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"Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached." ~Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia regarding decision in Herrera v. Collins (1993)

Novels Car - Harry Crews The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution - Robert Anton Wilson Short Stories Oceanic - Greg Egan The Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang Exhalation - " The Merchant and The Alchemist's Gate - " The Dark - Karen Joy Fowler

I just tried a search at Borders and got a list of children's books with the occasional scholary sounding title mixed in. It looks like the bookstore is a bit inconsistent in using the "Jr." title with the two authors. The fact that she couldn't (or wouldn't) make the distinction on her own is...

Picture: Avatar Actor: Bridges Actress: Bullock Director: Cameron I've only seen Up, Avatar and District 9 though.

Nevermind that question Jez. I'm done.

Jez - How does voting against a specific gay marriage law help further your ideal of removing government from regulating marriage in general?

Just to be clear where I stand. I agree. See final comment on post #93 is same as slippery slope fallacy.

I can imagine the rebuttal to the above comment so I would like to further clarify. Anybody who wants to marry a favorite pet is, yes, then in fact denied that desire. Does the law not do that in innumerable instances already? Deny certain desires. In fact, isn't it meant to do just that...

Okay, I guess it would have to be stated then as - two adult and consenting human beings. Explain to me who exactly this leaves out?

The human part is a given. Who? What groups are you talking about? What are these "new groups?" I see what you mean here by getting government out of it entirely, but I'm not sure it's realistic. Other than not allowing two gay adults to marry the government does not regulate who...

The problem with this argument is that in the meantime gay adults are denied a fundamental right to marry until we figure out how to disentangle the government from its role in sanctioning marriage. How does the government "dictate who is allowed to marry and who is not allowed to marry" besides...

No offense to any rugby players, but they're generally smaller, slower and weaker than your avergage NFL player too. Plus the helmet is just as much a weapon as it is a defensive measure.

Polly, you just hush.

My interest in science alone was enough for me to love this story. Pressure gradients fascinate me - go figure. Chiang's writing is terrific though and it is easy to appreciate the story for that reason as well. He hasn't written much apparently, but what he has done has been is of a very high...

Yeah, I coulda' told you that before you printed. Or do you not like to read extended text on your computer monitor? Can't blame you if that's the case. I just hate my printer even more.

Exhalation is shorter and stranger and excellent.

Well don't quote me on that. It's just a guess after all. I think you might like The Confession of Brother Blaise by Jane Yolen and both stories that I read by Egan and Chiang were great. Oceanic is available free online.

Yeah right. More like 3 more incorporated since we've been having this conversation. Hell, there's that many in Washington and Oregon. I'm going with 100-200 worldwide.

And if Song of Kali is picked for March book of the month we'll have even more to discuss!

I've also read: The Man in the High Castle The Penultimate Truth The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch A Maze of Death The Zap Gun The Philip K. Dick Reader VALIS is not like any of his other books which are more typical novels (although still not very typical). Of the ones I list I...