joined on 05/05/06
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about me
I'm a nice friendly guy with the looks of a biker and the soul of a poet. (Now I'm on the run from the biker and poet, who have teamed up to hunt down the man who stole his looks and her soul!) I'm a strong believer in the equality of all humans, and in civil rights for higher animals and for artificial intelligences. I am fascinated by history and other lands, and my interest in science fiction and fantasy is largely an outgrowth of that fascination. I'm basically very honest, and don't have much use for pretentious people. And, well, that's me.
Ding, Dong, Saddam Is Dead! :)
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At 8 pm today I first received word that Saddam Hussein had been executed.
My overwhelming emotion was of relief.
Up until now, I had really been afraid that Saddam might somehow get away with it.
That, having murdered tens of thousands...
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Evolutionary Value of Homosexuality
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This is from a Usenet post in which I speculated on why homosexuality was natural to many species, including Man.
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Homosexual behavior can be adaptive behavior in members of a species in several wa...
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Proposed Proscriptions
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A couple of days ago, I was walking out of the nearby Safeway when a young man collecting signatures spoke to me. Now, I'm not registered to vote here in San Francisco, but I wsa curious to find out what he wanted.
"Wouldn't you like to impea...
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Giants in Twilight (poem)
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"Giants in Twilight"
by Jordan S. Bassior
(c) 2006
They stand in twilight.
Great gray giants, battleships of flesh
Living cruisers of the land
Trunks questing, tusks tossing
They cross the veldt.
Listen!
You can feel their rumbl...
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Retro Review - Jack Williamson, "The Prince of Space" (1931)
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Introduction
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When I saw the title of this story, I was reminded mainly of a couple of really bad Japanese movies, which I saw on _MST3K_. On the other hand, the writer _was_ Jack Williamson, so I had some hopes of the story being go...
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At 8 pm today I first received word that Saddam Hussein had been executed.
My overwhelming emotion was of relief.
Up until now, I had really been afraid that Saddam might somehow get away with it.
That, having murdered tens of thousands of his own people and indirectly caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands more in several nations; after being one of the main causes of Iraq's current agony owing to his idiotic refusal to order a general surrender when his army was shattered; th...
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Fri, December 29, 2006 - 10:41 PM
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This is from a Usenet post in which I speculated on why homosexuality was natural to many species, including Man.
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Homosexual behavior can be adaptive behavior in members of a species in several ways.
The simplest way is that it forms and cements affinitive bonds between members of the same sex. Remember that in Nature (and in primitive human societies) few individuals are wholly homosexual; what is more common is _bisexual_ behavior in w...
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A couple of days ago, I was walking out of the nearby Safeway when a young man collecting signatures spoke to me. Now, I'm not registered to vote here in San Francisco, but I wsa curious to find out what he wanted.
"Wouldn't you like to impeach George Bush?" the man asked.
"On what grounds?" I asked him.
"Going to war in Iraq and torturing people," he replied.
I thought about this for a moment and said. "No."
"Do you support war and torture?" the young man asked incredulously...
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Sat, December 16, 2006 - 8:04 AM
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"Giants in Twilight"
by Jordan S. Bassior
(c) 2006
They stand in twilight.
Great gray giants, battleships of flesh
Living cruisers of the land
Trunks questing, tusks tossing
They cross the veldt.
Listen!
You can feel their rumbles
Too deep to hear
The air trembles
With their slow calls.
They move as families
Walking to waterholes
Stripping the forests
Remaking the land.
Dominance herds them
Memory guides them
Love, it unites them
On their endless quest.
W...
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Thu, December 14, 2006 - 11:31 PM
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Introduction
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When I saw the title of this story, I was reminded mainly of a couple of really bad Japanese movies, which I saw on _MST3K_. On the other hand, the writer _was_ Jack Williamson, so I had some hopes of the story being good.
Plot
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By the year 2131 (1) there is regular spaceflight to the Moon. A pasenger ship, the _Helicon_, is found drifting with everyone aboard horribly murdered. Blame is put on the "Prince of Space," a notorious pirate. A big reward is...
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20th Century German History,
6th MASS EXTINCTION,
:::---FREE ENERGY ---:::,
::transhuman::,
a dolphin's view,
A S I M O V,
All Warfare and Tactics,
Ancient Egypt,
Anthropology,
Archaeology,
Armchair Historians,
Arthur C. Clarke's Universe,
AskaSexyBBWAnything,
Astronomy,
Bay Area Polyamory,
Bay Area Speculative Fiction Writers,
Berkeley Free Clinic,
big gurls rule,
Bodacious Bunnies and Curvaceous Kitties,
Book Club,
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