So Mike felt he had to jump in boots and all with this new article, and he used his own non-Anglo heritage to bolster his point.

He arrived every day with clocklike regularity.

There is also a strong draw on literature and film for ideas. Some steampunks will take a favorite character, such as Boba Fett, Alice, Dorothy, Professor Snape, or Sherlock Holmes, and “steampunk” him or her out by adding elements of leather (or faux leather), gears, clock parts, electricity, motors, and so on.

There is always a tendency, in the mainstream as much as the fringes, to blame real or imagined social problems on a folk devil.