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The Editor’s Notes
Notes on reading of stuff that I read.
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Letters to the Editor
from L. Neil Smith, Paul Bonneau, and A.X. Perez
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Never Again Again
by L. Neil Smith
I may not get around very much these days. I may not see
and hear everything that’s going on. But in all of the “news” coverage of
the vicious attacks on Jewish people in the streets, lately, or even in
their own homes at Chanukah, there has been a highly conspicuous absence
of one vital concept. Forget all of the mindless blather about “hate”.
Hate is a ghost. It’s an immortal ghost. Trying to fight hate is like
trying to nail Jell-o to a wall. After all of the empty, futile moaning
and groaning on TV, what we have here is a practical problem that can only
be solved by practical means.
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Welcome To the Year of Go Big or Go Home!
by Sarah A. Hoyt
This morning I’m taking the very unusual step of
doing identical blogging here and at Mad Genius Club. Mostly because I
think what I woke up thinking is important in different ways for the
different audiences. Just be aware the posts are identical, but the
discussion will probably be different, so you might consider peeping over
at MGC sometimes. Oh, and yeah, I wasn’t going to blog, but I woke up
going “Oh, duh!” and I had to share. And, oh, yeah, happy New Year.
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Chapters 9, 10, & 11
by Jim Davidson
Mary Morris woke up. Through the window she could
see it was still dark outside. On the desk the rapist's laptop was open
and displaying an email client. From his snores, the man who had asked her
to call him Jon was sleeping soundly.
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The Fallacy of “Hate Speech”
by Nic Leobold
All speech is entirely subjective, not objective,
especially because speech, in and of itself, exists solely on a cerebral
and conceptual and holistic level, and thus contains all aspects of the
Creative and Metaphor and Vision-Illusion characteristics; at least for
speech independent of physical action, only in the linguistic or spoken form.
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Virginians Might Use the Constitutions
by Paul Bonneau
I have not been reticent in the past, about the
uselessness of constitutions. After all, they don’t seem to do anything,
nor to limit government at all. When you can’t even bring them up while
arguing a court case, how worthless is that? Not only that; they seem to
have little true legitimacy, as Lysander Spooner has pointed out.
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Dear Future Americans
by Harding McFadden
You don’t know me, but given my two children, and how
many young’uns they’re likely to have, and so on and so on, down through
the generations, it’s just as likely that if you’re reading this a hundred
generations on as not that I’m one of your progenitors. So, for the sake
of clarity, and to tweak my own already inflated sense of worth, you can
call me Gran’pa Harry. You can probably thank me for the gray hair and I’d
like to take some credit for your general disdain toward authority in all
of its forms. For your smarts, good looks, and incredible grit you can
thank your 100-generations removed grandmother. She’s a peach.
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Some thoughts on politics in anime and Japanese literature, with a focus
on two specific series
by T.J. Mason
I suppose I must confess that I caught the anime
(and related Japanese culture, such as their comics ("manga")
and serial novella ("light novels") bug from my son a few years
ago. There are a couple that I have become very interested in, and on
consideration much of my interest is in the political systems they discuss
and the diplomatic and military combat within those systems. Both are
arguably in the much-lampooned "high school harem" genre, but
neither pushes the limits on "fanservice (though there is some),
neither is significantly risqué, and both are reasonably accessible to any
science fiction / fantasy fan. In both cases, "teased" (rather
than spoiled) by the posting at the infamous tvtropes.org web site, I have
moved on from the anime to the original novel series and have consumed
most of the story presently available in English translation (from Amazon,
some in electronic form, some in hard copy).
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Workplace Economics
by Sean Gangol
Not too long ago, I saw an episode of Tucker Carlson,
where he berated Amazon for not paying their workers a decent wage. Those
who aren’t regular watchers of Tucker Carlson will say that the man has
gone far left. The truth is that Carlson is calling out Amazon because the
left seems to be giving this company a free pass for the way they treat
their workers since its CEO, Jeff Bezos, that happens to support the same
progressive policies that they believe in. He says that if a company like
Wal-Mart can be called out for underpaying its workers than Amazon
certainly deserves the same treatment. I certainly agree that one of the
many hypocrisies of the left is that they claim that they want to protect
consumers and workers from companies that have questionable business
practices, yet they always give so-called progressive companies, such as
Google, Facebook and even Apple a free pass. While I am a believer in free
markets, I am not naïve enough to believe that every company is going to
be on the up and up. If you feel that a company is acting immoral, then it
is your right and duty to call that company out. Though I will say that I
wish Tucker would have been more specific about Amazon’s wage system
instead of giving us antidotal accounts about how certain workers have to
sleep in their cars due to their low wages.
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Is Trump Nuts? Does it Matter?
by L. Reichard White
So, Mr. Trump explained his administration’s
assassination of Iranian General, war hero, respected statesman and Church
Elder Qasem Soleimani—and the nine other victims, including a top Iraqi
military commander—this way: "We took action last night to stop a
war. We did not take action to start a war." Maybe Mr. Trump
doesn’t remember how the 9/11 attacks solidified the American people
behind Bush Jr. and propelled him from a lack-luster PresideNT with low
popularity to a 90%-plus approval rating, literally over-night?
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