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So Bill Ayers ends up with a date with a hangman, eh? Well, at least justice prevails in some parallel universe.

Margaret was pregnant in season 6, IIRC.

Something just struck me. Why is that the only portrayal of a gay man in the West Wing was a Republican? For a liberal fantasy portrayal of the Clinton Administration, I find it curious that there wasn't a single Democratic character who was gay. Wouldn't even have had to be a main cast...

I was in those riots. Fun times. Well, no, not really all that fun; but interesting.

What's the significance of Channel 4? My 2 weeks in London, I don't think I had the TV on for more than 10 minutes the whole time I was there. And that was just to figure out how to work the damn phone for room service.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/8045793/Channel-4-to-show-drama-imagining-Prince-Harrys-capture-by-Taliban.html Interesting. I wonder, would GB be willing to employ the ultimate sanction as a threat to ensure his safety. Would the British government treat the...

Ah thank you. And Amazon.com thanks you too.

Actually, there was a book I read years ago (don't remember the title). It starts in 1975. President Kennedy's America is poised to go down fighting, but is going down because Nazi Germania and the Japanese Empire have overwhelming superiority in technology and men/materials. Intelligence has...

Wow. I didn't make the connection. I didn't realize Barnes had written Kalidascope Century and The Sky So Big and Black. You're right, it does look like the same story now.

Industrial facilities were started at both the L4 and L5 points, but were put into mothballs during the plagues. The President (TDR in drag) authorized reactivation, as well as restarting construction efforts on a Moonbase. In either A Matter for Men or A Season for Slaughter, McCarthy bumps...

Having studied these books a few hundred times, I have come to a conclusion about what the Chtorran infestation really is. I think that the Chtorran invasion is a pan-spermia phenomena with shambler trees as the prime source of the invasion. In The Season For Slaughter, McCarthy and company...

Well, finally. A book I first read when I was 16! and now, at 41, I'll be able to continue. Farking shite. I'm afraid he's writen himself into a corner. Things are so bad that, without resorting to deux ex machina, things are just fucked for good old planet Earth. As I understood the...

Well, if you follow the news posts, the point of departure is 1987, with the election of a far Left Labour PM over Maggie Thatcher. Things deteriorate over 198/88 and fighting breaks out in 1988 and he's continued the campaign up to 1989 so far. I would have liked to see Charles accepting the...

Don't know if anyone's seen this. Found it while scrolling around looking for modern military miniatures. It's a game blog, set up to look like news reports and updates. Amazingly entertaining. http://englandprevials.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html The idea of wargaming a modern...

No, AA has very limited Washington State scenes. Most of the Federal government seems to have relocated to Kansas City (Good choice there I thought). Action takes place in New York and in Texas. I do think he's overstaffed the military though. He's talking about the 101 and 82nd Airborne...

There's a mention about naval assets deploying from PR to interdict pirates in the Atlantic. That's about it.

Just finished After America. Overall, I liked it; it kept me entertained. Disappointed that I now have to wait another two years for the next book. I'm not convinced that the East Coast would be as lawless and prone to piracy/looting. I would have expected the US 6th Fleet and the...

Fun to read on a beach, but totally lacking any pretence of possibility.

I remember that book. I loved it. Funny part was, I had just finished it when, during the LA Riots, I was called up and sent into LA with the military to restore order. Shades of foreshadowing. War in 2020 and Red Army are two of my favorite military thrillers. Another under appreciated...

Yes...that would make it a very short and dull book wouldn't it?