RIP Harlan

He died peacefully in his sleep.

Who the hëll could have predicted that. I always thought he’d die while stopping a bank robbery. Or from an assassin’s bullet. Or flying off a twisty mountain road because some jáçkášš in a Corvette thought he was a better driver.

Instead peacefully. In his sleep.

Son of a bìŧçh.

The last several years he was mostly a prisoner of his stroke afflicted body. Most times recently when I tried to call, no one picked up.

He wasn’t happy. Not for a long time.

Now it’s our turn.

PAD

Order of the Chaos — The Hidden Earth, Book 3

I am pleased to announced that as of now, a mere eleven years after the release of the first book in the Hidden Earth trilogy, the concluding novel, ORDER OF THE CHAOS, is now available in paperback. The ebook will be available within a few weeks.

You can find it right here.. And you can read more about it right here.

The final battle between humanity and the mythic creates who have taken over the planet called the Ðámņëd World finally unspools, and ideally there will be some surprises along the way.

So fans everywhere can stop asking me.

PAD

The Republicans are winning…at least in Ohio

Ohio developed the kind of vote-purging scheme that makes GOP schemers all tingly. If you’re an Ohio voter and don’t vote for an election, they send you a postcard to make sure you’re still there, haven’t moved, and are alive. If you assume this card to be junk mail and toss it in the way that most people do, bam. When you show up at the next election, guess what? You’ll discover your name has been stricken from the voting rolls.

This is considered a dream law because it targets all the folks that Republicans hate because they typically vote Democrat: Students, the poor, Blacks and Hispanics.

The Ohio courts ruled in a case that that was illegal, so naturally it worked its way up to the Supreme Court. And thanks to the idiot that Trump installed (rather than the guy that the GOP prevented Obama from getting in) the SCOTUS voted 5-4 that the law was just fine. The dissenting judges saw this for what it was, but the conservative majority happily embraced it.

You can absolutely bet that with this new ruling in effect, Republican states will very likely produce their own versions of Ohio’s ban. This could potentially lock up a GOP presidential win in 2020 unless every dámņëd Democrat who decided to sit out the 2016 election makes dámņëd sure that they are still registered.

PAD