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• paws4thot commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  The "I love Lucy" vision of the 1950s is rather popular with conservatives -- or hadn't you noticed? Oh the irony. The Lucy character was not only a fairly powerful (if not in a making money outside the home sense) female character, but married to {shock, horror time} a Mexican. In a case of life imitating art (or vice versa) Lucille Ball actually was married to Desi Arnaz, and they were the real-life co-owners of Desilu Studios, which name may be familiar to people....
• george.herbert commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  paws4thot wrote in part: but married to {shock, horror time} a Mexican. Detail - Desi Arnaz was a Cuban-American, not a Mexican or Mexican-American. His family were well off in Cuba before the revolution. His father was apparently the mayor of Santiago de Cuba, the second biggest city in Cuba, immediately prior to the Revolution. He was arrested after and jailed for six months, and all the family property confiscated. They apparently left for the US shortly after....
• paws4thot commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  Cheers for the correction. Doesn't that actually make matters worse from the USian "conservative" PoV though?...
• ilya187 commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  No, it makes matters considerably better. American conservatives have always been fond of formerly rich Cubans persecuted by Castro....
• nsmjohn commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  +1 yank whose favorite Stross book is "Glasshouse". When it was initially proposed that "Glasshouse" may be tied to the "Accelerando" universe I felt the segue between the two was perfectly clean. The tech in "Glasshouse" is derivative of the tech at the end of "Accelerando" and the absences (Aineko, the Vile Offspring, etcetera) I always interpreted as collateral, or even the purpose, of the Censorship Wars. As for cluttered and unpredictable, the Censorship Wars are the perfect 'cure'; you now have a human universe that knows of no outside influence (see above absences) which can be reintroduced/ignored as the...