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Old news - but the Alli pill, by GlaxoSmithKline, is dangerous, fraudulent, and disgusting.

The market for "Christian Media" that's actually "Shitty Media" has apparently expanded to include vampire fiction. This is yet another reason that Stephenie Meyer is a terrible person who has made the world worse.

Roger MacBride Allen has a stone to add to the massive pyramid of Advice For Writers. It's a noble pyramid at this point - and not a small one.

From the page: "So when I was fourteen and my dad decided I should help him out on a hot tar job for the first time, he took me to do my first time new-boots-tools-bucket-and-belt shop. (Actually, I used a cleaned-out ice cream bucket, that first time. I always got them new later at hardware stores, because they cost nothing and...ew. I mean, if they didn't have a big pile of them you could take free at the yard, as sometimes did not happen.) And being fourteen, I wandered off and started looking at some kind of sub-Leatherman-even doodad that was supposed to do everything at once â€" the Hammerplierscrewdriverbroom or whatever.

And my dad saw me looking at it and said "We came here to get you tools." And then paused and launched one of those mini-sermons that actually turned out to be pretty good. And very useful, for the rest of my life, even."

From the page: "Spambots will soon be as smart as dumb people." An analysis of progress and possible consequences.