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From: Mad Hamish <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au>
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Subject: Re: SF writers in the work force JD Vance.
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:26:01 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:00:42 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>I have a feeling that when my public library comes through with
>>Hillbilly Elegy I'll spend less time reading it than I did waiting for
>>it. Last week they sent me an e-mail saying I was now #2 in queue. 
>
>I finally got it and have now finished it and while definitely not SF
>considered it worth my while and generally well written - which is not
>unexpected given Vance is a grad from a top law school where being
>able to write a good brief is pretty much expected.
>
>I was surprised by the role that Amy Chua (author of the Ride of the
>Dragon Mother - and a law school prof at Yale) played in Vance's
>courtship of his wife (who one would definitely not expected to have
>married a hillbilly!) No doubt we'll all know all about her by this
>time next year since she also is a Yale Law graduate.

Vance was never near being a hillbilly, he was raised in Middleton
Ohio which is a city 29 miles from Cincinatti
That's not Hillbilly country - and not many hillbillies get private
golf lessons...