# horton (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover horton. Page: Feed: --- ## [8/18/26 Ron Paul on the Iran War, the National Debt and Flock Cameras](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/81826-ron-paul-on-the-iran-war-the) _2026-08-19 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Read more ## [8/17/26 Dave DeCamp on Palestine, Iran, Somalia and the Risk of an American Nuclear Strike](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/81726-dave-decamp-on-palestine-iran) _2026-08-18 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Read more ## [8/14/26 Joe Kent on the Risk That US and Israeli Aggression Will Lead to Stateside Terrorism](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/81426-joe-kent-on-the-risk-that-us) _2026-08-16 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Read more ## [8/13/26 Robert Pape on How His Escalation Trap Model Stands Up to Recent History](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/81326-robert-pape-on-how-his-escalation) _2026-08-14 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Read more ## [8/11/26 Lindsey Snell on the Troubling New Regime in Syria](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/81126-lindsey-snell-on-the-troubling) _2026-08-13 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Read more ## [8/7/26 Glenn Greenwald on How American Politics is Changing](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/8726-glenn-greenwald-on-how-american) _2026-08-09 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Read more ## [Join the Antiwar Army](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/join-the-antiwar-army) _2026-08-08 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Learn everything you need to know to take on the War Party in your free time. Join the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom today. Use promocode SUMMERTIME to save 20 percent. ## [Join the Antiwar Army](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/join-the-antiwar-army) _2026-08-08 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Learn everything you need to know to take on the War Party in your free time. Join the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom today. Use promocode SUMMERTIME to save 20 percent. ## [8/5/26 Robert Murphy on Inflation and the Federal Reserve](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/8526-robert-murphy-on-inflation-and) _2026-08-08 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Read more ## [Provoked Episode 57.](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/provoked-episode-57) _2026-08-07 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Cooper Escapes Wildfires! ## [Fast, secure international transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CwwTL7wSHNtL) _2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_ Bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile wallet — low fees and real-time tracking ## [Provoked Episode 57.](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/provoked-episode-57) _2026-08-07 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Cooper Escapes Wildfires! ## [The Facts About Iran](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/the-facts-about-iran) _2026-08-05 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ A free preview of the Scott Horton Academy ## [The Facts About Iran](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/the-facts-about-iran) _2026-08-05 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ A free preview of the Scott Horton Academy ## [7/31/26 Jeff Deist on Ron Paul, Murray Rothbard and the Triumphs and Shortcomings of Austro-Libertarians](https://www.scotthortonshow.com/p/73126-jeff-deist-on-ron-paul-murray) _2026-08-04 · Scott Horton · The Scott Horton Show_ Read more ## [Answers to Early Women Science Fiction Writers Quiz](https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/07/answers-to-early-women-science-fiction.html) _2026-07-23 · Rich Horton · Strange at Ecbatan_ Here are the answers to the quiz I posted a couple of days ago. ( Here's the original quiz .) 1. One of the earliest women to hold major creative roles in television science fiction, D. C. Fontana followed the producer of The Lieutenant to a new franchise where she became a writer, story editor, and later associate producer, helping shape much of its early mythology. Name this franchise . STAR… ## [Quiz: Early Women Science Fiction Writers (etc.)](https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/07/quiz-early-women-science-fiction.html) _2026-07-21 · Rich Horton · Strange at Ecbatan_ As I do many years, I created a quiz for the online trivia league I play in (Learned League.) This year the subject was "Early Women Science Fiction Writers" -- generally focussing on writers who started before 1950, but with a couple questions about editors, TV writers, and even fictional characters, and with a couple questions leaking into the 1950s and even 1960s. The format of the quiz is 12… ## [A recent novella: Making History, by K. J. Parker](https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-recent-novella-making-history-by-k-j.html) _2026-07-16 · Rich Horton · Strange at Ecbatan_ Making History, by K. J. Parker a review by Rich Horton K. J. Parker's latest novella is Making History , from 2025. Parker is a very enjoyable writer, either under his real name (Tom Holt) or Parker pseudonym. His work is almost always comic, but the tone varies, with the Tom Holt stories being rather lighter, even