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No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
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Tom Clancy has died in a hospital in Baltimore. Cause of death has not been revealed yet, therefore I wish to be the first to claim that this was an assassination by a clandestine agency. It's not that there is any evidence for that but it seems appropriate. I actually liked some of his books and the Harrison Ford movies were pretty good.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?hp&_r=1&
Pardon the interruption, good sir/lady; there are aspects of your behavior that I find quite unbecoming, and I must insist most strenuously that I be permitted to assist in resolving these behaviors through the repeated high-velocity cranial introduction of particularly firm building materials.
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Guys, this is getting creepy. Can we talk about cannibalism instead?
Quote from: askold on October 02, 2013, 12:08:08 pmTom Clancy has died in a hospital in Baltimore. Cause of death has not been revealed yet, therefore I wish to be the first to claim that this was an assassination by a clandestine agency. It's not that there is any evidence for that but it seems appropriate. I actually liked some of his books and the Harrison Ford movies were pretty good.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?hp&_r=1&I'll second that, except that the assassination was actually arranged by Clancy himself, because he thought it would be an appropriate way to go out. The agency in question has no idea.
The political left, they deal in symbols rather than reality. The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across. And conservatives are indeed conservative because if the bridge falls down then people die, whereas the liberals figure, we can always build a nice memorial and make people forget it ever happened and was our fault. They're very good at making people forget it was their fault. Alright? The CIA was gutted by people on the political left who don't like Intelligence operations... and as a result of that, as an indirect result of that, we lost 5,000 citizens last week.
Well he did make some really blatant strawman-liberals as sissy villains in his books. But for someone who likes gun- and tech-porn his books were a pretty good timewaster.But if were gonna disown writers based on their personal beliefs and politics, Clancy was much better than Card or Heinlein for example.
Quote from: askold on October 02, 2013, 02:45:11 pmWell he did make some really blatant strawman-liberals as sissy villains in his books. But for someone who likes gun- and tech-porn his books were a pretty good timewaster.But if were gonna disown writers based on their personal beliefs and politics, Clancy was much better than Card or Heinlein for example.HP Lovecraft was pretty bad when it came to his personal beliefs. Not that it bothers me any more than my grandfather's political and social views.
But if were gonna disown writers based on their personal beliefs and politics, Clancy was much better than Card or Heinlein for example.
The Marquis de Sade could turn a mean phrase. And he had interesting ideas. Warning: a lot of it seems to be written in French.
Well he did write the single most racist poem I've ever read.
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