How to get it right, or wrong, in writing period fiction.
All posts by Rand Simberg
How We Became Fat-Phobic
The message is finally getting out.
For decades, Americans have been “fat-phobic,” believing saturated fats to be one of the leading contributors to heart disease. Dr. Nina Teicholz, founder of The Nutrition Coalition, debunks this idea popularized by one scientist in the twentieth century.
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) September 25, 2025
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I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that Ancel Keys was an unwitting mass murderer.
Greta’s Flotilla
…has exposed the suicidal stupidity of Islamo Leftism.
That’s really been pretty obvious with all of the LGBT+ signs in support of Hamas.
Political Violence
No, despite media (and previous government-agency) lies, it’s not a “both sides” problem.
Tarlov can’t look forward to having to deal with Greg.
[Update a while later]
I can confirm that we on the right do not enjoy having conversations with our wives about what to do if we are murdered by a leftist terrorist assassin…which high level Dems are QUITE CLEARLY egging on. https://t.co/ZyVqs8oJ8h pic.twitter.com/2JwdwWvZiK
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) September 25, 2025
The Democrats’ March Into A Box Canyon
Better Late Than Never
Will Comey be indicted before the statute of limitations runs out? Because after that, it would be too late, and thus never.
Of course, there are other things that he could have been, and should be, indicted for. But this would be better than nothing.
BTW, sorry for the lull in posting. It’s been a busy week with plumbing (completely repiping the house).
The Murder Of Charlie Kirk
…was not a “George Floyd moment.”
The Climate Hysteria
Are we at a turning point?
We can hope.
Tucker, Candace, And Steve
“Both Sides”
No, it is not “both sides.”
It is worth noting that this is not especially incisive or contrarian analysis: everyone knows it. Everyone knows that the Left is the violent faction in American public life today. Everyone knows that shop windows were boarded up in November 2020 out of fear of the Left’s reaction to the election, not the Right’s. Everyone knows there is no threat to public order in response to the murder of Charlie Kirk as there was after the death of George Floyd. Everyone knows that a gathering of pro-Palestinians carries with it a high potential for violence, but a gathering of pro-Israel partisans does not. Everyone knows there is a national network of street fighters on the Left, not on the Right. Everyone knows that colleges have to worry about security for conservative events, not leftist ones.
Everyone knows.
To be fair, the media has kept people sufficiently in the dark about many of the depredations of the left that perhaps everyone doesn’t know, but it’s certainly true.
[Wednesday-morning update]
The media are congenitally incapable of properly covering left-wing violence.