When our riots pointlessly burin half a city, that is protected political discourse.
When their riots inconvenience our politicians for most of a day, that is literally hitler.
Speaking of pointless arson, remember how the oldest sci-fi bookstore in the country, Uncle Hugo's,
was burned down during the George Floyd riots a couple years ago, taking with it thousands of books, many irreplaceable? With John being such an avid sci-fi fan (he's read
Heinlien after all), I figured he would have had something to say about this tragic loss.
Nope. Neither he nor Frank ever posted anything about Uncle Hugo's. I also searched just for "hugo" since the end of May 2020, and all I got were John bragging about Frank's Hugo Awards (he's won
four you know) and Frank tweeting about a podcast he was on last year. I even checked the date ranges around the time of the arson just to see if they failed to mention it by name; Frank didn't tweet at all in that timespan, and while John did a lot of tweeting about the riots, not a single mention of this pointless destruction.
As an aside, the
GoFundMe for Uncle Hugo's is still up and active, and according to the update posted last week, the owner is in the process of closing on the new location for the store, which looks to be in a slightly nicer part of town about a block away from a non-sci-fi used book store (personally I would have left Minneapolis altogether, but eh). He's hoping they can open by June, but given the multitude of delays so far, he won't be surprised if it takes longer. I'm glad there's at least a bright side to this story, because it still hurts to think about how many classic books were lost for absolutely no reason at all.
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