[Pardon me for veering away from science fiction for a moment,but the following has a bit of writing and fiction involved in it. I don't usually get political, but I thought it was interesting.] Let’s give credit where credit is due. Sarah Palin, by herself, created the “Death Panels” as a work of fiction. Constantly [...]
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Sarah Palin’s Death Panels 1 comment
Inaugural Poem: Take Out Your Pencils. Begin. Leave a comment
I just finished watching the Inaugural Events on TV. Many things to talk about, but I want to use the words of the Inaugural Poet, Elizabeth Alexander, as a call to writers, and a call to Americans, to face the challenges we face in the world today. Her poem, Praise Song for the Day, was [...]
Bishop Robinson’s Prayer to Open the Inaugural Events 2 comments
Pardon my side trip from Science Fiction and Fantasy. But this is important. It’s unfortunate that HBO blacked out the opening prayer of Bishop Robinson, especially after so much controversy over Rick Warren’s selection to pray on Tuesday. Here’s the video. This was shot by Sarah Pulliam of Christianity Today. Christianity Today, in a really [...]
Shine Anthology, and Dreaming of a Better World 6 comments
In another post I talked about thinking positive about the future. I linked to an anthology, SHINE, open to writers, that wants to make the world a better place in the future–a vision of how we WILL get it right eventually. How decisions we make technologically, politically, personally will solve–or begin to solve–global crises we [...]
The State of the States:the Political Landscape (No. 2 in a series) 4 comments
Some surprises for me in Texas concerning the political landscape. You’d think that in Texas, things are pretty bleak for Obama. Or you might think a lot of things about the States when it comes to this presidential race. Two things surprised me. The NAS Ft. Worth military base sells books in the main exchange, [...]
Starting something new Leave a comment
Hey, I decided to try something different with a blog…a project that imagines a blog from the future. Check out “The Gore/Obama Ticket” page and follow the blog about what happens when Gore jumps into the race in March 2008.
