So, tonight, the newly minted 12-yr-old is curling up in bed with her first Heinlein. I walked her through a short lesson:<\/p>\n
BUMD:<\/strong> Who colonized Australia? Right in one. She’s reading Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<\/span>, which was one of my all time favorites. So, the world – even the world of fiction writers – was long divided about Heinlein’s place in polite society. I’m either a wonderful father, continuing my child’s educational journey, or I’m materially contributing to the delinquency of a minor.<\/p>\n SOBUMD had the best response to the question: “I think it’s been too late for that one for a few years now. You could hand her anything from Catcher in the Rye<\/span> to Lady Chatterly’s Lover<\/span>, it’s not going to make a damn bit of difference.”<\/p>\n Ah well. Everything I’ve learned that turned out to be worth knowing, I learned from reading books that someone else had banned. Eff ’em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everything I’ve learned that turned out to be worth knowing, I learned from reading books that someone else had banned. Eff ’em. Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is the right book in the right place. TANSTAAFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHTR:<\/strong> Um, the Brits.
\nBUMD:<\/strong> Why?
\nHTR:<\/strong> I think they sent all their prisoners there.
\nBUMD:<\/strong> Right. So now, imagine that the provincial world powers get their collective heads out of their butts and arm the UN, handing over most of the nukes to a central government.
\nHTR:<\/strong> Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay…..
\nBUMD:<\/strong> And then, some genius gets the idea that we need another penal colony, like the Brits had with Australia. We have a world government. Where do we put the criminals?
\nHTR:<\/strong> I dunno, I guess the moon.<\/p>\n