by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 6, 2013 | Blog
If you want to understand why President Obama is holding so firm and refusing to negotiate, especially over raising the debt ceiling you can find many of the answer in this terrific article by Jonathan Chait in the New Yorker. The Shutdown Prophet We also have a President who is a Constitutional scholar and actually understands the document and how the three branches of government are supposed to work as opposed to the Tea Party Republicans who profess to love the document, but seem to have...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 30, 2013 | Blog
Is it a lack of empathy? An inability to ever put yourself in another person’s place? Fear? I’m trying to understand the actions of the Republican party. The food stamp vote was breathtaking in its pettiness and cruelty. Yes, there are a few cheaters, but the majority of people on food assistance are children. You’re going to take food out of the mouths of hungry children? Really? The other large block of people are the elderly. Talk about letting Granny die. And...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 17, 2013 | Blog
As some of you may know I had major surgery last week. There was a strong possibility that I had cancer and the only way to be sure (an attempt to do a biopsy had failed) was to remove the offending organ from the body. I spent a night in the hospital, and I have very good insurance through the Writer’s Guild of America. But I started getting letters already from the insurance company trying to weasel out of covering me. I’m grateful I’ve got what I have, and that I have...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog
Oh Holy Fuck! If this works the world changes. Go and check this out. Skunk Works Fusion
by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 15, 2013 | Blog
My friend Eric Kelley came out to N.M. to visit and to attend Bubonicon. He’s a very fine writer, but also a gaming geek and fellow Mass Effect fanatic. He’s the Garrus to my Shepard, and a real BFF. While he was visiting he played through part of Citadel and that spawned an interesting discussion and Google search to compare notes on the romances we had selected. Eric romanced Ashley, and said that there is very little interaction with her aboard the Normandy. She holds...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 15, 2013 | Blog
I know, I know. I’ve been a real stranger at my own blog. Blame it on the surgery and trying to work while recovering from said surgery. If I’m going to write it ought to be on a book that is due February first and a proposal for a new space opera series. I’ve also got a graphic novel to write, but that has to wait a bit. Certainly until the artist has been hired. I want to work closely with the artist while I’m writing the book. What have I been up to other than...
