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7/4/2009 3:36:24 PM
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Palin resigns
RandyBeck
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Thanks, Sparrow, for explaining what kind of person it is that hates Sarah Palin.
Along precisely those same lines, one of the Huffington Post's contributors reacted with this headline:
Palin Will Run In '12 on More Retardation Platform.
Oddly, a few of their readers took offense to that (can't imagine why; this is what they should expect over there), and the contributor posted a retraction. Fortunately, a blogger had seen it and posted a pic of the original headline at the bottom of this post. He notes that "Trig" is one of the keywords assigned. Swell bunch.
I hope she runs in '12 simply to irritate the leftbots. It'll be a tough time for her, though. She'll have to run on the economy, given that President Obama has so far been copying George W. Bush on national security issues.
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7/4/2009 3:32:31 PM
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I need opinions on a book cover design.
WPreston
Posts 365
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Aside from the issues raised by the others--the basics of the look, obscuring the name--I'd wonder which better suits the book's plot/tone, as the second looks more like a "relationship" story. Also, the guy looks way too much like Gary Shandling.
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7/4/2009 3:28:47 PM
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topic:
1955 - Merril vs Dikty
gdozois
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A number of the Old Guys tended to feature female protagonists. The action hero in a James H. Schmitz story was more often than not a woman. Heinlein didn't often feature women as his main protagonists, but his stuff often featured in secondary roles strong, smart, physically capable women who functioned at the top and in positions of authority in a man's world particularly in his YA novels. The Heinlein woman was often proficient and smart enough to serve as a starship captain or fix a nuclear reactor while being a dead shot and able to kill a man with a blow of either hand, and more than one woman has told me that the only positive female role models she could find in the science fiction of the day were Heinlein's female characters.
Of course, Heinlein then went on to blow it by writing about strong, smart female starship captains who were dead shots and could kill a man with a blow of either hand who could barely wait to met the Right Guy, abandon their professions, settle down, have lots of kids and become a housewife...Talk about mixed messages!
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7/4/2009 3:14:45 PM
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1955 - Merril vs Dikty
Dave_Truesdale
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What you just said, Gardner. Exactly. I was trying to come up with who they were, precisely, and was looking for the right word. Minor deities (or whatever) is as good a term as any. By the time I'd finished my post I entirely forgot that I hadn't mentioned the switching element.
StevenLP also listed Robert F. Young's "Jungle Doctor," which, a few months following my review of "Judgment Day," I wrote the following about "Jungle Doctor," titling my little review and commentary "When Jesus Was A Woman." It can be found here, from June of 2005: http://98.130.32.92/index.php/articles-columnsmenu-284/465-when-jesus-was-a-woman
I think it interesting that Young, way back in the 1950's, featured many a female as the protagonist of his stories.
edited by Dave_Truesdale on 7/4/2009
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7/4/2009 3:14:32 PM
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topic:
How I won a multi-book publishing contract.
natipal
Posts 320
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Congratulations Hugh!
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7/4/2009 3:11:23 PM
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topic:
Regional Recipes
natipal
Posts 320
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Tarrys Here Occasionally wrote:
"(Hey, Byron, how you doing up thar' in the north -- hot here -- you can cook noodles in the humidity in FL.)"
LOL!
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7/4/2009 3:07:53 PM
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July 4th Plans
gdozois
Posts 2308
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During the Bicentennial Celebration here in Philadelphia, the stage version of 1776 was shown over and over again for free, and of course all the friends who came down for the celebration wanted to see it, so I must have sat through it six times. It was years before I could bring myself to watch the movie version. Now, though, my ennui has worn off, and when I catch the movie on TV while channel surfing, I'll usually watch at least a few scenes of it. It's actually pretty good, and has an excellent cast.
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7/4/2009 3:00:35 PM
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1955 - Merril vs Dikty
gdozois
Posts 2308
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****SPOILER****
What really makes the story, though, is the fact that tomorrow they're going to SWITCH, and Mr. Good Guy is going to go out and commit small acts of evil while Mrs. Bad Guy is going to go out and commit small acts of good. There's a distinct supernatural smell about this couple, although they do nothing obvertly supernatural or fantastical, as though they're minor deities who help to keep the universe functioning. An even more unsettling implication is that good and evil are arbitrary, and even interchangable--as if God and the Devil could not only switch places, but periodically DO, and that it doesn't really make that much difference.
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7/4/2009 2:41:06 PM
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topic:
Transatlantic Spacetime Anomaly
dolphintornsea
Posts 198
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I've just realised I haven't been contributing to this thread, so here's a summary update:
August Asimov's arrived on July 2 (Cape Town, South Africa).
I haven't kept a note of when the other recent ones that I failed to report, arrived, but generally speaking they arrive on about the 28th day of the second month before the cover date. So if anybody is keeping a serious record, you could call the 28th the default date for the unreported ones.
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7/4/2009 2:07:29 PM
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topic:
A Thespian with Lesbians
Bill Moonroe
Posts 2531
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When I click on that link, all I get is some law office. Is this some kind of sting?
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7/4/2009 2:06:16 PM
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And, Wham, Bam, It's The July ASIMOV'S
John Thiel
Posts 1112
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Well, they do sometimes mean the author's private universe.
