Author, muser, moviegoer. Enthused by human potential; mortified by human behavior. Unquenchably curious, yet more resilient than cats. Tends to overwrite.
@tittyleds@FalchionHawk Tolkien has addressed "orc families" and implied they exist. There were no dead marshes; Isildur found a dead Numenorean and took his boots; I don't know why you would take internet rumor about spiders as anything more than conjecture.
@espinsegall Fear and peril is how fascists gain power. Fear of harm or fear of losing subscribers, it's all fear and it alters how you would normally present material. As a result, media is timid about conveying the news it should in the way it should.
@JaneMayerNYer Sometimes I wish billionaires would go found their own little dystopia instead of ruining everything else. Go try that Ayn Rand removing "pillars of industry" crap. It would be like allowing them to enter Douglas Adams' Total Perspective Vortex.