We Roared. We Were One Big Animal

The United States Of America Was A Pirate Nation For The First One Hundred Years Of Its Existence, Ripping Off The Patents And Trademarks Of The Imperial European Powers It Had Liberated Itself From By Blood. By Keeping Their Gdp At Home, The U.s. Revolutionaries Were Able To Bootstrap Their Nation Into An Industrial Powerhouse. Now, It Seems, Their Descendants Are Bent On Ensuring That No Other Country Can Pull The Same Trick Off.

The Accolade Of Your Peers Is Very Exciting, Always. There's Lots Of Good Stuff On The Ballot.

It's Hard Not To Like Asimov; He's A Really Likable Guy.

If It's Not In My Email Archive, I Don't Know It

Terrorism Is About Magnifying One Mediagenic Act Of Violence Into One Hundred Billion Acts Of Terrorized Authoritarian Idiocy.