Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
I've been writing full-time since 1978.
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.
Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.
Despite of it all, the Negro remains. . . cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.
There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder. " First you violate the rules - the market rules - and then by the time you succeed in developing, you kick away the ladders so others can't do it too, and you preach about "free trade. "