If the governments of the world had been functioning correctly, they would have been the mutual aid groups that keeps us all safe and going. It’s only because they’re more interested in profit and protecting the powerful that we need to seek alternatives.

I would like to say that if the economy is so badly hurt when times get rough, maybe it isn’t something we ought to build our whole society upon.

RIP Gladys

I feel it would be appropriate to note on this site that my grandmother, Gladys Ryall, died earlier this week. She was 92 and was quite ready to go, but of course it is still sad to lose the last of my grandparents.

Here’s a story she told me one time: After she’d had fourteen children, she went to her priest to ask if it would be alright if she got her tubes tied. The priest, a Catholic priest, told her she had probably done her part for being fruitful and multiplying, so it would not be immoral. Then she went to her doctor and he told her that she was getting up in age and she probably shouldn’t bother because she was unlikely to have many more. She had four more children after that.

My robot character Gladys Blue, arguably the protagonist of Secret Government Robots, was of course named after her.

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