I read "Sergeant Chip" in F & SF a few weeks ago (I'm about 5 years behind, have a huge stack to read). It's really good; I never thought of it as a story for teens, but yes, it'll do well. For boys and girls.
I'd really like a GMail account, if only to see how it works. Late if at all adopter..
You'll notice the misprint was in a header. Back in the 70s when misprints were rife, it was assumed that it was the work of right-wing saboteurs. Or Situationists, if there's a difference. A small crew of subversive subs. It gave right-wingers an easy route to dismissing what was in the paper.
Have you seen the AOL poll? OK it's unscientific and self-selecting, but it's a hell of a lot of people (25000+) and it shows a Kerry landslide. Which I wouldn't have expected from AOL users.
> Dude, the guy was in the Bath party
Dear Lord, the old man was a 66-year-old geologist, a "a low-level Baath party official".
How many of these people would there be? Hundreds of thousands.
> It wasn't a hostage condition or kidnapping.
What would need to be changed for it to be a hostage condition, then?
> It's the same thing that happens in the US when a people lie to the police about a murderer living with them
c/murderer/66-year-old geologist/all
Now try again.
oh and c/lie/produce documentary proof of justifiable absence/all
There's no point mentioning representation, habeas corpus, communist stuff like that.
There is,however, a large bloc in the US, viz the charming Mr Lott's latest outpouring, who feel that any torture is fine as it's against the enemy. Do you think this feeling is strongly, imrpregnably, held by a lot of people?
Apropos the topic title, I have an old Analog where, I think it was P Schuyler Miller, was given "Whizz For Atoms", the last of the Molesworth tetralogy, to review. He sad it was incomprehensible madness. Couldn't handle it at all.
"a soldier in Gulf War I was still troubled but not sorry for having buldozed surrendering Iraqi troops because they couln't be burdened with prisoners..."
It was reported at the time, in UK papers at least. And there was a very good story in F & SF a couple of years ago referring to it, and to its repercussions.
"If we are such imperialists, how many territories have we acquired and how many hapless nations have come under our thumb from each successive wave of our "imperialism"?"
About 100. That's the number of countries where there are US military bases.
"Just try explaining to a teenager today why we get all misty-eyed about the 40th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America."
Tuesday was the 45th anniversary of the day the music died.
"The only big question remaining is What does Bush have on Tony Blair?"
It's something we've been pondering, believe me.
There's a good letter in today's "Independent" making the best case :-
Blair knew that GWB was going after Saddam, whether or not there was cause, and calculated that it would be better for the world, and no worse for the UK, if we joined in rather than stayed out. There would be problems staying out,given the policy of total engagement with the US. The collateral damage from being seen to have lied and sending our soldiers to their deaths didn't really arise before the war, because we couldn't conceive that Cheney and Rumsfeld could fuck it up so very badly.
Well, *I* liked the Bonzos reference.
It suddenly struck me that in hell-hole socialist Europe one can purchase a small motorcycle with a 50 c.c. engine for about 300 Euros, used. They cost nothing to run, and are ideal for a place like LA where the chances of riding into a snowdrift are slim. Do you not have them in the US?
> ...man, do I resent the insinuation BY ANYONE that this adventurist folly was EVER about "liberating Iraq
This is a SF-oriented blog? Of course it's about liberating Iraq. Same as William Tenn's "The Liberation of Earth". Who knew?
In England a conviction of 2 years or less is considered "spent" after a number of years spent out of trouble. Doesn't have to be declared on job applications except for "sensitive" jobs. And the minute you're released you can vote. I don't understand banning released prisoners from voting - it's saying they'll never be members of society again. Where's the sense in that? And in England anyway their votes would go to the most right-wing candidate, so it's even odder...
Churchill made pretty good morale-raising speeches. The armed forces in general admired his indomitability and he was an effective morale-raiser. They voted him out of office by a landslide when they came home, or asked their families to if they were still stuck out there. They didn't trust a Conservative with their jobs, schools, homes and welfare.
I see Bush is cutting military benefits....
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