What to say to a Conspiracy Theorist

Courtesy of Mike V.P. from an e-mail list I'm on, posted here so it'll be easy to find:

One of these days, I swear, one of these conspiracy nuts is going to provoke me to say:

"Yes, of course. You've found us out at last. You are the last person on the entire planet to figure this out; everyone else on Earth is a part of the conspiracy. Has anyone ever told you that you're a bit ... slow?"

I really need to remember this and use it sometime!

Baen Webscriptions Free Months

Somewhere around the end of the month, I buy the Webscription for three/four months out (for example, I bought Nov '03 somewhere between July 31, '03, and Aug 5, '03).

Baen Books has this nifty 'buy one, give one to a new customer' policy. If anyone has not received a Baen webscription before, and wants a free month, let me know! Your e-mail address has to not be in their database to get a free month. I'll take requests in the order they appear in my home inbox - sraun@fireopal.org.

First request gets choice of months - let me know if you don't want the other month. If you don't get a month this time, I put you on my request list, and you get first shot at the new months as they come out.

Here's what's coming up:

July 2006
Choosers of the Slain, by John Ringo
Destiny's Forge: A Man-Kzin Wars Novel, by Paul Chafe
Freedom, by Martin Harry Greenberg & Mark Tier
Kicking the Sacred Cow, by James P. Hogan
Siege Perilous, by Nigel Bennett & P. N. Elrod
The Two Faces of Tomorrow, by James P. Hogan

September 2006
Some Golden Harbor, by David Drake
Alpha, by Catherine Asaro
The Stardance Trilogy, by Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson
We Few, by David Weber & John Ringo
Very Bad Deaths, by Spider Robinson
Return to Rocheworld, by Robert L. Forward & Julie Forward