PIMPING FRIENDS AND CORRECTING QUOTES

Writing

Happy Book Day to the lovely Samantha Henderson! Today marks the release of her latest Forgotten Realms novel, Dawnbringer, which has been described as "Romeo & Juliet in the Realms." Go buy a copy and send her Amazon sales ranking through the roof (and then come back in a few months and do the same for me, heh)!

Congrats, Sam!

Everything Else

So. Osama bin Laden. I won't lie. I'm glad he's dead. Bravo Zulu, SEALs. Damned fine job, as always.

I'm not really sure I think dancing in the streets is the appropriate response, but if we don't have the right to dictate how others grieve (e.g., the memorial after the Tucson shootings), we don't really have the right to dictate how they celebrate, either, do we? Freedom, as Thelma (of Thelma & Louise fame) would say, "is some tricky shit."

I've seen a lot of folks posting that Mark Twain quote, and it sums up my feelings about the whole thing pretty well, really. The correct version, correctly attributed:

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." -- Clarence Darrow