The Washington Post reports that  Egypt has banned Ridley Scott's controversial Bible film, Exodus  (starring Christian Bale, Joel Edger...

By now, you'll have heard that Sony had opted to cancel the release of Seth Rogen and Ethan Goldberg's The Interview (2014)(starri...

[Note:  statistics will vary considerably depending where you are in the world.  I'm using statistics and studies which are mostly relev...

I'm late to the party .  The first major SF/F controversy party.  And while this post won't be about Kemp's argument specif...

Apparently Amazing Stories has become a version of controversy bingo.  Attacks on liberals?  Check.  Attacks on subgenres?  Check.  Attacks...

I said I would throw in my two-cents on this Jim Carrey story .  I realize I'm late to the party on this one, but I feel compelled to ta...

"What is misery tourism?" you might ask.  At its most basic, "misery tourism" refers to the ways peoples from wealthy, u...

(Disclaimer:  This post is a preliminary reaction .  I have not read the novel in question and can only respond to what others have said abo...

You’re probably already familiar with the shitstorm that erupted on Peter Watts’ blog over acrackedmoon’s “review” of R. Scott Bakker’s  ...

If you've been a reader of this blog for at least a year, you'll have noticed that I'm rather political.  I'm also hesitant ...

The following video might be of interest to anyone who read my previous post .  It's also a video I'm teaching my students this seme...

The latest shitstorm in the SF/F community comes in response to acrackedmoon's criticism of Pat's (of Pat's Fantasy Hotlist) co...

You'll probably have noticed that a lot of crazy nonsense took place here and then migrated over here when Jen and I put our feet in p...

Google, Wikipedia, and all manner of folks have taken up the protest gauntlet against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), a bill that, if passed,...

I recently came across this announcement of the University of Miami's 500th Anniversary commemoration for Ponce de Leon's voyages t...

Amusing as it may be to play the " the liberal media is going after Herman Cain " card when it comes to the allegations recently m...

(You'll all have to excuse me while I rant about something political on this blog.) If you haven't heard already, Rick Scott, the ...

(I originally posted this on Google+, but since most of you probably don't follow me there, I figured you'd like to read this.  No, ...

One of my friends on Facebook recently posted this on his profile: the internet scares me. it makes me think people really would vote for t...

( Part One and Part Two ) The third and final part of my long-winded political nonsense is here.  You can read the post that I am respond...