Reflecting on legislators sneering that people with diabetes don’t deserve health insurance, coming out against emergency care for people with drug overdoses, declaring that people with debilitating medical conditions just need to get second and third jobs, mocking the very idea of pre-natal care, and so on, I am forced back to a conclusion that […]
Originally published on Facebook 26 June 2016. Look. Science fiction is one of the things I write. I publish some in ANALOG, a magazine where some of the stories hinge on the finer points of engineering. I understand that some of the folks plying this trade pride themselves on accuracy to multiple decimal points. But […]
This is not about me. I’m using my own career and my own reaction to praise as a handy-dandy example, but the words to follow are not to be taken as naked pleas for attention; honestly, they’re not. I am aware that the nature of the beast dictates that some who read the following will […]