it's like a soap opera, where kids grow up in two years, rather than twenty

Reading Tom Clancy's Dead or Alive.

I remember now why I stopped reading his books. Because his female characters are one-dimensional, either mother/saints or whores.

And his personal politics shine through in his protagonists.

Also, there must have been some weird time-warp or something for Jack Ryan Jr to be an adult, given the amount of time accounted for since Executive Orders.

Finally, the Emir = Osama bin Laden casting? Lame. Either say you're writing about bin Laden or make up an actual fictional antagonist.


On the positive side, the cranberry muffins I made this morning turned out to be delicious. And Sasha's tires are rotated and oil changed for free, per Toyota's maintenance agreement.