daffier; while the Parker stories are profoundly cynical, and often verge on… ## [Hugo Ballot Thoughts, Best Novella (and links to the rest)](https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/06/hugo-ballot-thoughts-best-novella-and.html) _2026-06-21 · Rich Horton · Strange at Ecbatan_ Here are links to my reviews of all the Hugo nominated novellas. In what I think is not a terribly strong shortlist, I have a clear first place vote, a clear last place vote, and four stories in the middle. The list below is my current planned ballot. Each title is linked to my review. The River Has Roots , by Amal El-Mohtar Cinder House , by Freya Marske What Stalks the Deep , by T. Kingfisher… ## [Reviewing the Hugo Nominees for Best Novel: 2026](https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/06/reviewing-hugo-nominees-for-best-novel.html) _2026-06-12 · Rich Horton · Strange at Ecbatan_ Here are the my looks at the six novels on the shortlist for the 2026 Hugo for Best Novel. They are listed in my order of preference, and I will say that I consider the first on the list to be by far the best book on the shortlist. The others are all good novels, and to be honest my ordering of them is my best thoughts today -- but they are all close. The Everlasting, however, is on another level.… ## [Retold Review: Travel Arrangements, by M. John Harrison](https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/06/retold-review-travel-arrangements-by-m.html) _2026-06-05 · Rich Horton · Strange at Ecbatan_ Here's another review taken from SF Site. I wrote it in 2000. Retold Review: Travel Arrangements , by M. John Harrison by Rich Horton M. John Harrison recently won the Richard Evans Award (named after the near-legendary figure of UK publishing who died a couple of years ago), given to the author who has contributed significantly to the SF genre without concomitant commercial success. In other… ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FqQpgVtxZGuH) _2026-06-05 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Remediated Review: Malignos, by Richard Calder](https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/05/remediated-review-malignos-by-richard.html) _2026-05-31 · Rich Horton · Strange at Ecbatan_ Here's another review that had been lost in the ether since SF Site disappeared. This one is from 2000. Remediated Review: Malignos , by Richard Calder Malignos is an entertaining and baroque work, with a wonderfully imagined "journey to the centre of the Earth" as its centrepiece. It is full of action, full of weird landscapes, full of unusual characters, and it is fast-moving to boot. Definitely… ## [Revived Review: Future on Ice, edited by Orson Scott Card](https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/05/revived-review-future-on-ice-edited-by.html) _2026-05-25 · Rich Horton · Strange at Ecbatan_ Orson Scott Card's reputation has taken a rather well-deserved hit over the past few decades in great part because of his repellent views about homosexuality, but also because the quality of his writing has not quite held up in recent years. As for the first, well, his views are truly repellent. As for the latter -- all I can say is that has happened to many writers over the years, and it should… ## [Reinstituted Review: The Leaky Establishment, by David Langford](https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/05/reinstituted-review-leaky-establishment.html) _2026-05-17 · Rich Horton · Strange at Ecbatan_ This is another review I did for SF Site, and thus am recovering after that wonderful pioneering website went dark. As ever, I note that it's about a quarter century old, and I haven't updated the references within the review -- so I note for example that the "new English small press" Big Engine has, alas, long been defunct -- it was a brave effort (led by Ben Jeapes) but it's cruel world out… ## [Repaired SF Site Review: Strange Trades, by Paul Di Filippo](https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/05/repaired-sf-site-review-strange-trades.html) _2026-05-08 · Rich Horton · Strange at Ecbatan_ Here's another review risen from the ashes of SF Site. The review itself didn't really need "repair" -- but I'm posting it in part to comfort (?) the author of Strange Trades , who will soon be in possession of a brand new hip. Get well quick, Paul! Repaired SF Site Review: Strange Trades , by Paul Di Filippo a review by Rich Horton Strange Trades , Paul Di Filippo's fifth collection of short… ## ["admin," morbid](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/admin-morbid/) _2026-01-26 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ If you're reading this, either in your inbox or on ghost dot io, you likely know that Kaleb Horton died on September 26, 2025. The loss—of talent, curiosity, empathy, and a singular unmistakable inimitable voice—cannot be measured. As his estranged wife turned legal widow ## [Army Man: America's Only Magazine.](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/army-man-americas-only-magazine/) _2025-06-30 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ A note from the editor: We offer our sincere apologies for taking a brief hiatus from this newsletter while Kaleb “Spike” Horton recovered from injuries sustained during an altercation that forced him to run off the edge of a cliff. He quickly realized the regrettable impossibility of not ## [Shameless Promo: I Have an Article in a Magazine and Unfortunately You Are Legally Required to Read