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Unnaturally Selective
Behe, Hannah et al. show their ID. Also: Honoring Penn Kemble. Libertarian Spacemen. Involuntarily inert. Exorcist exits. Plus more.
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Re: Peter Suderman’s
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I really think that Peter Suderman is on to something here with his article on Serenity versus Star Trek. I am a life-long Trekker and newly minted “browncoat” who buys the multi-ethnic message of the Trek franchise whilst rejecting it’s big government/post-money economics. Yet I had not seriously considered the political message of Serenity (and Firefly).
Serenity resonates with me on several levels — I don’t suppose that Suderman has ever read any of Jerry Pournelle’s “CoDominium” stories, has he? And oddly enough, the best-selling geostrategic book The Pentagon’s New Map talks about a rich and prosperous “Core” and a cruder outside world that the author calls “The Gap.” And in Joss Whedon’s “verse,” the Alliance dominates from The Core against the Rim. Hmmmm.
p>Well done. br> — D. Grant Greffey br> Springfield, Virginia /p> p> GAS GONZOS
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