Pshaw. Don’t you know who I am? Rules are for subjects. Not for rulers. Recognize, bitches.

1. First, our old friend Ric Locke has published a sci-fi novel, available in digital format Amazon. At $2.99, you couldn’t go wrong even if what you are getting is mostly meh. But this is Ric Locke. So what you’ll be getting is not only interesting, but likely sprinkled with a bit of genius, as well. Get a copy. Support the arts. Without having some ridiculous New York gatekeeper decide

I haven’t heard this mentioned — granted, I haven’t been paying close attention — but in the midst of the latest media distraction / dissembling / erroneous grounpthink over Sarah Palin’s supposed Paul Revere gaffe (in which, yet again, she showed herself more knowledgeable than those who presumed to sniff at her mistake), people seem to have missed her suggestion that, while a year ago she would have completely rejected