Keith B. Darrell's Blog, page 8
March 29, 2020
Dispatches from the Trenches
After three weeks of coronavirus self-quarantine, I ventured out to buy medicine and food. The streets had a third of their normal traffic. I hadnt wanted to go out but mail-order prescriptions werent an option despite my repeated online enrollment attempts and no one at the pharmacy would answer their phone to arrange a delivery. Fortunately, I thought, they had a drive-thru window so I wouldnt have to wander about the drugstore or stand in line with sick people. I asked the clerk if...
March 24, 2020
"Party On!"
The younger generation exhibits a sense of entitlement combined with a lack of accomplishment. The Millennials (and their progeny) are the most selfish, self-centered, and blissfully ignorant generation in American history. Whats worse, they wear their ignorance as a badge of honor and their belief in Ayn Rands Objectivism (Self-interest above all else) as their adopted religion. (Are there exceptions? Of course, and maybe youre one of them but remember, its the exceptions that prove the...
March 14, 2020
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
A few years ago I stepped into an elevator heading to the top floor of a South Florida office building. Theres a certain elevator etiquette one learns to follow. Its acceptable for the person already in the elevator to offer to push the button for your floor but after that the remainder of the ride typically takes place in silence. Riders stare straight ahead at the gray doors, or at the consecutively flashing floor numbers above them, or even at the floor but it would be a breach of...
March 2, 2020
Burning Down the House
Young people are the future. They always have been, from the very first generation to the present one. They are the inheritors of civilization. It’s a bequest filled with enormous responsibility, as they must pick up the torch from the previous generation and pass it on to the next hopefully improving society while not diminishing it. It’s a task many young people of each generation are eager to assume and vocal about assuming. Stewardship of our society comes with many perquisites but also...
January 31, 2020
The Day American Democracy Died
December 7, 1941. November 22, 1963. September 11, 2001. January 31, 2020. Dates that will live in infamy: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; the attack on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon; and the Day American Democracy Died.
The American Experiment with democracy began in 1776 with a declaration of independence from the British crown. American colonists eschewed authoritarian rule by a monarchy. Instead, they created a...
The American Experiment with democracy began in 1776 with a declaration of independence from the British crown. American colonists eschewed authoritarian rule by a monarchy. Instead, they created a...
December 26, 2019
Vampires Vs. Aliens, Book 3 - Just Published!
They came from a dying world to steal the Earth's water but they didn't anticipate resistance from the vampires, who realize the aliens’ plans would doom the human race... depriving the planet's furtive vampire population of its sole food source.. Now the vampires must wage a secret war against the invaders while hiding their own existence from the humans. With the unanticipated destruction of their home world, the aliens have become refugees -- but will the Earth perceive them as victims or...
December 13, 2019
Sentence First — Verdict Afterwards
The jury foreman greeted the press on the courthouse steps. “Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with the defendant’s counsel. There will be no difference between the defendant’s position and our position as to how to handle this.” Then he stepped inside to take his seat on the jury as the trial was about to begin.
As a publisher, I’d have to reject any novel that included such a scene as being too unrealistic. American courts, unlike those of some countries like, for example,...
December 6, 2019
Vampires Vs. Aliens, Book 2 - Just Published!
They came from a dying world to steal Earth's water... but they didn't anticipate resistance from the vampires, who realize the aliens' plans, if carried to fruition, would doom the human race. And with no humans or other life left on Earth, the planet's furtive vampire population would be deprived of its sole food source. Now the vampires must wage a secret war against the invaders while hiding their own existence from the humans, as the aliens also conceal their presence so the humans won't...
October 4, 2019
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