The 2010 Hugo Award nominees, for the best science fiction or fantasy of the year, were announced Sunday. I'm not familiar with any of them, except for the three short stories that were also nominated for a Nebula Award. As you can see in my earlier post, I thought "Bridesicle" was very good, and "Non-Zero Probabilities" a reasonably decent fantasy, but I just can't understand the appeal of "Spar."
For comparison purposes, the current Nebula Award nominees are here. And a number of both nominees are, or will be, available free online. Scroll down the page here for convenient links.
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So, what lessons did we learn? And what does the future hold?
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Amid the all the hand-wringing, or wailing jeremiads, or triumphant op-eds
out there, *I’ll offer in this election post-mortem some perspectives that
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I love that they asked for “Public Defenders” (and they thought they could bring down our government), undercover FBI agent, sweet. Since their inception the Teaparty crowd (not a movement since they do have the numbers or clout) because they are haters not debaters or as others have dubbed them screamers not dreamers. The simpleton Tea baggers are the same whiners that were crying when the McCain/Bailin ticket lost. Now that their yelling and screaming failed to stop the health care debate and the bill from passing they are crying again. Lets face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. The Republicans are good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. Instead of participating in the health care debate of ideas the Republicans party turned inward to your old fashion obstructionist party. In my opinion the Republican Waterloo loss was caused by the party allowing a small portions (but very loud) of the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to take over their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots. The Teaparty crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and presidents like Hamiliton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believe that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now its about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. Although some Republicans are trying to distant themselves from this fringe most of them, having no game plan/ vision for our country, are just going along and fanning the flames. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits. But they now claim they have changed, come on, what sucker is going to believe that? All I can say to you is remember Waterloo.
You meant to comment on a different post, apparently, Montana. But no problem.
I must admit that I can't understand why rational conservatives generally seem to be going along with this lunacy from the fringe. Is regaining political power after their disastrous Bush Administration so important to them that the end justifies the means?
Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt would be aghast at the Republicans of today (admittedly, the latter left the GOP in 1912). Er, but note that Alexander Hamilton was never president. I'm sure that was just a poor choice of words on your part (his economic ideas were embraced by the early Republican Party), but I thought I'd point it out.
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