Spider Robinson on the Canadian Election

[PatGund]

(note: Spider Robinson is an award-winning (Hugo, Nebula, and Cambell) SF/F writer currently living in British Columbia. Originally from New York, he is now a naturalized Canadian citizen.)

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/election2006.htm

"Argue all you want about health care or marijuana or corruption or money for oil or any of the other crap: if we elect a majority Conservative government, Canadian boys and girls will die bloody.

Canadian troops will die in a foreign land, to help Americans protect themselves against the dread specter of 19 fanatics who have been dead for nearly five years, and whose living friends (if any) have in all the time since then failed to so much as injure a single American on American soil.

Canadian parents, too, will get to have their children come home in a bag, just like Americans. We’ll be helping that process to continue, for parents in both countries. Not to mention for parents in Iraq, who are just as deserving of kindness."

[eppur_se_muova]

1. In one of his story collections, he tells why he moved...

to Canada. Don't have a citation, but it was probably "Antinomy". (I was thinking the title was "In the Antinomy Mine" but Amazon lists the short title. Maybe I'm thinking of the title of an essay in the book...

[Mythsaje]

2. Go Spider!

One of my favorite authors.