Website review: Making Light
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•nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/
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flyingrose rated 8 months ago- Stumbler slithytove tells us this is an "Interesting blog by Theresa Nielsen Hayden, a well-known editor at Tor Books, a science fiction/fantasy publisher. Remember Katrina and do not expect real, timely, or intelligent assistance in any emergency. From the page: "As I pointed out here a while back, in a comment to Lis, Bush & Co. have always treated FEMA like a branch of public relations: I'll bet you already know that FEMA jobs were handed out to a lot of the guys who participated in attacks on vote recounts in Florida in 2000. I'll bet you also know that Bush & Co. have always regarded FEMA as an arm of their PR operation. When Florida was repeatedly hit by hurricanes during the run-up to the last presidential election, FEMA agents got there practically before the hurricane hit. They empowered people to act for them on an extremely casual basis, and pretty much ladled money out over the heads of the hurricane victims. (Also non-victims: FEMA paid for a good many funerals of people who weren't killed by hurricane; and by more than one report, it was enough to take your banged-up car in and claim it was damaged in the hurricane to get it repaired on the federal dime.) The difference between FEMA's behavior in Florida before the election, and in Louisiana after it, was so striking that I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more attention. Of course, the difference between FEMA's behavior in Florida before the election, and in Florida after it, has also been worthy of comment. There's the thing I wish red-state diehards would notice: It could have been them. FEMA's being run by members of the buccaneer's crew, they don't know what they're doing, and now that George doesn't need our votes, the only thing they're interested in is giving out lucrative contracts to friends of their operation. The disaster could just as easily have been widespread forest fires in Idaho, or another New Madrid-type earthquake in the Mississippi Valley, or a volcanic event along the continental Pacific Rim, or a massive brownout in the Southwest in July, or a killer ice storm in the Carolina Piedmont. FEMA would have screwed it up just as badly as they screwed up in Louisiana. You know that cynical and untruthful line about how a conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged? I'm hoping some newly-minted centrists will be conservatives who've suddenly noticed that the us-and-them line has been drawn a lot higher than they thought it would be, and that it's well above their heads."
- officedoodler rated 12 months ago
- Interesting Content. Keep up the good work!
- ramjac rated 25 months ago
- I liked the 'building flame throwers out of pvc' discussion.
- CHE123 rated 33 months ago
- Some excellent articles here, I'll have to take the time to dig deeper! From the page: "So how many battalions are there? 100? 80? Three? One? Who are ya gonna believe, baby? Me or your lyin' eyes? General Casey, of course, is the senior US commander in Iraq. He informed the Senate that the Iraqis have only one useful battalion on 29 September, two days before Bush told the country that they have 80."
- ecban rated 35 months ago
- Always a worthwhile read, but moreso now because the Haydens are compiling an excellent collection of commentary on the US government's spectacular failure in New Orleans. My heart goes out...
- caligula04 rated 39 months ago
- 12/2/04: An interesting bit of everything. :) 4/26//05: Re Serenity: "I've now seen it. It hasn't increased my desire to see the movie, but that's because that dial was already cranked all the way over to "max." The visuals are great. The special effects are judicious and expensive. I care about neither so much as I care about the characters and dialogue, which were spiff. There's just something reassuring about hearing Mal say, "I aim to misbehave."
- lexica rated 45 months ago
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden is one of the sharpest, clearest minds writing for the net today, IMO. I'll read anything she writes and anything she says is worth reading.
- slithytove rated 46 months ago
- Interesting blog by Theresa Nielsen Hayden, a well-known editor at Tor Books, a science fiction/fantasy publisher
