They’d reject a theocratic state, as it doesn’t work for their belief system. It would be antithetial.

Most of the commenters here have NO fucking idea what they are talking about.

“Congress really should pass a $2 per gallon tax on automobile fuel...”

Alyssa,

Assuming a pace of 5 mph, I could easily walk to work in a mere 12 hours!

5) A lot of the reason people commute is they can’t afford to live by their workplace.

Ban shipping items from the other side of the world that should be grown and produced in your own area first. Ban the disposable nature of out modern culture before taking my car. I don’t want to live in a giant, congested city in a high-rise building, crammed into mass transit whenever I need to go anywhere.

One of the undernoticed aspects of the more recent reductions in the United States’ carbon impact was the adoption of no-till farming throughout much of the nation. While solar and wind get the headlines, the shift to no-till famring and the use of fracking to shift to natural gas from coal account for the vast bulk…

Ah, the Family Of Blood. Best. Episode. EVER. Talk about emotional. Martha’s exit’s got nothing on that ep.

For this to be perfectly historically ironic, we need a British group to swoop and steal the treasure from both of them.

I too have been intent on focusing my child on Grover, Cookie Monster, and Bert & Ernie. It’s paying off; we’re now working on Fraggle Rock.

Gorbachev, His arms open. Reagan and Gorbachev at Tanagra.

Shaka, when the Berlin Wall fell.

I know it’s to push the book, but I think the headline should read that Jeff thinks world SF/F fiction in general is so important to read. I have always diversified my reading because I was raised multicultural, multilingual, and traveled a lot as a kid. Cheers for the translation efforts, which I have done & know…

I’m assuming that you are referring to the MGM movie, as there was very little chance in the books that it was anything but real.

Jesus! So much to read!

The spiritual successor:

Cold War humor.... there was nothing funnier than making Nazis look ridiculous, and you were still allowed to do that.

Excellent article.