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July 26, 2020
Letters from the Pre-Information Age
COVID has forced us all to go very virtual. Over the last four months, “virtual” may have overtaken “very” as the most common adjective in the English language. Everything has […]
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July 19, 2020
I Can’t Hate Hemingway. Or My Grandmother.
My Big Sister thinks I should be ashamed to admit this, but I love Ernest Hemingway. Sissy reminded me just the other day that Papa H was a “Misogynist Racist […]
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July 12, 2020
Iconoclasm 101
Feels a little strange, doesn’t it? Statues coming down all over America. Remember how we cheered when Iraqis pulled down every Saddam? Or a decade earlier how we huzzahed with […]
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July 5, 2020
Long Hot Summer Days
It’s hot. And humid. I mean feels-like-walking-through-boiled-molasses hot summer. Not just here in Virginia, according to Weather Underground, but the entirety of the Perspired States of America. It’s just turned […]
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June 28, 2020
Last Century’s Pandemic
I’ve written three novels all set during a pandemic. Okay, I advertise these books as “First World War and 1920s,” but that includes the time of what is known as […]
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June 21, 2020
Your Write Turn: The Family Business
After a four-month corona-quarantine hiatus, this is the eighth installment in my randomly periodic “Your Write Turn” series of blog posts. I’ve discussed choosing writing as a second career, assessing […]
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June 14, 2020
Can Broken Policing Be Fixed?
The last few weeks have seen a rapidly coalescing consensus that policing in the United States is broken, that it’s persistently biased against black Americans as well as over-militarized and […]
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June 7, 2020
Racial Bias in Military Justice Is Real
Something remarkable happened this week. In the midst of militarized police and policing military personnel, leadership of the American armed services stepped up to defend the Constitution-—starting with a couple […]
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May 31, 2020
Should the USA Be Saved?
I’ve only written one blog post that made me as sad as this one. It was my confession of being instrumental in a miscarriage of justice when I was an […]
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May 24, 2020
I Scream, You Scream
Last week I posted my old prosecutor’s thoughts on how to analyze a sexual assault allegation, using the current accusation by Tara Reade against Joe Biden as my case study. […]
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