Politics and SF

An interesting article about the relationship between science fiction (the hard variety) and libertarianism.

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Fast forward

You know you are not happy when you wish you could make time go faster.

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Eight year old charged with discrimination for not inviting classmates to party

I have seen a lot of absurd things but this one is king. The last sentence of the excerpt below is possibly the greatest example of WTF-ness ever.

An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.
The boy’s school says he has violated the [...]

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Porn producer gets it, one law professor doesn’t

Adult film producer John Stagliano — facing up to 40 years in jail if convicted in a currently running obscenity case – debates Pepperdine Law School’s Barry McDonald on free speech vs obscenity. Money quote from Stagliano:
Barry, your point is that people must be forced to not think things that you don’t like, and for that [...]

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Shocking

The judge had only one option when he sentenced Cedric Bradshaw: life in prison.
Bradshaw had not committed murder, rape or armed robbery. His offense was failing to properly register as a convicted sex offender for a second time —- even though he had repeatedly tried to follow the law.
Indeed, Georgia’s draconian (and unique) law mandates [...]

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Andrew Sullivan on Wall-E

I haven’t had time to watch Wall-E yet though I am sure it is fabulous; I absolutely loved Cars and Ratatouille, Pixar’s last two offerings. Anyway, the following quote by Andrew Sullivan is, I feel, an eloquent statement that applies to all great art, and worth repeating.
It’s odd that a movie that predicts ecological doom can in fact make [...]

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