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tor.com on Steampunk Tales — In which I have a story.
How to tell a riveting story — (Thanks to
Portable DNA Purifier for Poor Countries — A new handheld device isolates DNA from human fluid without the use of electrical power. Like Bill Gibson said, you have “to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness”.
Hemingway as failed KGB spy? — Weird.
A Housing Market Built on Mud Takes Off, and Then Goes Thud — Ironic, sad and darkly funny story about housing in West Africa.
The invisible hand of god — Pace Adam Smith. (Snurched from Scrivener’s Error.)
Hannity again crops Obama’s comments abroad in order to smear him — Your Liberal Media, hard at work bending the truth for the GOP. And conservatives wonder why the rest of us see you as crazy and deceitful. Hannity isn’t some fringe figure, he’s a major spokesperson for your philosophy with an audience of millions.
?otD: What would Heinlein have titled a sequel to Friday?
7/10/2009
Body movement: n/a (overslept due to ongoing chest cold)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a (no scale at beach house)
Currently reading: The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
Posted: 5:01 am Fri July 10 2009 |
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tetar
July 10th, 2009 at 9:33 amRe: Hemingway, the article and apparently the content of the book cited in it are weak. Sounds more like he shined on some importunate assholes on both sides of a ridiculous situation.
Re: RAH’s sequel to Friday? He’d have called it Friday Knight and set it in Camelot, a sentient space ship with an Electra complex.
tetar
July 10th, 2009 at 9:38 amIncidentally, J. Edgar Hoover was desperate to prove Hemingway a Russian spy and Hemingway delighted in teasing and thwarting Hoover, so shining on the Soviet agents would have been in character. All this back-biting and second-guessing is as gossipy and useless as any other celebrity tabloidism. Remember the year they proved Hemingway was gay by writing a Fruedian bio that managed completely to miss the fact that Hemingway defined courage as Grace Under Pressure and HAD A MOTHER NAMED GRACE. Etc.
Cora
July 10th, 2009 at 2:10 pmThis Fox News host not only smears Obama by omitting part of the interview, he also manages to smear the people who really brought down the Iron Curtain, i.e. the brave people in many Eastern European countries, whom Obama mentioned in his comment.
Okay, so Obama forgot Hungary (first country to literally get rid of the iron curtain) and East Germany, but at least he remembered that it was the people of Eastern Europe and not American presidents who ended the Cold War.