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I’m Working on Chapter

Im also trying to figure out why my sale for today (almost everything in my control is supposed to be 99c for ebooks) hasnt gone live. Ill go kick the publishing computer and let you know.
Im just trying to help people who are going stir crazy.
Anyone want to have a reading on zoom?  Im thinking of doing the first Saturday Huns dinner on Zoom. Anyone interested? I mean, I cant FEED you, but I can have dinner with you, if you guys want to.

Look Beyond The Virus: The Left Wants Us Destroyed And They’ve Got The Means By Bill Reader

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Look Beyond The Virus: The Left Wants Us Destroyed And Theyve Got The Means

By Bill Reader

  Authors Note: Throughout this article I have referred to the Wuhan Virusthe name that follows the standard practice of naming viruses after their place of origin, said practice being adhered to in the case of all pandemics not originating in countries that have multi-billion dollar disinformation apparatuses at their disposalas the CCP virus, using the convention put forth by the ...

Seven Days In March

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I do not claim to have a crystal ball. I can create plausible enough future worlds to write about, though to be fair Im not trying to make them correct, Im trying to make them interesting, which is why sometimes miracles are invoked and dressed in the robes of science. Because it makes it more interesting to read about and my job is to entertain, not to forecast.

Which is good. Because on 9/11 while people on TV kept saying it had changed our world utterly, I sat there, paralyzed and...

Same Panic, Different Century? by Alma Boykin

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Wet weather the year before had damaged the northern wheat harvest, causing prices to rise and farmers to fear bankruptcy. A trade fight hurt luxury exports, causing more economic uncertainty. People heard rumors of trouble, of outside agitators, of old enemies moving to disrupt the country, and new enemies planning to assault the rightful ruler. People aired their complaints and fears in messages to the government, voicing concerns about the...

I’m Done – A Guest post by Michael Hooten

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Im Done A Guest post by Michael Hooten

You know, I used to be among the group that believed that President Trumps twitter usage was no big deal.  I thought he used it to tweak the press, to get them to overreact, and to generally misdirect them while he did other, more significant things in the background.

Not any more.

Now, I believe that he should tweet more, and find even more ways to subvert the press to get his message out, and to do so with all the passion and bombacity he has ever...

Interesting Times

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Tomorrow is likely to be one of the more interesting and possibly most difficult day in several years.  So in anticipation of that, Im writing this post on Sunday night, so maybe I wont forget half of it and wander off, as Im wont to do.

Yes, its entirely possible thats what happened to the vignettes yesterday.

To compound it all, while personal life keeps being interesting (nothing really horribly bad, so far, just one emergency after another.  Nothing final. Yet. (Knocks on head.)) there...

Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike and Book Promo

*Sorry to be so late.  Someday maybe Ill share the story of these last few weeks. Nothing bad has happened, at least not yet, but there are several things worrying me, mostly things I can do nothing about. Theyll either turn out well, or they wont. They are actually already decided and completely out of my hands. And Ill find out about most of them over the next week, some others over the next couple of months. There is nothing so designed to drive a person with imagination insane.  I spend...

Chapter Might be Tomorrow

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Sorry, we were taking care of a bunch of things as our state shuts down around us because our math-retarded and panicking governor has ordered no more than 250 people anywhere at the same time.  I think he has no idea how many 250 people actually are. Also, frankly, sure, 250 people in a small room could be a danger (of someone catching a bad cold which if theyre stupid enough to expose themselves while they have other risk factors could kill them, yes (and I say that as someone with risk...

A State of Madness

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There is an appeal to insanity, a certain joy in letting go and joining the howling.

The Mass Media which had found theyd lost their power when trying to lead us in the paths they thought rational, have discovered they can still scare us.  This makes them very happy, and has convinced them that they will soon have us voting for whom they want us to, by the power of stampeding.

I find myself in the position of an outsider, staring at the madness going on around me, and wondering what the heck...

Unintended Consequences

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Unintended consequences are the bane of social engineers. They are why the Scientific and centralized method of governance never worked and will never work. (Sorry, guys, it just wont.)

Part of it is because humans are contrary. Part of is because humans are chaotic. And part of it is be cause like weather systems, societies are so complex its almost impossible to figure out what a push in any given place will cause to happen in another place.

This is why price controls are the craziest of...