Thanks to a long vacation and the catch-up in its aftermath, today's Heinlein Centenary caught me unprepared. So, here's a roundup of what others have had to say on the topic this week:

John Derbyshire at National Review Online posts RAH's famous "This I Believe" speech in its entirety:

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets—to the stars and beyond—carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

The LA Times (of all papers) posts a glowing retrospective of Heinlein through the lens of Southern California culture. And is promptly taken to task by a Heinlein fan who points out the California of today would make the man weep.

Heinlein's short story "Jerry Was a Man" has been filmed as an episode of the Starz/ABC series Masters of Science Fiction. The episode will air on August 18, and features Malcolm McDowell and Anne Heche.

Dwayne Day takes a walk down memory lane, reexamining 62 years later the ideas and predictions in Heinlein's resignation letter to the Naval Air Material Center at the end of WWII. It certainly gives one a different perspective on The Return of William Proxmire as alternate history.

John Miller has a piece on Heinlein in the dead-tree/subscription National Review (which I could swear I read in its entirety online this week, but I can't find a link for it).

Phil Bowermaster says Citizen of the Galaxy is his favorite Heinlein book, and invites readers to share their own favorites. My personal favorite is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, thanks to the exploration of political and economic themes (something like an Atlas Shrugged for SF geeks), but for pure entertainment value, I've always liked The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. It's so deliciously weird and atmospheric that I'm surprised they didn't pick it over the uninspiring Jerry Was a Man as Heinlein's "Masters of Science Fiction" entry.