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Dafydd over at Big Lizards, a blog with mostly pro-war commentary, allowed the co-author of my first novel, Anarquia, Brad Linaweaver, to speak his er, “peace” against the war. Brad’s statement was first published in the March 2008 cover feature, “The Great Hollywood Peace Parade” by Ron Garmon in L.A. City Beat:

Lest anyone complain the literary tend to cluster at one end of the national political dial, I called my old friend – and sometimes writing partner – Brad Linaweaver. A science-fiction writer and Nebula award finalist best known for spinning bizarre alternate histories, Linaweaver is also a conservative-libertarian pundit Ronald Reagan was given to quoting on matters of doctrinal orthodoxy. Recent political writings and support for Ron Paul win him no friends in rightist circles these days.

“The Republican Party should not pretend to spread democracy to the benighted regions of the world,” said Brad, who was in rare form, bellowing down the phone line. “That is not in the Republican party’s job description. He’s in the wrong comic book. Bill Buckley thought his Iraq policy “un-conservative,” a fact noted by Fox News in his obituary, which I thought unusually fair and balanced of them.

“The left is completely failing to fight the war machine,” the novelist continued. “They won in ’06 and have failed ever since. They don’t understand even now how the corporate power-elite runs both parties. George W. Bush is such a happy man these days. Why? He’s done his job, serving his masters well, giving us a foothold in Iraq forever. We will never leave. McCain is being unduly optimistic when he said we’d be there a hundred years. We’ll be in Iraq as long as the American Empire exists. Bush went there for one reason – to stay there.” Echoing Jodie Evans, my old friend and antagonist charged the administration with the fantasist’s worst sin – lack of imagination. “They’d rather kill people than develop alternative energy,” he snorted.

Sez Dafydd of L.A. City Beat’s online edition:

(Oddly enough, these progressive corporate dupes have cleverly designed their website so that it’s only readable when using Microsoft Internet Explorer; if you use Netscape or Firefox, the text comes up black on black, which is rather hard to read. You must select all the text in order to peruse the article. I’m sorry, but I just find it hilariously ironic that an über-left film rag plays lickspittle to Bill Gates!)

Perhaps Dafydd’s Windows-based browser has decided to Think Different about the site than the rest of us. My Mac-based Firefox browser shows the page correctly, as Galt intended. But then I’m just playing lickspittle to Steve Jobs. And while L.A. City Beat may cover things in Los Angeles, as the “L.A.” in their name might indicate, their “beat” seems to go far beyond the film and TV industry.

[Update: J. Neil Schulman reports that the L.A. City Beat site comes up with black text on black on the Windows Netscape browser, but when he copy and pasted the URL into Windows Firefox, the site looked OK.]

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