I’m halfway through the last installment of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Forty/Fifty/Sixty trilogy. I love this author, and this may be his masterpiece. A couple morsels of food for thought:

The Department of Energy has an Intelligence Office. You couldn’t make this stuff up. Also, a quote from a homeless biology professor talking with a common homeless Vietnam vet:

“You should be a Buddhist,” Frank said. “You should talk to my Buddhist friends.”
“Yeah right. I don’t go in for that hippie shit.”
“It’s not hippie shit.”
“Yeah it is. How would you know.”
“I talk to them is how I know. I lived with them.”
“Oh. Well. That explains it then. But it also proves my point about them being hippies. I mean you don’t just live with people, do you.”