It](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/shameless-promo-i-have-an-article-in-a-magazine-and-unfortunately-you-are-legally-required-to-read-it/) _2025-04-09 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ Preface: I just found out about this weird new website called 12ft.io that "bypasses paywalls," whatever that means. Anyway, this is what I spent the last half of 2024 working on: it's a feature for a new F1 lifestyle magazine called Esses . While it' ## [walking through los angeles when the crows are screaming and going through your garbage](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/walking-through-los-angeles-when-the-crows-are-screaming-and-going-through-your-garbage/) _2025-03-28 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ I’m going full nomad lately; while I still have a place to sleep in Los Angeles, I should see more interesting sights than the same few chunks of Burbank I turned into a routine through complacency. I’ll just point the car somewhere, go to a new ## [Going Down The Road Feeling Bad](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/going-down-the-road-feeling-bad/) _2025-03-18 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ Apologies for the sporadic posts lately. Trying to get my groove back. I’ll just tell you what’s on my mind, rip the Band-Aid off, because it’s all I know how to do and right now I don’t have any other options. ## [On The Comedy Store](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/on/) _2025-03-09 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ I’ve been away too long, and not by choice. Turning my life into something recognizable in spite of being broke and brokenhearted has been a 24 hour a day job lately, and it hasn’t even worked, which is devastating and definitely somebody else’s fault. ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OeRw92bupjCW) _2025-03-09 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [The Only Good Shows Ever On Television](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-only-good-shows-ever-on-television/) _2025-02-15 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ I was reading a list in Variety, one of those lunch break lists where you’re chewing your sandwich and see some faces you recognize and some words underneath that make you think “huh, that’s wrong” and then you finish your sandwich and throw away ## [Good Lord, I Found an Episode of Art Bell with Merle Haggard](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/good-lord-i-found-an-episode-of-art-bell-with-merle-haggard/) _2025-02-14 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ This sounds like a parody of something I would post specifically. You’re completely right. Spiritually, I made it up. But it’s real somehow: I found an episode of Coast to Coast AM where Art Bell interviews Merle Haggard . And that undersells it. Merle sits in for ## [From The Archives: Merle Haggard, Son of Bakersfield](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/from-the-archives-merle-haggard-son-of-bakersfield/) _2025-02-05 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ Note: I wrote a bunch of stuff before posting the actual article. You know, like recipe sites, except I heard some of those guys make money. So just scroll down a thousand words for the actual thing you clicked on. Which reminds me, consider a paid subscription if you like ## [2025, So Far](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/) _2025-02-01 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that are ## [Death Is Just A Change](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-just-a-change/) _2025-01-21 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ David Lynch has gone on to whatever the next place is. I’m very sad about it; it came at a hard time for the city of Los Angeles, a place he dearly loved, and it’s hard not to think his change of consciousness, which we kinda ## [The Last American Band](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-last-american-band/) _2024-12-31 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ Honest to goodness The bars weren’t open this morning They must have been voting For a new president or something X is calling it quits. They’re my favorite band ever, so it’s hard to say that and harder still to wrap my head around ## [Bogus Holiday Post: Good Song Titles](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/bogus-holiday-post-good-song-titles/) _2024-12-21 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ It’s Christmastime, which means it’s time for people who make posts on the computer to list things with a little preamble you slammed out in five minutes. It’s an actual time-honored tradition I like, because it’s so easy to list things, ## [Writing About Writing](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/writing-about-writing/) _2024-12-10 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ People have been asking me for writing advice a lot lately. All I really have to say is just start typing until you’re done, and make sure none of what you’re typing is bullshit. The first part takes until whenever your deadline is, and the second ## [Really Smooth Music](https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/really-smooth-music/) _2024-12-01 · Kaleb Horton · Kaleb Horton_ I’m in the home stretch of an assignment, and I should be doing that, but last night I saw a documentary that wound up being so specifically related to my assignment that I can confidently claim this is a rehearsal. I saw the new Yacht Rock documentary on