Heinlein: this man who wrote Troopers also wrote Stranger In A Strange Land.

The remakes of his movies have been so damn bad too. Could you imagine if he’d been put in charge of redoing Robocop or Total Recall.

Don’t forget how surprising prescient it was. Some bizarre race we don’t understand suddenly catastrophically attacks our cities, launching us into a war in remote deserts where we hunt our enemies in caves and kill entities that are alien to us and we suffer unexpectedly large casualties instead of immediate victory…

I think my mother worked for that same woman’s Hellspawn sister. Back in the mid 80’s my mother worked for one of Satan’s understudies. She was pregnant and doing physical labor at the time when one afternoon she doubled over in pain and was sent home by a team lead. Mom miscarried later that night and still managed…

During a JOB INTERVIEW.

It is a menace that has often resulted in real world violence; the spread of discrimination; increased mental health issues and self-inflicted physical harm.

Cruise lines is probably to be better business model than hotels for space tourism. See:

I’ve heard Paris put the kibosh on it.

that was part and parcel of 1950s thinking. WWII was over and won, we had the bomb, we thought atomic energy would power everything, and even though it was years before President Kennedy’s speech, the space program was really picking up steam and the moon didn’t seem like such a longshot.

It’s still not too late to send his great-granddaughter there, forever:

It’s really nice to be hear of people being kind and generous :)

Small acts of kindness can make a world of difference. I’ve got to say, reading that, it sounds like she was afraid of her husband...which might imply verbal/physical abuse. What you did for her may have saved her from some serious harm, and just another reason why what you did was awesome.

This is a story I wrote on my blog a few years ago, about an incident that happened several years before that. I was an EB Games store manager in North Carolina, and this happened one day:

Thank you for doing this article.

Clear eyes, full hearts, fuck that guy, right?!

Poor soldier, having to attend a Rams game. Hasn’t he sacrificed enough?

Oh. My. God. You just made my childhood. This will be mine by the end of the year.