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7/4/2009 2:05:49 PM
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topic:
Making Sure My Website Functions Properly
Bill Moonroe
Posts 2531
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Luke,
Isn't the blonde Antonio Villaraigosa's secretary? Wow, talk about taking risks.
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7/4/2009 2:04:24 PM
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topic:
Blast The 'Cast
John Thiel
Posts 1112
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Well, I've ended my viewing day with "Third From the Sun", the aptly-titled Richard Matheson tale about two scientists and their families taking off for another world to avoid warfare doom. Serling opened it with some propaganda for the Twilight Zone, saying the title represents something that really exists, and adding that there's more than just him saying this. The episode opens with some excellent acting, which is somewhat rare for the Zone, and does credit to Matheson, who must have really appreciated watching his story brought to life this well, or anyway, into televised life on the Twilight Zone. At any rate, he hasn't had much to say about it since. I didn't regard watching it as any waste of my time--for one thing, it's from the old half hour days. I can't but think that Serling probably preferred his show being broadcast in black and white.
Anybody else have anything that struck them about the marathon? Or was everyone too busy with the Fourth to watch it?
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7/4/2009 1:59:13 PM
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July 4th Plans
Bill Moonroe
Posts 2531
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StevenLP wrote:
I shall be sharing sparing a thought for that noble patriot Benedict Arnold and a few ill ones for those detestable traitors George Washington, Benjamin Franklin & co.
This reminds me of my recipe for Patriot's Fruit Salad
1 part sliced & diced limes
As many pomegranite seeds as you can get
1/2 pound slivered metallic sodium
Mix thoroughly, wait for the flame to die down, then go to McDonald's.
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7/4/2009 1:57:02 PM
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A Thespian with Lesbians
Sparrow
Posts 832
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Ain't noth'in new under the sun.
And while it's under my roof, the pussy belongs to me... but as collateral she has my nuts (usually).
At anyrate, have fun.
Part of me is jealous, the other part is glad to be done with that past life.
Oh yeah, is there any way at all you could squeeze Marian into one of these group things?
edited by Sparrow on 7/4/2009
edited by Sparrow on 7/4/2009
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7/4/2009 1:48:09 PM
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topic:
Palin resigns
Sparrow
Posts 832
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ahhh, so now I'm a racist.
Sort of odd though, that I would by choice live downtown in a predominately black neighborhood,
have the same girlfriend pushing on fifteen years who is of mixed race (hispanic/black/white), and have
a child with her, and vote for a black man to be my President, and still find energy to be a racist.
Well, coming from a silly old white woman who I imagine doesn't have children, lives in an all white neighborbood,
and probably hasn't spread her legs for anything more substantial than an eight inch vibrator in the last ten years...
I'm not surprised.
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7/4/2009 1:39:00 PM
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Palin resigns
Fabrice Doublet
Posts 860
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So there's a Michael Jackson thread?. I was surprised there wasn't any and still can't find it.
Palin resigned for political reasons? So what? I don't like her but don't understand why the fuss?
Sanford got caught for adultery? So what? Someone said that you mustn't throw the first rock, unless you're perfect. (don't know the exact quote in english, in french it"s "Que celui qui n'a jamais péché jète la première pierre". I'm not without sin, so I'm saying "let him live".
Michael Jackson was a marvellous artist (especially in the 80's). He was also an imperfect man. But the Justice cleared him, so what is there to say, except to deplore his death.
And what is the problem with interracial dating????
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7/4/2009 1:28:59 PM
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Regional Recipes
Tarrys Here Occasionally
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Hi, Ruth, (up thar' in Michigan trying to cook in an RV And write, also)! This'l keep you and Mary busy in the long nights. Oh, buy an extra small Walmart fridge for the RV -- handy. (I have 3 fridges in my RV for salmon, etc.)
T
(Hey, Byron, how you doing up thar' in the north -- hot here -- you can cook noodles in the humidity in FL.)
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7/4/2009 1:25:48 PM
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Blast The 'Cast
John Thiel
Posts 1112
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Had a pipe, ate lunch, and turned on "I Sing the Body Electric". I'd never read this story, so it was interesting to see it telecast. I don't think Bradbury has written many robot stories, but he did write "Marionettes, Inc." This one is appropriately named after the Whitman poem because it concerns robots (or androids is what they are, but they call themselves robots, presumably for the sake of clarity) as part of a vast social spirit, fully adaptable into commerce with mankind. The story, which exemplifies this, has a lady robot replacing a family's dead wife & mother, being somewhat rejected at first but proving her worth. She describes her robot culture as superior to their human culture in many ways, and meanwhile provides the fix for their life situation. In the end she goes back to her valuable work elsewhere---but it leaves plenty of room for controversy. Where will life go? It's the same feeling the poem had. Serling returns with his one perpetually raised eyebrow inviting the audience to wonder about it, and calls the story a "fable", dismissing the idea that robots could ever substitute for family members with a piece of double-talk that suggests that they could but says otherwise, and guaranteeing that the fable has an actual moral significance. No waste of time, which can't be said for everything the Zone has presented.
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7/4/2009 1:25:46 PM
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July 4th Plans
Fabrice Doublet
Posts 860
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Happy July 4th! 
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