Those in Maricopa County who intentionally destroyed evidence that was subpoenaed also need to go to jail.
Those in Maricopa County who intentionally destroyed evidence that was subpoenaed also need to go to jail.
“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”
Right up until Star Trek, and to an even greater extent Star Wars, the defining characteristic of science fiction was intelligence.
Leave it to Hollyweird to take a title like “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and turn it into the stultifyingly pedestrian “Blade Runner.”
William Zinsser, in “On Writing Well,” includes this illustration by George Orwell on how not to do it. Orwell takes a verse from Ecclesiastes and rewrites it into modern bureaucratic sludge.
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
This became:
Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.