Jul 16 2008
What I’ve noticed (almost weekly edition)
Why is there so much anti-American sentiment in the world?
Rove is a criminal, on vacation.
Knowing about the economy is important if you’d like to be president, McCain.
No, I’m not a big Heinlein fan.
Rich people use drugs (poor, brown people go to jail for it).
Why having the legal protection of marriage is important for queer couples.
That blog post you linked to gives a pretty narrow view of Heinlein, and is absolutely rife with typical American puritanical-ness. The primary complaint seems to be that Heinlein writes a great deal about sex, which he does in some novels.
Never mind that lots of people have lots of sex lots of the time, and Americans, even most (all?) on the Left react negatively to sex, which has always puzzled me.
When will America get over this bizarre attitude towards sex?
As for Heinlein’s tales, some are very good indeed, some are pretty bad, but most of the objections I see to all of them boil down to, “Wah! He wrote about sex I don’t like! Wah!”