Stuck a feather in his cap....

Maybe this is silly but I'm just psyched. I learned something new
today!

I found out what "Macaroni" means in the song Yankee Doodle!

A "Macaroni" in the period of king George (of tea taxing fame)
was an excessively stylish gentleman. Those who aspired to
high fashion (and succeeded) were a Macaroni.

I suspect that the point of Yankee Doodle was that he aspired
to high fashion... and failed. ;-)

Comments

Ymarsakar said…

Wen Spencer's new book, Endless Blue, was pretty good. Wrote a review right now, actually, on my blog.

11:29 AM

Synova said…

I like everything she's done so far. I can't wait to check out Endless Blue. I can't afford hardcovers at this point so I hope I don't have to wait too long.

10:21 PM

Anonymous said…

You aren't going to read the electronic format?

11:24 AM

Synova said…

And where do I get that? ;-)

I've only bought e-books from Baen so far. _Endless Blue_ is from a different publisher, isn't it?

7:31 PM

Ymarsakar said…

I got an email from Baen webscriptions for November 2007, that had Endless Blue as one of their ARCs.

5:57 PM

Some times some people.

It's Not Projection

Take the case of "fascism". When you can see clear as day that the person who is accusing you of fascism is a fascist, they aren't projecting. They're talking about something ELSE. Basically, in the case of fascism, the basic set of fascist government controls are the default assumption of reality for a whole lot of people. The government is supposed to control every part of your life. The government is supposed to make you moral and good and reflect "justice". The government is supposed to do this by picking winners from the good people and losers from the bad people. The government is supposed to control the way people do business, how businesses (and farmers) function and what they produce. And people should be made to cooperate with this control because they are part of society and society is dependent on everyone being in compliance. This is simply the Truth. It's how the world works and how the world is supposed to work. The Socialist Nationalism,

What You Know That Isn't So

The saying goes like this, It's not what you *don't* know that is going to trip you up, it's what you know that isn't so. I believe that the first lady might possibly have been feigning helplessness, just a little bit. She already had concept art and visuals, so I think she'll be okay. But someone might truly be so new that they know nothing about science fiction as a genre or how it works in the world. That person, the truly "new" person, might not realize that the second lady, no matter how assured she seems to be that she's passing on vital Wisdom, is wrong. So lets unwrap her backpack a little (to steal a metaphor). Stories about space pirates are Space Opera, generally. "Soft" science in science fiction usually refers to sociology or psychology, social "science". A story about space pirates might be "soft". But that's picking nits. The first big boo-boo is this: "not as popular *because* it is women

Synova

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