Robert Kroese
@robkroese
Founder of http://BasedCon.com and author of 35 novels. http://badnovelist.com
OK, time for a hiatus from Twitter until I catch up on my writing. See you sometime!
I empathize because the first part of the story is basically mine. Maybe if the Mercury books had been huge bestsellers, I'd be Stephen Colbert right now. Middling success is sometimes a good thing!
Here's my take on Colbert: he was originally a genuine conservative Christian. He found that he could get laughs by slightly exaggerating his actual beliefs. The act worked because he was affectionately lampooning people like himself. The dissonance of getting approval for…
I genuinely don't know what to make of this argument. It's the Basic Instinct defense, where never in a million years would Sharon Stone's character write a novel about killing someone with an icepick if she had killed someone with an icepick. It's kind of convincing, and yet....
Once more about Epstein... Since the latest outburst in The Discourse I have read up more on Epstein, particularly from people who believe Epstein was an intelligence asset (I listened to @esaagar on the Andrew Schulz podcast), because I always want to hear the steelman case…
Bring back Jericho!
CBS cancels shows all the time and ignores fans' writing in or doing petitions. If they actually listened, we would still have dozens of shows still on CBS going back decades.
Weird how the threshold for proving a conspiracy has ratcheted up recently
If any of the people pushing the Trump/Tulsi Obama conspiracy sat down for an interview with a non-MAGA influencer, the whole thing would fall apart in 5 minutes.
Sorry, that's correct!
Edmund Fitzgerald was built in 1958. It sank in 1975.
ALL IS FORGIVEN
🚨NEW: EPA Director Lee Zeldin ENDS the ridiculous regulations that made gas cans completely useless in America for literally no reason. These small pointless regulations have grown for decades with never ending government control over even the smallest parts of American’s…
You can really tell how much Colbert spoke truth to power by how desperate power is to make sure he stays on the air
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That's the remarkable part. He didn't
Why did he give it a machete, though.
Similar experience with "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," which I'd thought was a remake of an old song about a shipwreck that happened in the 19th century (song first recorded in 1976, about a shipwreck in 1958)
I remember trying to explain the name "legionnaires' disease" to a millennial who had never heard of it. I was like, "We learned about it in history class, there was this big convention in the 30s or something where everybody got sick." Looked it up later: it happened in 1977
I was in the hospital today and, as always, it brought back painful memories of the hardest two years of my life. I'm not talking about the years at the turn of the millennium when I discovered and dealt with my brain tumors, and adjusted to life as a hearing-impaired guy. I'm…