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Blogging and that ‘right-wing kook’ Heinlein

15th April 2006

At the risk of being accused of being too self-referential, I am linking to my own post about a blogging controversy in Orange County, Calif. There IS a Heinlein connection: The blogger uses the pseudonym “Jubal.”

According to the author of the column I commented upon: “The name Jubal is, significantly, drawn from Stranger in a Strange Land, the novel by sci-fi writer and right-wing kook Robert Heinlein.”

Charming. It lands the writer in the category of “uninformed.”

Still, one would think an anonymous blogger/Heinlein fan would choose “Simon Jester” as a pseudonym.

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