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PRESIDENTIAL TALL TALES VI

We continue our quest to find a conspiracy theory for each President of the United States. To reiterate the rules, we need something that was not just made up yesterday on the Interwebs: a conspiracy theory is best if it is contemporary with the president, or arose shortly thereafter. And to be a REALContinue reading “PRESIDENTIAL TALL TALES VI”

DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER 10

“Toots and Casper had a baby named….” “Buttercup!” Bott sealed the last of his belt grenades, having checked the charge in each one. “How can you chat that way with a slave ship?” he asked Nubry. “Oh! Well,” The librarian shrugged three times in quick succession. “She’s not really that muchContinue reading “DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER 10”

Airy Problems

I know it’s not February, but you can always file this column and not read it until February (if then.) Besides, I’m offering you a break from all those November articles which tell you that Benjamin Franklin suggested the turkey be made our national bird instead of the bald eagle. This always hasContinue reading “Airy Problems”

PRESIDENTIAL TALL TALES V

This is a series where we seek out at least one good solid conspiracy theory about each President of the United States. We prefer those which were active at the time the President in question was, and the theory should be considered, by a majority of Mainstream Historians (as any good Conspiracy Theorist knowsContinue reading “PRESIDENTIAL TALL TALES V”

DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER 9

A Sheriff’s snip must contain a large number of well-trained troopers. Anything might come up which required their attention: the suppression of a revolt, the arrest of a governor-general (which might require defeating an entire planet’s military force), that sort of thing. The troopers aboard the Rhododendron were the best Sheriff Parimat had foundContinue reading “DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER 9”

FICTION FRIDAY: Neatness Counts

Ridiculous! He stepped away from the tumble of garlic. He might have moved on, crushing the cloves underfoot, to symbolize what he would do to the idiots who concocted such a trap, but reflected that if they were setting traps in the corridor, they might have forgotten the old passage behind the tapestry ofContinue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: Neatness Counts”

PRESIDENTIAL TALL TALES iv

You will recall our mission in the search for a conspiracy theory about each President of the United States: we are looking for old theories, not something somebody on the Interwebs made up last week, and we seek accusations which turned out to be untrue, or at least unproven. The mid nineteenth century wasContinue reading “PRESIDENTIAL TALL TALES iv”

DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER 7

The flange was tricky; it hadn’t been attended to in some time. Nubry had to shake the whole assembly to break off bits of corrosion while Bott eased out the faulty flange, trying not to let any bits of it fall into vital parts of the machinery. At least, he thought, she was pilotContinue reading “DRAGONSHELF AND THE DROVER 7”

FICTION FRIDAY: To a Degree

“You down there, Uncle Jack?” “Yep/” I felt my way down the stairs. My uncle is as cheap as he is eccentric, and though you’d think a man with a flair for machinery could change light bulbs, he likes to wait until he can’t tell a copper wire from his vise grips.Continue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: To a Degree”

PRESIDENTIAL TALL TALES III

We continue our hunt for the conspiracy theories which bedeviled the Presidents of the United States, following the same rules as before. These have to be contemporary conspiracy theories accusing the Presidents of nefarious plans, not something made up by me or the Interwebs later, and they must be conspiracies which Mainstream Historians, byContinue reading “PRESIDENTIAL TALL TALES III”