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January 2, 2017
Irish Stew #58…
[Double billing today…don’t get used to it, but 2017 is starting out with a lot of news to comment on. Don’t be shy. Your comments are always welcome, even rants. Just keep them clean!]
International
Russia and Syria declare ceasefire. How nice of them! Who’s speaking for the rebels? We have an international refugee crisis in the area; Aleppo, Palmyra, and other cities are completely destroyed and their populations dead; and Assad and Putin are patting each other on the back and chortling abo...
Monday words of wisdom…
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.—Jonathan Swift
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Rogue Planet. Hidden away from near-Earth planets in remote spiral arms of the Galaxy are Human worlds that have lost contact with more progressive worlds and reverted to strange and primitive customs and traditions, their leaders using religion, superstition, and imported technologies to rule in tyranny. Survey ships explored and catalogued these planets as suitable for future colo...
December 31, 2016
Happy New Year!
To all readers and reviewers, friends and followers, and connections on Goodreads, Facebook, LinkedIn and elsewhere, and to your own friends and family, have a safe, happy New Year and prosperous, secure, and healthy lives for all of 2017.
In libris libertas!
December 29, 2016
2017 challenges…
New Year’s resolutions never work for me. I have the same problem most people have: making them impossible to keep. This is the time everyone reassesses their goals and priorities, though, so I’ll jump on that bandwagon. Although I do that continuously, and make choices I often follow to completion, sometimes to my detriment, call this my writing plan for 2017. (Don’t writing gurus tell you to always have one, and that will guarantee you a bestseller?)
First, I want to do a bit more socializi...
December 27, 2016
Food for thought…
There’s a lot of non-productive whining and misdirected finger pointing by defeated Dems still going on, considering that an arrogant HRC campaign simply dropped the ball, as well as non-justified chest thumping by certain knuckle-dragging GOP members, considering Trump had almost 3 million fewer votes than HRC. Both sides were ready to use the Electoral College to their advantage. Now one side abhors it and the other lauds the wisdom of the Founding Fathers for creating it. Those old colonis...
December 26, 2016
Monday words of wisdom…
A man with talent has a head start. A man with drive succeeds.—Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
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More than Human: The Mensa Contagion. A trilogy in one book: ETs send a “gift” to humanity, a virus contained in a probe that crashes in South Africa and modifies human genetics. But is it a gift or a prelude to invasion? Colonizing Mars speeds up as a way to have an outpost farther out in the solar system and increase our chances for survival. When humans discover the ET ship in the far reaches of the...
December 22, 2016
From 2016 to 2017…
First of all, to all readers, thank you for reading! A love of books is one of the foundations of freedom; access to books is another. (Read Fahrenheit 451 for the proof.) If you’ve had occasion to read some of my works, a double thank you. I am honored and humbled that you’ve done so because I know you have many books to choose from. It’s a readers’ world! If you ever have questions for me, use the contact page—I’ll answer them to the best of my ability. For a quick summary, I can’t say 2016...
December 21, 2016
Pre-Release Excerpt from Oasis Redux…
[Note to my readers: This post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel will be released late in 2017, if not before. This excerpt is to whet your appetite. It’s taken from the middle of the novel. Penny Castro, ex-LA county sheriff’s deputy has managed to survive the apocalypse and is currently forced to live with her adopted family in a refugee camp near Edwards AFB. She has just returned from a trip to fill tankers with water…]
One week later I learned the truth in the adage that you can be a victim of yo...
December 20, 2016
Capitalism loves fascism…
The title is the easiest and most profound explanation for why the NYSE is doing so well. It’s also the eight-hundred-pound gorilla in the pundits’ room that they don’t want to mention. The reverse is also true, of course: fascism loves capitalism. They can be Satan’s two partners for leading us down the road to a despotic government. That’s a yellow-brick road that isn’t gold but old, dry cow pies; it starts with the Roman Empire and before, passes through 1930s’ Berlin, and leads to too man...
December 19, 2016
Irish Stew #57…
International
Let’s go to war! Cyber warfare, of course. Maybe Obama actually said to Putin, “We can do stuff to you,” but he’s been like a turtle swimming in molasses with his actions against the Russian despot. And it’s not just Putin’s hackers. We should declare cyber warfare against all hackers. The bozos who stole more than 1 billion plus users’ info from Yahoo (obviously not just U.S. users are represented) and are selling it on the dark web should be tracked down and thrown in jail. Ed...
