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…
Archive for November, 2016
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…
One good thing about being part of the military of one of the worlds’ greatest superpowers is that your handiwork gets plastered all over the net and people think it’s great. They think you’re a Big Damn Hero. When things[…]↓ 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…
We expanded into the galaxy slowly at first. It took years to plan each colony, years to travel between the stars, and decades before those new worlds became productive. But we spent the time and money to do it. Some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes I’m amazed at the kinds of life I find out in the worlds I go to. Sometimes it looks like something that could have grown up on Earth. Other times it is truly alien. And sometimes it’s twisted just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Humanity has created many great and terrible things in its time in the sun. Spears. Stories. Swords. Plays. Guns. Movies. Nuclear weapons. Cat videos. What humanity has done with those creations is what has changed the worlds. They have brought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…