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Old 01-15-2007, 09:42 AM   #2
MaggieL
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Originally Posted by JayMcGee View Post
ISTR a short story by Robert Heinlen which postulated just such a device. As the right-winger he was, I'm sure you wont be surprised that his viewpoint matched Maggies pretty much word for word.
Which device are you referring to?

In fact I'm a huge Heinlien fan. His personal political evolution is rather interesting; he didn't start out as what you dismiss as a "right-winger"--in fact he was quite liberal when young--but his life experience led him to the positions he espoused later.
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