News and opinion related to Robert A. Heinlein, the first grandmaster of science fiction
Church And State Revisited: The Story Of SmootHuffington Post, NY - 14 minutes agoMy favorite quote on the matter comes from the incomparable Robert A. Heinlein: "One man's religion is another man's belly laugh. …
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Robert Heinlein's future may be pastcalendarlive.com, CA - Dec 9, 2007But Robert A. Heinlein, the California-based science-fiction writer who stood over the midcentury decades like a colossus, casts a different kind of shadow …
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Robert Heinlein's future may be pastLos Angeles Times, CA - 15 hours agoBut Robert A. Heinlein, the California-based science-fiction writer who stood over the midcentury decades like a colossus, casts a different kind of shadow …
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This is what you do when you are a hack writer for the Los Angeles Times and you’ve been assigned to write something on the 100th anniversary of Robert Heinlein’s birth, and the fact that his archives are being places online: You fill the article with nothing but quotes from his critics. Heinlein can’t possibly be worth a damn because he was insufficiently liberal and politically correct.
Heinlein’s “The Menace from Earth” gets a mention in this New York Times blog post about whether the United States should return to the Moon or shoot for a Mars landing.
Personally, I don’t care … just PICK ONE and DO IT.
Franzi: Dancing around raising property taxesExplorer News, AZ - Dec 6, 2007… inherently wrong with property taxes. But here’s what someone once said: “There is no such thing as a fair tax†— Lazarus Long AKA Robert A. Heinlein.
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Heinlein is evoked here in a column abut property taxes:
There is nothing inherently wrong with property [tag]taxes[/tag].
But here’s what someone once said: “There is no such thing as a fair tax†— [tag]Lazarus Long[/tag] AKA Robert A. Heinlein.
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This video of a prototype [tag]powered armor[/tag] rig in use is just too cool to be believed. [tag]Juan Rico[/tag] from [tag]Starship Troopers[/tag] would approve. There’s no direct mention of Heinlein, but there ought to be.
Hat tip: Pinkerton Park.
San Diego Chargers vs. Tennesee TitansTitans Insider - Dec 4, 2007Is Vince healthy again? Or still that nagging injury? "Common Sense is a contradiction in terms, Sense is never Common". A great American, Robert A. Heinlein.
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Heinlein is used in a blogger’s argument against cutting [tag]gasoline taxes[/tag]:
In Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the author comes up with the concept of TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch). Dr. Paul, in his article for the Free Liberal, seems to ignore that concept. Gas and diesel taxes, however painful, go toward the building, maintenance and rebuilding of our highway infrastructure, along with any tolls enacted for the same purpose …
Cutting what is essentially a user fee for drivers (thus forcing the government to either borrow the money or raise taxes somewhere else) is hardly a libertarian solution.
[tags]Ron Paul,TANSTAAFL[/tags]
