Curmudgeons Corner
Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.
Thursday, April 03, 2025
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Now also in audiobook
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025
President Trump’s campaign to excise Diversity Equity and Inclusion from the federal government has had some controversial effects on NASA messaging. According to Ars Technica, language referring to the “first woman and the first person of color” to walk on the moon has been removed from the Artemis program website.
In 1944, with the world convulsed with war, the Contessa Gabriella Doria haunts the piazzas and canals of Venice. Few people know that she is not only an agent for Britain’s MI6 but that she is also a 450 year old vampire. But one SS officer, Kurt Hesselman, knows and has vowed to destroy her, using the occult powers he was born with. Their battle will rage from Gabriella’s beloved Venice to occupied France, and hence to Great Britain on the eve of the largest sea borne invasion in history. The outcome of the war and the fate of the world will hang in the balance. Now also in audiobook.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
Now also in audiobook
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The Last Moonwalker – In the near future, as human explorers prepare to take the first voyage to the Moon in decades, Charles Gerald, the last Apollo Moonwalker, lends his advice to the crew of the expedition as he wrestles with his own legacy.
The Man from Mars: The Asteroid Mining Caper - Colin Fraser was the first man to walk on Mars as commander of the Ares. But little did he know that his greatest adventure would take place after he returned to Earth from the Red Planet. With further voyages of interplanetary exploration curtailed due to budget cuts, Fraser joined a private company that proposed to capture an asteroid and mine it for its almost limitless wealth. The only catch was that he would have to commit the first act of space piracy in history by stealing his old ship and using it to divert the asteroid named Daedalus.