This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

David Stockhoff · 12 Apr 2012, 00:01 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:01:56 -0400
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires
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On 4/11/2012 7:25 PM, Matthew Knight wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Bitterman <tom at bitterman.net 
> <mailto:tom at bitterman.net>> wrote:
>
>     There is a single chapter, "Guns", which reads, in outline:
>     socialized healthcare is terrible; the burning bed defense is a
>     crock; families don't love/help each other any more; the police
>     and government are worthless; the developed countries are all out
>     to get us; the third world won't even help fight an alien
>     invasion; the narrator is the very essence of humanity, or at
>     least Western civilization, the embodiment of law, justice and
>     civilization; his masters would spit on him if they even
>     remembered what those things were; and he's got guns and is going
>     out to kill people.  I did not leap to the conclusion that there
>     was a political message here - I was pushed.
>
>
>  Yes--I hadn't even reached this when I posted my reaction to the 
> sharia bit, but that chapter descended into Author Filibuster 
> territory for me.  Hope the rest is better.  I never thought I'd be 
> comparing Wolfe to Terry Goodkind, but at least it was 3 pages instead 
> of 30...

I think that somehow that rant provides a clue to Skip's origin. But I 
don't know what origin that is.

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