The Monday Morning Round Up

Well the Feds conjured another trillion out of thin air. Sooner or later the bill comes due. At some point there will be a financial catastrophe, the Treasury defaults, the currency crashes, hyper inflation arrives and we all run on the banks Frank Capra style. Right?  Just remember, America, it'll your fault. We come from that nice respectable wing of the GOP that tried for 25 years to convince Americans to tighten the belt a little, reduce spending, and payoff the debt. The Dems said we were starving children and throwing old people into the street, and you fell for it every time, America. Every time. Blame yourself. Our conscience is clear. As PJ O'Rourke once said, the Parliament of whores is us. You're goddamn right we're bitter.

Our GRU handlers in Moscow are off for the rest of this year and part of the next, so we have some extra time. We've found an online magazine that's interested in a piece from us, on culture not news, and we'll be working on that. If anyone can suggest other forums we're all ears.

We take it back. May 1st was an unrealistic goal for the publication of The Great Nuclear War of 1975. How's about July 1st? [There you go, leave yourself some wiggle room, bloody Yank tosser-Ed] Six months. We can do that, can't we?

On the World War 1990: The Final Storm front, our next step is the Soviet nuclear forces alert chapter. We already wrote their intro chapter. That's right, readers will see the Soviet version of NORAD go on alert, Soviet missile troops making preparations, and bombers scrambling. Hmmm, maybe one of those Soviet mobile missile crews, you know, like you see in Spies Like Us? You know, we haven't watched that in....20 years? It's never the wrong time for Soul Finger.

We dug through the basement book crates and found these:

No Jerry Pournelle, no Will the Writer. Those are the original books we read in the late 1980's. We haven't read them since the mid 1990s. Janissaries is high science fiction adventure, and this blog recommends the series in the strongest possible terms.  We found Pournelle's website in July of 2001, and looked for info on the final novel in the series. We'd periodically check back over the years. Mamelukes was published posthumously. We'll set aside some time and read these again soon.