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Posted by dfred (Member # 12410) on :
 
I like to think that OSC and myself have the same sense of humor- often times reading his work I find myself cracking up audibly- and so when I discovered this tidbit I felt like I understand the man a little more.

My friend works for the Marijuana Policy Project, a non profit in DC, and he was reading out funny names he came upon going through their database. He found a certain Orson Scott Card in their database. Do you think OSC tokes up?

Please note, I am not sure how this information falls under the anti-defamation rules of this forum, but I wish to make clear that defaming OSC is absolutely not what I wish to do, as I am a huge fan.
 
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
 
Not so much the defaming, but I'm uneasy about anyone revealing membership names in a public forum (unless it's someone on their board of directors or something). Might be legal, but seems impolite and tacky. My two cents.
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Leaving aside that this is second-hand, anonymous dirt, it's not all that dirty start with.

Looks like MPP has all kinds of supporters who have never smoked or owned an illegal drug of any kind -- they just think that the current drug laws are a bad idea.
 
Posted by Steve_G (Member # 10101) on :
 
or its someone registering names of famous people because they think its funny.
 
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Or some random person out there has the same name as a famous person.
 
Posted by The Ether of Space (Member # 2656) on :
 
"...but I wish to make clear that defaming OSC is absolutely not what I wish to do, as I am a huge fan. "

I don't think this is relevant.

There could be privacy laws?
 
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
 
They were both at FreedomFest

http://www.freedomfest.com/2010/speakers10.htm
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Stephan:
They were both at FreedomFest

They both who? OSC and?
 
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
 
Rob Kampia, co-founder and executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project.

Probably no connection whatsoever, I just googled to see what came up.
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Ah. Gotcha.
 


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