I continue to be fine but not quite ready to resume a normal pace o' posting. Thanks (again) to those of you who've written in concern but apart from a touch of sleep deprivation, I'm okay and I will be in Anaheim this weekend at least some of the time to host panels and walk aimlessly around WonderCon. Here is a link to the list of panels I'll be hosting there.
Can't write much about Trump because I haven't been keeping up on what he's doing…and by the way, that's a great way to get a restful night of sleep and/or digest your food without a Pepto Bismol milk shake — you know, the kind with multi-colored Omeprazole sprinkled on top. I'm probably on safe ground though if I say that his big plans are fizzling out, his outright lies are being exposed everywhere, and the downward descent of his favorable rating just passed typhoid and will soon be lower than passing a kidney stone the size and shape of a Rubik's Cube.
I did though enjoy this piece by Matt Taibbi. Favorite paragraph…
One of the brilliant innovations of the Trump phenomenon has been the turning of expertise into a class issue. Formerly, scientists were political liabilities only insofar as their work clashed with the teachings of TV Bible-thumpers. Now, any person who in any way disputes popular misconceptions — that balancing a budget is just like balancing a checkbook, that two snowfalls in a week prove global warming isn't real, that handguns would have saved Jews from the Holocaust or little kids from the Sandy Hook massacre — is part of an elitist conspiracy to deny the selfhood of the Google-educated American. The Republicans understand this axiom: No politician in the Trump era is going to dive in a foxhole to save scientific research. Scientists, like reporters, Muslims and the French, are out.
It used to be that everyone was entitled to their opinion. Now, it's like everyone is entitled to their own Laws of Physics.
I will be back full-strength when I can be. Soon, I promise.