Happy birthday, johnnyd_48, lissamc, quasigeostrophy, and zorinth.

Rick Brown, now Ox Brown, is oxjock.

I think it was Michael Kinsley, 25 years ago, who said of course Republicans in power are going to lead to deficits. A budget in balance or surplus represents government collecting taxes from rich people to fund its functions. A budget in deficit represents government paying rich people interest (on bonds) to fund its functions--Jim Henley

Now that American science fiction, past its majority, is heading for the peaceful middle age of an established form, some of its earliest adherents feel as if they had suddenly grown long gray beards; there is nothing more pathetic, I suppose, than the look on the face of an old-guard fan who's waiting to say something about ( Read more... )

Thanx to Randy Byers, on the trufen list.

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Thanx to nancylebov