Prof. Ornery Talks Politics

The ornery ramblings of a former political science professor turned fiction author

Odd Prompts

Another week, another set of odd prompts. This is Week 37 for Odd Prompts and as […]

Remember who we are

In a comment over at According to Hoyt, I wrote the following: “I tried my best […]

Among the Living

Week 36 of Odd prompts gave me more fodder for the ongoing Cursebreaker story. Taking my […]

Evil good people

I was reading Sarah Hoyt’s post Smelling the Smoke, and the comments. It was brought up […]

Possession by a house?

Got some good writing done this week, including for the More Odds than Ends Week 35 […]

Visions of…what?

Yesterday was the first day of classes. For the last 20 years, I would have been […]

Panic and control

Get people to panic. Then tell them you can fix what’s causing the panic, if they’ll […]

Waves

This week prompt was a visual from Leigh Kimmel. It is titled “Wave Motion” and you […]

Ethics, health, presidents, & vice-presidents

I read a post in Legal Insurrection this morning discussing a Chris Cillizza/CNN piece suggesting that […]

Gargoyles

It’s been an off week or ten days. Not off in anything bad, just feeling off-kilter. […]