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John Scalzi says that science fiction does not become fantasy by getting the science wrong.

But this could mean there's no tooth fairy!!!

In his new book, the first Homeland Security chief, Tom Ridge, accuses top aides to President George W. Bush of pressing him to raise the terror alert level to influence the 2004 presidential election.

Thanx to Unqualified Offerings

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Making Light has a thought-provoking discussion of socialized medicine as freedom, rather than repression. It brings to mind Robert Anton Wilson's remark that the vicious things the Left says about corporations and the vicious things the Right says about the state are both essentially correct.

Has this really been thought through?

oursin looks at sponsored celibacy.

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Michele Bachmann has announced that she is pro-choice, though probably not on purpose.

Thanx to sarah_ovenall