Book of the Week: Tales From the Ferm – Kidding! KIDDING! It’s Children of the Lens.

I’ve been on a Doc E.E. Smith tear for the last week or so, if it wasn’t completely obvious. Finishing up SECOND STAGE LENSMAN right now, and then it’ll be time for CHILDREN OF THE LENS. But not the seventh book; like Bob Heinlein, I doubt Smith ever wrote it, even in manuscript form. It would have been far too controversial for the time period.

#rsrh WH blames Greenies for lack of GOP.

(Via Hot Air Headlines) Yeah.  Apparently they were the ones who were supposed to bring in the Republican party to support the climate bill.

(pause)

Wait.  What?

One exasperated administration official on Thursday lambasted the environmentalists – led by the Environmental Defense Fund – for failing to effectively lobby GOP senators.

“They didn’t deliver a single Republican,” the official told POLITICO. “They spent like $100 million and they weren’t able to get a single Republican convert on the bill.”

Yeah.  Um.  Right.  I don’t know how to quite break this to the Obama administration, but here you go… the only reason why the environmental movement doesn’t want to see the Republican party all die in a fire is because they’re worried about the resulting carbon footprint.  Bless their hearts, but they hate us so much that it gives them permanent wrinkles on their foreheads; so just how were they supposed to bring us on-side, anyway?

Or am I just in an alternate universe again?  If so, is this at least one where they found the sequel to Children of the Lens? That’d actually be worth the hassle of setting up a new bank account and credit card.

Moe Lane