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written 91 years ago by h l mencken in his blistering essay in memoriam w j b a vulgar and common man a cad undiluted he is ignorant bigoted self seeking blatant and dishonest a poor clod like those around him deluded by a childish theology full of an almost pathological hatred of all learning all human dignity all beauty all fine and noble things he is a peasant come home to the dung pile share this share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in bullshit donald trump lies mencken politics tagged bullshit c vann woodward donald trump hofstadter mencken nixon paranoid style in american politics politics strange career of jim crow leave a comment the best books i read this year fiction posted on december 12 2015 by constantine von hoffman the one thing all these books have in common is they surprised me they all told me stories i had never encountered before also the fate of the world is almost never at stake fotw is hack it is worse than cliché if your book requires fotw to make it interesting or gripping then you are doing something wrong ps if you want plot summaries you ve come to the wrong place not sure how i came across europe in autumn by dave hutchinson but i am so glad i did it is a spy dystopia novel set in a very near future when europe has dissolved into many city states and even some neighborhood states this novel has a strangeness akin to the great slavic and semitic writers of the fantastic kafka i b singer gogol bulgakov combined with le carre or allen furst and yet it is firmly grounded in a world i understand this is a book that i have taken to proselytizing for it is far far too good to get lost in the tide of speculative fiction books a sequel europe at midnight came out earlier in november but only in the uk so far i ordered a copy from a uk bookseller and gladly paid the shipping charges it is every bit as good and strange as its predecessor hutchinson is also great fun to follow on twitter hutchinsondave the city of detroit was renamed in his honour but no one was told about it like europe in autumn robert jackson bennett s city of stairs has a great unexplained strangeness in it the book successfully combines noir and fantasy something which many writers have tried to do but very very few have succeeded stairs is nothing i had read before original and surprising unfortunately the just published sequel city of blades isn t nearly as good stairs indicates and implies things letting the reader fill in the blanks blades doesn t everything is explained which kills the wonderful strangeness however blades seems to be the exception in bennett s writing this year i also read his horror novel american elsewhere is every bit as good as stairs and totally different from it i don t read much horror but bennet has got am looking forward to reading his first novel mr shivers my friend david durand tipped me to nick harkaway earlier this year and i quickly read all three of his published novels because he is an excellent writer his first two the gone away world angelmaker are very good angelmaker is a truly funny crime book however neither prepared me for his latest novel tigerman which is superb it is set on a fictitious island nation in the arabian sea a former british colony and the time is roughly now the setting is so vivid it reminds me of jan morris great novel hav which also made real a fictitious nation the story itself is reminiscent of graham greene s novels of life in post imperial circumstances while still being totally original i think to say more would spoil it i urge you to read it i never thought i would have any interest in a time travel book again then i read the first fifteen lives of harry august by claire north a pen name of catherine webb this is nothing i have read before the plot the ideas and the characters are all smart and unexpected the only thing that is in any way even slightly similar is kim stanley robinson s the years of rice and salt which is sui generis among his novels even there the similarity is more a distant echo than anything else i will read anything ms north webb writes up to and including a grocery list guy gavriel kay is a renowned and well known fantasy writer prior to this year i had tried to read some of his best known books and couldn t get into them fortunately i didn t remember that when i picked up under heaven and then river of stars these two books are fantasy retellings of events from chinese history they take place in an ancient china like land where magic exists these books have a depth and richness i didn t find in his other works it may be because kay is able to draw on the all the sources and stories about this period or it may be some other reason i don t know or care i do know that these are wonder filled and wonderful books like the first fifteen lives of harry august emily st john mandel s station eleven does something new with a heavily used standard science fiction idea in this case it is life in the post apocalyptic world she removes the exoticism which is usually the basis for these stories this makes the world and people in it seem very normal which only heightens the impact of what they are going through this is a book i would give to someone who says they never s f it is very literary in the best sense of the word a finalist for this year s national book award in fact it is literary enough that i expect it will somehow not get trapped by the idiotic genre designation that seems to prevent otherwise sensible people from reading certain books paolo bacigalupi is the author of the windup girl if you haven t read it then go right now and do so don t worry i ll wait jeopardy theme song as a week or so passes see i told you so anyway this year he published the water knife and it deservedly got a lot of attention it s set in an america that has fractured as the water has dried up it s a fine book and manages to make the legal end of a dispute over water rights fascinating greg bear war dogs a stranger came to visit and brought many wondrous gifts and then the stranger left rapidly because the bad guys maybe have shown up and are approaching earth we think jeff vandermeer southern reaches trilogy annihilation authority acceptance these could be classified as horror but really they are novels of weird dread it s very hard to overstate how good they are kathleen ann goonan in war times i m just going to steal this goonan weaves experimental jazz particle physics and biochemistry into a compelling adventure through alternate universes all that and world war ii too jo walton farthing small change 1 walton author of the great among others read it before you read this they aren t related to each other it s just that among others is a masterpiece takes on the what if the nazis had conquered england story and wins she does this by doing what great writers do focusing on the people not the plot ann leckie ancillary sword begin with ancillary justice the first novel in this series which won a whole bunch of awards then read sword which won a fair number as well and then do what i m about to do and read the third volume ancillary mercy leckie has taken a key idea from the late iain m bank s culture series the