ArmadilloCon sched

This weekend is ArmadilloCon. Friday I'll be teaching in the writing workshop all day; I'll be around in the evening, wherever there are drinks. The rest of my schedule looks like this:

Imagining a World without Fossil Fuels
Sat 10:00 AM-11:00 AM San Antonio
E. Bear, A. Porter, J. Reisman, A. Simmons*, K. Stauber, F. Stanton
Discussing the implications of this all-too-plausible scenario.

Signing
Sat 11:00 AM-Noon Dealers' Room
C. Brown, U. Fung, C. Neill, J. Reisman

Building a Fictional Society from the Ground Up
Sat 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Sabine
A. Bishop, A. Downum, A. Goldsmith, J. Mandala, J. Reisman*, M. Wells
A discussion of worldbuilding in sf/f.

Reading
Sun 10:30 AM-11:00 AM San Marcos   Come to my reading! It's on Sunday morning at 10:30! Ha!
Jessica Reisman

Workshopping to Success
Sun 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Sabine
M. Dimond, K. Jewell, S. Leicht*, M. Maresca, N. Moore, J. Reisman
What the ArmadilloCon / Clarion / Clarion West / Odyssey did for me (as a student or a teacher)

Links of a socio-political nature, with short rant in A minor

Via Martha Wells a worthwhile article from the Guardian - How Racism Takes Root.

Heh. Fox News banned from Canada. Although, not so heh, they can tell all the lies they want here in the USA, and people think it's news.

Jason Alexander is not too dumb about the limits of the second amendment. Anyone who says that if more people had been armed in that theater fewer people would have died is seriously deluded about the realities of the logistics of tear gas, crowds, and a dark movie theater. More people would have died, many more.

Speaking of serious delusions, anyone who votes for Mitt Romney thinking a selfish, compassionless bully of a businessman is going to make things better in this country (for anyone but the wealthiest of the wealthy) is so out of touch with reality that they are a danger to themselves and others. If they cast that vote because they think that they, too, will one day be among those wealthiest, they are stone cold duped.

Although, I have to say I feel like I'm talking to a wall. There's so much crazy in this country, and it's gotten such a stranglehold on our media, on our political machinery, on our health and well being, that I don't really think anyone can say anything to them. The far right behave like fundamentalst terrorists. They're right and everyone who disagrees with them, looks different from them, or feels differently than they do, should die. That's what their words and their actions say. I'd be happy to let them live in peace with their delusions if they didn't feel the need to stamp on the necks (that is, on the rights and lives) of everyone else.