Monthly Archive for: ‘February, 2012’

• When Coerced Abortion Is a Sacrament

  I keep hearing about people who want to have religious exemptions for contraception in medical policies. Few people realize there’s another side to that coin: a religious exemption for coerced abortions. Well, right, but who would do such a thing you ask? The Church of …

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• Brinker’s First Class Flights

  A lot of people have focused on senior Komen execs’ compensation. I’m not sure if $400,000 is out of line for similar non-profit execs or not, but my first thought was: it’s probably not. However, there is the issue of Brinker’s expense report. At the …

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• On the Alleged Separateness of Writers of the Future and Scientology

  I have been following the contest (and some of the people involved in its administration) since 1984 when I first worked the combined Battlefield Earth / Writers of the Future booth at the World Science Fiction convention in Anaheim. All Scientology organizations are legally separate …

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• Why I No Longer Support the Writers of the Future Contest

  Trigger warning for those of you who need such, especially about bullying. For a long time, I supported Scientology’s “Writers of the Future” contest. A couple of years ago, I quietly dropped my support for it as my views on the current state of the …

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  Blowing Out the Airline Miles

  I cleared the pipes on my airline miles accounts Thursday and Friday, booking an around-the-world ticket mostly in business class. Except, you know, the single longest flight, which happens to be fourteen hours. Ugh. Normal coach airfares for round-the-world trips are pretty hideous, far more …

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