Orson Scott Card: Phony Soldiers and Patriotism

The Ornery American ^ | October 7, 2007 | Orson Scott Card

[Tolik]

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[GreyFriar]

OSC Ping

[rhombus]

I’m glad at least one science fiction writer hasn’t been swept away by Star Trek Next Generation PC nonsense.

[r-q-tek86]

It's from a few weeks back, but this made me think of this thread:

Genuine Phonies

[listenhillary]

sun of a hillary that was a good article.

[TChris]

I love OSC!

...but he must use his editor a lot, to create such mundane things such as paragraphs.

[joebuck]

Mr. Card is in my doghouse. He never revealed what the three words were and it’s still driving me crazy.

[Tolik]

Thanks - simply hilarious stuff from Snopes/urban legends. Thanks for the link.

[aruanan]

...but he must use his editor a lot, to create such mundane things such as paragraphs.

No, he doesn't have to use his editor to do this (I know you're speaking tongue-in-cheek). He can do it himself. He told me that if I wanted to improve my writing quickly I just needed to edit a lot of bad writing.

[Tolik]

Over the past few weeks since this phony story started, I’ve seen a good number of very good articles, but this one is just brilliant. Card took it and ran with it, making sweeping observations and connecting the dots. Once again he confirmed why I admire him.

[wally_bert]

Same here, I had a hard time watching TNG (in the different incarnations) these days since just about all of it so PC.

I am in the Babylon 5/Crusade camp for TV sci-fi. I don’t know JMS’s politics or anything but B5 didn’t have a lot of touchy-feely stuff in it. Got to love a series that uses nuclear weapons from time to time.

Lookup http://starwreck.com/ for a good, subtitled (Finnish, I think) parody of both Star Trek and B5. There is an embedded trailer on the page. About 2:15 in is something really funny, at least to me. The whole movie is worth watching. It was played a lot at the last Dragoncon.

[Fawnn]

Canteen ping — to a long, but AWESOME!, opinion piece!

[Slings and Arrows]

Why the h-e-double-hockey-sticks isn’t Orson Scott Card the White House Director of Communications?

[listenhillary]

Thanks for the ping. This one is getting sent far and wide.

[sit-rep]

Too wordy...

[Carlucci]

Bookmark for later, and OSC bump!

[listenhillary]

How about chief strategist for the RNC?

[listenhillary]

It’s worth it.

[sit-rep]

Yes, after I got myself a cup of coffee and finished reading, I must agree...