“You can keep that gun pointed at me if it makes you feel safer,” he said, taking off his helmet and letting it hang by his side. “But I’m not here to hurt you or to take away your son. I’m here to help you both.” #Thurds #SciFi #sciencefiction

That time of year.

Give me a backroad.

“My first rifle was a .243 / that Papa gave Daddy and Daddy gave to me. / And they taught me how to shoot with a steady hand. / I guess that's somethin' you don't understand.” Whiskey Myers “Ballad of a Southern Man”

"The seeming broadmindedness that equates crime [with a pathology]...will invariably prove more cruel and inhuman than laws, no matter how severe, which respect and recognize man's independent responsibility for his behavior." - Hannah Ardent, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Starting to feel like I need to embrace tweed.

Editor at my first publisher had his wife read my first book. He said she was shocked he told her the author was a man because I had written believable female characters.

Morning

#RockinTuesday

I was indoctrinated at a young age.

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Undefeated workout song.

Some of y’all haven’t read That Hideous Strength, and it shows.

Walked out of class to find eighteen notifications on this post but only three likes. Is this what algorithm success looks like?

Really can’t stand the use of “evidence” as a verb.

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Beautiful day to be the (semi-)cool prof who drives a Harley to class.

I’ve avoided The Art of War until now because it’s often co-opted by shallow influencers and mediocre hacks who think of themselves as intellectuals. A little ways into it, though, I think it’s too bad that some people have perhaps tainted its reputation. “How victory may be

I always thought Tom Hiddleston would make an excellent Joker.

Good morning. Get after it.

Need one’a y’all to sing and another’n to play the spoons. “Lord, I know, / I know I've been changed. / The angels in heaven done signed my name.”