Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.