The latest bilge from Orson Scott Card

[docwebster]

I can't even do justice to this schweinerei.

Go. Read.

After that.. electronic hairball, I wouldn't buy a single more publication by Orson Scott Card if you held a gun to my head.

Comments

[isomeme.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sucks. I used to rather respect him. I wonder what happened?

[ex-flexible.livejournal.com]

GAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

I haven't followed his work in a while, but I don't remember it being so...pink.

Any idea when the decline began?

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

Skimming it to count the lies he believes was all I could stomach. How insulated from reality does a person have to be to continue to think to this day that WMDs were in Iraq at the time of the invasion?

Oh, and the parting shot: poor Republican fundies, even though you control everything, you're so oppressed by the educated.

It's like there's a slot in his skull to insert "talking points" and that's all.

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Well, let me be a little bit of a moderate voice....

I'm open to the possibility of punishing media outlets for knowingly publishing false information. It seems to be a reasonable expectation. However, there may be First Amendment issues with this.

I also agree with Card that rioters in general, and Muslim rioters in specific, are not behaving as reasonable adults behave.

I don't think, however, that there is some "vast left-wing conspiracy" as Card implies. Certainly there is fanaticism and unreasonableness on the Left, just as there is on the Right. These are individuals, however, and need to be dealt with on an individual basis.

[popesnarky.livejournal.com]

Hail Eris!

I tried to read it. Got a few paragraphs in, and tuned him right out. Damn it. How did he get from Alvin to...to this? I can't see this version of Card as being capable of demonstrating the necessary empathy to write any sort of character I'd ever care to read about.

Snarky

[foxsynergy.livejournal.com]

Augh, cripes. How can someone in the overall religious and political majority whine that they're being dumped on and that everyone is against them? To me, it's like hearing the owner of a bank saying he's below the poverty line.