Behold, happy is the man who God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty—Job 5:17.
I admit to having a pro-Heinlein bias—he is my favorite author—but, frankly, he deserves it. Robert A. Heinlein is possibly the most influential science-fiction/speculative-fiction writer in history, and I believe he is unequivocally the best. I have enjoyed every one of his novels that I have read (more than twelve so far), and his work never fails to make me think.
Citing unusually credible threats, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today raised the terror alert level for the financial districts in Washington, DC; New York City; and Newark, New Jersey, to “high” or “orange.” The rest of the country remains at an “elevated” or “yellow” alert level.
“Do what your convictions tell you,” is what my now-former roommate said to me in our last real conversation. I almost did. My convictions told me that he was neither entitled to—nor did he deserve—a single cent of the $50 he was trying to get me to pay him. But, despite what my gut told me right then, I wrote out a check on-the-spot for $25—only subtracting half of what he’d demanded because that was how much it would cost to change the locks. (He had given keys out to at least four different people, and has still not returned any of them except his own.)
In case any of you missed it (as I did), many of the speeches from the Democratic National Convention are available for free in the iTunes Music Store (thanks to Audible.com and CSPAN). Already up are Monday’s and Tuesday’s speeches, and I assume the rest are coming soon.
Democratic National Convention speeches (iTunes link).
Virginia’s legislature made a mistake, they say. Not too long ago, my state’s government repealed a whole bunch of old, unnecessary laws. The problem was, they didn’t mean to repeal one of them.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
