I grew up in a nice house, on a small bay, on a beautiful lake in northern Minnesota. I dated farmer’s daughters and ran from farmer’s shotguns. I never knew any other life before Yosemite fell. Since then, I’ve learned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Humanity has spent a very long time wondering what it means to be…well…human. Sentient. An individual with free will. I believe I have summarized all the tests down into a single sentence, a single statement. It is the ability to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
During our Civil War, Napoleon III sent an army to conquer Mexico, so he could support the Confederacy and end the threat of the United States of America. At the Battle of Pueblo, on the Fifth of May of 1862,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love Cinco de Mayo. Of course, to be fair, I love pretty much any holiday that devotes itself to dancing with pretty girls and partying until oh dark thirty. Oh, I know there is some kind of long ago[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most cybers that have ever been born are still alive now. The vast majority of the dead are cybers who chose to partner with a single person. After the partnership ends, many of us chose not to go on. To[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There had been rising discontent with the power of the federal government and the political division in the capital for decades before the Second Great Depression. The Tea Party and Occupy movements of the early 21st century were mere symptoms[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On May Day, people dance and celebrate the coming of spring. On International Workers Day, they protest having to work. On Loyalty Day, Americans profess loyalty to America. They all happen on the same day. As a loyal American, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No mere accident can kill a cyber. One has to be very thorough to kill someone who can be fully restored from the nearest backup, which we take great pains to secure. We don’t like to die. Most of us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most Americans and Europeans think that we have gone to space, settled it, conquered it, and now own it. They think we have driven off all the alien threats and don’t need to worry about them. What most people don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I first joined the military, I had never been off world before. I saw no reason to go anywhere else. I had everything I wanted at my fingertips. Yosemite changed that. The other worlds I traveled to changed me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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