards 6-1 As Lackey Dominates Third title since 2004 caps worst-to-first season France Rejects NSA Denials As “Implausible” NSA Uproar Could Spark Changes Not Seen Since 1970s “Contrite” White House Spurns Health Law’s Critics Obama defends #AbominableCareAct […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.30.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS DNI Clapper Contradicts White House Says Obama was aware of NSA snooping on allies A Year After Sandy, Public Housing Tenants Still Waiting Storm-damaged apartment buildings still not fixed Narendra Modi Keeps Up Fire On “Shahzada” No respite in attacks on Rahul Gandhi POLITICS Oklahoma Supreme Court Sustains Strikedown […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.29.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Federal Judge Strikes Down Key Elements Of Texas Abortion Law Strikes down admitting-privilege and strict drug protocol requirements US Spy Chiefs Face Congress Amid Euro Snooping Fury DIRNSA, DNI Clapper, Deputy AG Cole to testify today Obama Campaign Links Hacked Syrian Electronic Army claims credit for hijacking OFA Twitter, […]

Loose Cannons And Enthusiastically Violent AIs

— Wombat-socho Apologies for the lack of book posts lately, but frankly, I haven’t had a whole lot of time to spend between the covers of a book while playing Dad Taxi while my daughter was in town. Since I’m not going to be doing much else this week, you may wind up getting two […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.28.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Lou Reed, 1942-2013, RIP An outsider whose dark, lyrical visions made rock what it is. Report: Obama Knew, Approved NSA Spying On Merkel More fallout from the Snowden leaks Explosions Kill Five At Narendra Modi Rally In Bihar Six bombs, five dead and 83 wounded POLITICS NSA Denies Website […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Maximum Acceleration

— compiled by Wombat-socho We begin this week’s Rule 5 roundup by reminding the Loyal Readers (and occasional Go(Oglers),to swipe Soylent Green’s term) that many of the links below lead to pix of half-pretty girls half-dressed to show it and entirely pretty girls completely undressed to show it, both of which are liable to get […]

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