existence of giant minds consciousness which run starships and made it smaller she makes them human and subject to the same baffling emotions the rest of us go through ben h winters the last policeman trilogy the world is about to be destroyed by a comet and everyone already knows it so why is this cop investigating a murder james s a corey cibola burn this series is the best space opera being written today big fun action action action and with enough emotional depth that you don t have to think of it as a guilty pleasure charles stross rule 34 there s something in the air or water or something in scotland great sf writers seem to be everywhere iain banks ken macleod and charlie stross to name just a few rule 34 is a police procedural set in a near future the protagonist is head of the innovative crimes investigation unit otherwise known as the rule 34 squad which monitors the internet for potential criminal activity analyzing trends in the extreme fringes of explicit content you can also pretty much read anything by stross and at its worst it will be interesting and smart ken macleod the execution channel another near future story this one is about espionage it s filled with all the things you want from a good spy novel betrayal emotional and political confusion and great atmosphere the execution channel where various groups broadcast the executions of captives plays a small role in the plot but is a constant darkness throughout the book this was written in 2007 and nails a significant part of the world in 2015 i also recommend his novel the sky road which is a wonderful over the top trippy comic railroad story carol emshwiller the secret city emshwiller is a far too little known writer i think this is because she mostly writes short stories which don t get the same attention as novels and because her books have all been published by small companies she has won about every award that can be won and should have been designated a national treasure long ago secret city is one of her novels it is about a mysterious enclave protecting a lost culture a hidden city in the wilderness where stranded aliens struggle to preserve their fragile society hoping for a better life many have fled the secret city in favor of trying to survive in the harsh human world others remain concealed living out a fading memory in hope of deliverance graphic novels frank m young the carter family don t forget this song the real lives and times of the people who along with jimmy rodgers invented what today we call country music top notch unbeatable squirrel girl volume 1 this is the best smartest funniest comic book i have read since cerebus sg is part of the marvel universe and makes fun of it and every other comic book trope idea and stereotype she is a mutant as in the x men and why is a mixed gender group called the x men anyway one of sg s great questions with the powers of yes a squirrel her confrontation with galactus destroyer of worlds had me laughing out loud even after several re reads share this share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in marketing leave a comment a brief introduction to the u s military its structure size and cost posted on november 16 2015 by constantine von hoffman the military is composed of four 1 different services army navy marines and air force the army primarily handles war on the ground the navy on the sea the marines which are responsible for amphibious warfare and the air force which is self explanatory there is a lot of overlap in what each service does all of them have their own air forces intelligence services boats and ground troops the bulk of the air force s combat ground troops are responsible for defense of air bases it also has special forces units the navy s ground troops are primarily the marine corps although it too has special forces units most famously the seal 2 teams like the one which killed osama bin laden the military is subject to civilian control while the president is the commander in chief the department of defense 3 is directly responsible for overseeing the military and is run by the secretary of defense under him are the secretaries of the navy army and air force which are responsible for oversight of those services at the top of the military command structure are the chiefs of staff for the army and air force the chief of naval operations and the commandant of the marine corps they also serve as the joint chiefs of staff the committee gives advice on military matters to the president the secretary of defense the homeland security council and the national security council they all have the top rank in their respective services for the army air force and marines that is a general and for the navy it is an admiral people in the military serve as either officers or enlisted personnel 4 in simple terms enlisted personnel have to do things while officers have to make sure things get done all officers outrank and may give orders to all enlisted men and women officers are a little like the executives at a company in that they supervise and come up with plans for what is to be done if not always how to do it the chief difference is that officers are regularly required to do the same job as the enlisted for example a lieutenant which is the lowest grade of officer in the army air force or marines in command of ground troops in combat is also a fighter 5 and not merely there to supervise nearly 84 percent of military personnel are in the enlisted ranks and about 16 percent are officers i just 16 are female while 84 are male in comparison 53 1 percent of the u s civilian work force 16 years old and over was female in 2012 the air force has the largest percentage of female service members 18 9 the marine corps has the smallest 7 0 of the 238 861 active duty officers 38 574 16 1 are female and 200 287 83 9 are male of the 1 149 167 active duty enlisted personnel 164 302 14 3 are female and 984 865 85 7 are male people who identify themselves as white represent the largest proportion of the total dod force 71 9 while black or african american members represent 16 2 percent asian american indian or alaska native and native hawaiian or other pacific islander members make up 3 5 percent 1 3 percent and 0 9 percent respectively over two percent 2 1 of members report themselves as multi racial overall 52 6 percent people serving in the military are married in comparison 53 5 percent of the civilian population was married according to the united states census approximately 44 percent 43 9 of active duty members have children overall active duty officers have a higher level of formal education than the civilian population as of 2012 the majority of officers 82 4 have a bachelor s or advanced degree while ionly 30 9 percent of the u s population age 25 and over did most active duty enlisted members have at least a high school diploma 98 9 which is higher than the percentage of the u s civilian population age 25 and over that had at least a high school diploma 87 6 in 2012 the active duty civilian spouse unemployment rate was 25 percent compared to 26 percent in 2010 size there are 1 477 000 people on active duty in the u s military that makes it the 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