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Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 6 February 2010
One tool for inventing an imaginary story universe in science fiction is extrapolating from the present into the future. Granting corporations lots of extra power as the Supreme Court did recently is very good for my worldbuilding. But is very bad for the world I actually live in.
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Money as “free speech”: Colbert, Maddow, & me

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 23 January 2010
Commentary from Stephen Colbert & Rachel Maddow on the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FED -- & my own observations on how the Republican Party has become just as psychopathic as corporations.
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