"Just Another Rapist" Writes To Certain Conservative Politicians

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Thursday October 25, 2012 · 8:08 PM PDT

2012/10/25 · 20:08

Until recently, John Scalzi has perhaps been most widely known as the man who taped bacon to his cat and put the pictures on his blog ("Whatever", which will soon celebrate it's 15th anniversary). Sure, his post comparing life to a video game (with Straight, White Male as the "easy" setting) generated quite a bit of internet comment last sprint. And last month CNN wrote about and linked to his seven-year-old piece on what it means to be poor. But today, he joined the giants, and earned the right to be mentioned alongside Swift, and Orwell, and Voltaire.

Today, he wrote "A Fan Letter to Certain Conservative Politicians" and it is the most brutal (and brilliant) piece of political satire I can recall reading in my life.

Excerpts below, but first a caution. In John's own words "this post is going to be oh-so-very-triggery for victims of rape and sexual assault. I am not kidding."

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Friday February 06, 2009 · 7:32 PM PST

2009/02/06 · 19:32

Actor James Whitmore, whose one man shows brought three progressive heroes (Will Rogers, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt) to life for later generations, died today of lung cancer. The LA Times Obituary is linked here:

James Whitmore dies at 87; veteran actor brought American icons to life

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 4:45 PM PDT

2008/09/12 · 16:45

I've been sitting here in a Johnson County Kansas basement, waiting out a tornado warning, and the Weather Channel is shifting back and forth between us and Hurricane Ike, particularly landfall in Galveston. In one segment, they said the surge could top the seawall for the first time since the 1900 hurricane. That made me think of an old folk song, recorded by the Chad Mitchell Trio (lyrics below). Let's hope/pray that this time has a better outcome.

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Monday May 01, 2006 · 1:10 PM PDT

2006/05/01 · 13:10

That was the subject line on the email sitting in my inbox from my brother-in-law. He's a self-described moderate Republican, living in Kansas. I once heard him say "If I lived in California I would probably be a Democrat". When the important decisions are in the primary, he wants to be voting in the one that matters. I opened the message.

You're more in touch with the political blogosphere than I am. The Ohio Secretary of State wants to be governor. He's posted million of Ohioans social security numbers on his web site, and only moved to remove them in the face of a class action lawsuit. He's handed out copies of the voter registration records that include every voters social security number, but assures the press that none of the recipients has a history of identity theft. Where's the outrage? Have we become so inured to the massive data losses and thefts exposing thousands and millions to identity theft that we've lost the ability to get upset about it?

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Saturday September 03, 2005 · 8:11 PM PDT

2005/09/03 · 20:11

Dear Friends,

Each day, the news is grimmer, the images more horriffic. What seemed a few days ago t obe a disaster largely averted has instead become the greatest American disaster of our lifetimes -- perhaps in our history. And each day brings worse news than the one before.

I didn't think I knew anyone in New Orleans. But Thursday a new co-worker, in her second day at the job, said "I'm from New Orleans. My mom is homeless and jobless right now, and it'll be at least two months before she can even go back to see if our house is still standing."

As my grandmother would have said, "There but for the grace of God..." I live in Southern California, the heart of earthquake country. I grew up in a region known as Tornado Alley. I have friends who have lived where people die due to cold every winter, and friends who have lived where people die due to heat every summer. None of us are safe from disaster. Every place has its dangers. Read More

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