Before Yosemite, I lived for the moment. The hour. The day. After Yosemite, I lived to kill the Shang. New Washington changed me again. I still wanted to kill the Shang, of course. But that is when I chose to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Power in early Twenty-First Century America was evenly split between large rural areas and densely packed urban population centers. They were two completely different worlds that rarely met in real life. The liberal urbanites looked down on their conservative rural[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I do try to keep myself as unserious as possible most of the time. That’s because so many people take all parts of life so seriously you know. They don’t like to joke about anything. Every little setback is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes I wonder why we can’t all just get alone. The problem of course is that we all want something different. Sometimes we want what someone else has. Most of just shrug and go get something different. But some of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Vietnam-era anti-war riots and bombings had created a generation of protestors that became teachers and politicians when they came of age. They inherited control at the beginning of the Twenty-First Century, and brought all their experience to the war[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After every election, there are losers and winners. Approximately half of the people will vote for one candidate, and the other half will vote for another. And somewhere in the mix there are a handful of people who will tip[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Americans practice our God-given right to choose the government that represents us today. We go to the polls amidst deep divides between our cultures, but for over two centuries we do what few other nations have managed. We arrange for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many humans have always felt the need to travel to new places and leave behind what they know. But this was most often a small-scale ordeal with no more than a single-family unit or so. The massive colony operations of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up with the intelligent dogs and cats of Earth. And of course I met some of the catgirls that make Los Angeles famous. But something I learned out in the stars is that these modifications were real minor.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Humanity tamed the world and the animals in its quest to go forth and multiply. They turned wild plants could only feed the gatherers into field plants that could feed worlds. They turned wild animals into domesticated companions that could[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…