On the shootings in DC

 Well, here's a surprise. The shooter is a white supremacist nutball who had priors. 

To wit (from the New York Times): 

"Mr. von Brunn, whose latest address is believed to be in Eastern Maryland, was convicted in 1983 of trying to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board two years earlier. In that incident, he was captured by a guard in the board’s headquarters after running to the second floor, where the board was meeting. He was carrying a revolver, a hunting knife and a sawed-off shotgun in a shoulder bag, the police said."

Riiiiiiiight. 

And as usual, all the kook tics were out in force:

"Law enforcement officials and others who track conspiracy theorists have long been familiar with Mr. van Brunn, in part because he maintains a Web site. He has claimed variously to be a member of Mensa, the high-I.Q. fraternity; to have played varsity football at a Midwestern college, where he earned a degree in journalism; to have been a P.T. boat captain in World War II, and to have been victimized by a court system run by Jews and black people." 

Hmmmm. Boasting, waving military experience around like it serves as a defense against anything you did after
you marched your last klick, and paranoid conspiracy theories. Seems like he hit the trifecta.

Unfortunately, somebody died for the sake of this guy's neuroses.

This might not be the best example of "Christian morality" you can find

Note to Wiley Drake: if you're capable of reading this, even someone you'd consider a heathen knows that praying to any god for the President's death might be considered fairly sacrilegious - or worse.

Now reading

When Heaven Fell by William Barton.

As with his collaborations with Michael Capobianco, Iris and Fellow Traveller (both of which I've read), it's not a particularly nice book, but it's a good book. Not sure how he's going to tie it all up at the ending. Good.

Last read: Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom by David Wingrove. Buy it, or at least grab a library copy.

Whatevah' hoppen' to...

Mark Adlard?
 
I remember reading one of the "-face" novels (i.e., Interface, Volteface and Multiface), but he seems to be thoroughly out of print even though that particular book seemed full of appropriately bleak dystopian ideas a la seventies John Brunner and was a fairly good read despite the rather pat happy ending. Inquiring hive minds want to know more.