If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing.

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is that it's now easier to find and use such services.

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.