Wanna meet up at Worldcon?

We'll be attending LA Con IV, the 64th World Science Fiction Convention, aka Worldcon, in Anaheim, California from Wednesday through Sunday. We last went to a Worldcon back in 2002 in San Jose, and it was tons of fun. And you never know what's going to happen; I met Dan Wood on the street. I was walking from one venue to another, and Dan saw my convention badge and stopped me to say hello (I had recently given his first product, Watson, a favorable review in Macworld).

We're done with our book, and it's time to play. We're leaving the kid home with the cat. We'll be there the whole time, but if you can't get away for the whole con, they're selling one day and taster memberships. The latter is a three-hour membership for $20. So if there's a particular session that you really want to see, you can do it without committing to the whole price of the con.

Are you going to be there? Want to meet up? Let us know, and let's make it happen.

A note to cable news outlets

A pretty little white girl being murdered is news, but it is, and always has been, local news. It is not a national story; it is a local tragedy. A break in the case that happens nearly ten years after the murder is still not national news. It certainly does not merit wall-to-wall coverage, even in the dog days of mid-August. Unless such a murder happens in my community, I don't care. I have never cared. I will never care.

Most of the sane people in this country recognize this blanket coverage as the sick carny sideshow it is, and, like me, are repulsed. That's why we now get most of our news from the Web, because we think that you have failed your viewers and your profession. We can't trust your news judgement, because you consistently show none. So we have substituted our own.

The old murder case is absolutely not more important than a Federal judge's ruling that the President and his Administration is violating the laws and the Constitution of the United States. Yet the amount of time wasted on the story of the dead little girl dwarfs the story of the criminal President.

I wish you would all STFU about the old murder, and report the actual news of the day.