Your doctor just told you you had a miscarriage. You didn’t even know you were pregnant! It’s a faintly sad moment. You actually would like a child, but it’s hard to know whether to grieve for something with only almost existed. …

First of all, I’m disappointed Naomi only got one season. Kaci Westfall is a fantastic actor and the show was only just hitting its stride. There was some definite marketing fail there (a lot of people didn’t realize it was a DC show) and also some pacing issues, but I…

I really don’t want COVID right now. It would be particularly inconvenient to get sick over the next few weeks. I mean, I don’t really want COVID at all. But I just found out another reason you don’t want it, especially if you’re high risk. …

It’s a movie trope. The pilot gets killed by the bad guys and our hero, who has never flown a plane before, successfully lands the plane. Usually with help from ATC. Yesterday, it actually happened at Palm Beach in Florida. The pilot became abruptly incoherent and their passenger landed the…

C.J. Cherryh is one of my favorite science fiction authors of all time. She’s best known for her Foreigner series (how the heck is a series where the characters spend so much time drinking tea so riveting?) but my favorite of her work is Cyteen. Cyteen and its sequel, Regenesis…

Me, Saturday night: They said a few weeks. Me, Sunday morning: WHO is Ncuti Gatwa? This is almost always my reaction. In fact I officially predicted in February that the new Doctor would be “Somebody who has not been mentioned in connection with the role.” I was, of course, right. …

On March 26, 1989 a TV show debuted that ran for a solid five seasons. It starred Scott Bakula as a physicist who’s experiment in time travel went…interestingly, and Dean Stockwell as the one guy who can communicate with him. At the time, the show did really well. It had…

Follow up from yesterday’s post. Somebody pointed out that Christian Dominionists are often very quiet about it. They can be very subtle. Some people also may have Dominionist tendencies but not identify as one. So, here are some warning signs that the person you are talking to may be a…

So. Deep breath. There’s a movement in this country which people don’t understand, and which is behind so many of our problems. That movement is Dominionism. What is Christian Dominionism? Christian Dominionism is, plain and simple, the belief that Christians have an obligation to do their best to rise to power in a country…