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I had to perform an act of faith. I had to prove to myself that I was a man. Not just a producing-consuming economic animal... but a man.

I could hear Colonel Dubois in my my mind: "Citizen-ship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live."

You know the state of our politics is in trouble when I say with a strait face "Starship Troopers should be required reading."

My mother had been in Buenos Aires when the Bugs smeared it.

It was Operation Bughouse, the First Battle of Klendathu in the history books, soon after Buenos Aires was smeard. It took the loss of B.A. to make the groundhogs realize that anything was going on, because people who haven't been out don't really believe in other planets, not down deep where it counts. I know I hadn't and I had been space-happy since I was a pup.

A suit isn't a space suit-although it can serve as one. It is not primarily armor-although the Knights of the Round Table were not armored as well as we are. it isn't a tank-but a single M.I. private could take on a squadron of those things and knock them off unassisted if anybody was silly enough to put tanks against M.I. A suit is not a ship but it can fly, a little...

A speaker somewhere was blaring out a military march, fit to wake the dead, and a hair nuisance who had come charging down the company street yelling, "Everybody out! Show a leg! On the bounce!" came marauding back again just as I had pulled the covers over my head, tipped over my cot and dumped me on the cold hard ground. It was an impersonal attention; he didn't even wait to see if I hit.

So many movies!

Juan Rico. Great literary Filipino, or greatest literary Filipino?

Come on, you apes! You wanta live forever?

So far I have a film to watch and a book to read. I'd call that a good start.

...for the sake of the good of religion, governments may (and, perhaps, ought) legitimately concern themselves with the health and well being of various communities of faith within their jurisdiction, just as they legitimately concern themselves with the health and well being of families and other valuable institutions of civil society.
-Robert P. George & William L. Saunders, Jr

I have a half a mind to type in the fun quotes and leave them untranslated.

Upon returning to my standard desktop, the new layout is just as squint inducing.

What I should be doing is reading an entire speech in a sitting, but I'm apparently a bum at the moment. And yes, this is in Latin.