Comments on: Getting bookish on the Tuesday OPEN thread

By: Dan Casey

Dan Casey — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:43:16 +0000

Maloof, you asked for one, in the future, because I had never done so in the past (you alleged). I gave you 2 already written — and it’s still not enough! You’re just another conservative who’s grasp of the facts is — how shall we put this — about as solid as a bowl of jello.

By: Maloof

Maloof — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:19:45 +0000

Dan that’s great 2 articles in your 19-20 year career with the RT? Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back. I have only been reading the RT blogs for about 6 months and read the RT less and less. Congrats for actually learning to shoot. The handgun and rifle classes I teach require range time for certification.

By: nosaj

nosaj — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:40:15 +0000

Ron, the Clarke quote about morality and religion rings so true. That the two seem to be inextricably linked in today’s world is personally disappointing. I try very hard to conduct myself ethically and morally. When acquaintances discover that I am not particularly “religious,” they seem confused that I could demonstrate one without one without the other.

By the way, I think the first real book I read was “The World of Null-A” by A. E. Van Vogt, a lesser known by very good sci-fi author.

By: Dan Casey

Dan Casey — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:57:17 +0000

"Drunk Driver vs bashing gun ownership is not the same thing. Prove your not a hypocrite by running a positive article on guns and gun ownership? I have better chance of winning the power ball jack pot than reading that future article in the RT. Perhaps using your “post of the day”" Maloof, I don't recall ever bashing "gun ownership." Bashing silly rules that make concealed carry too easy is not bashing "gun ownership," fyi. Bashing guns in bars is not bashing gun ownership, fyi. I wrote a positive column about shooting guns in Oct. 2009. And the last thing I wrote about gun owners on this blog was earlier this year, and it was positive, too. Ooops! and oops! again. Spare us the sanctimony, eh? You're only making yourself look silly.

By: Maloof

Maloof — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:17:56 +0000

Warren, are you just trying to score points with Casey?

Drunk Driver vs bashing gun ownership is not the same thing. Prove your not a hypocrite by running a positive article on guns and gun ownership? I have better chance of winning the power ball jack pot than reading that future article in the RT. Perhaps using your “post of the day”

By: Ron May

Ron May — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:08:51 +0000

Gee, it appears that my quotes from Arthur Clarke stirred up some old memories among my fellow bloggers. Glad to be of assistance.

By: graycie

graycie — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:24:13 +0000

When I was 10, I had finished reading all of the mysteries in the kid section of the library. The next shelf was science fiction. I read Heinlein’s “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” and it was like the heavens opened onto things, places, and ideas I had never thought about before.It changed the way I saw the world . . . no . . . the universe.

By: Bill Perdue

Bill Perdue — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:03:56 +0000

Alfred, Yes, Asimov too!!

By: gdad

gdad — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:03:17 +0000

#40 Maloof, I own two bowling balls but I also criticize some of the ways the sport is run and the way the lanes I bowl on are kept up. Should I stop doing that?

By: Dan Casey

Dan Casey — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:37:40 +0000

I read a lot of Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov as a teenager. They will always be, in my mind, the seminal science fiction writers. Heinlein I would almost compare to the Shakespeare of the genre.

Later I graduated to Philip K. Dick and some others. Loved “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” (which became the movie Bladerunner and “A Scanner Darkly” which looked at the drug war from a science-fiction perspective.