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June 21, 2011
What are reasonable limits on our privacy?
A second edition of the FBI's "Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide" is currently under revision and will be out on October 1. Is this a new and improved version? Hardly. While emotional rants from organizations like the ACLU are expected in this and all similar cases, a saner review tells you that it's just more of the same—and that's the problem. What are reasonable limits on our privacy? How much of our privacy are we willing to lose in order to protect ourselves from...
June 18, 2011
Evil Agenda – Chapters Forty-Two and Forty-Three
Evil Agenda
Steven M. Moore
Copyright, 2010
This serialized novel is a work of fiction. All resemblance to real persons and events is purely coincidental. It takes place in the future, sometime between my novels Full Medical and Soldiers of God.
The content of this serialization is expressly for the enjoyment of visitors to my website. Any downloading, reproduction, or redistribution of all or part of this content is prohibited without my permission.
Chapter Forty-Two
Our little trio flew into ...
June 16, 2011
Steve's shorts: Character Assassination
This was available for some time for next-to-nothing on Amazon Shorts. Alas, the latter has been sacrificed to the marketing gods–Amazon's loss, your gain, especially if you have read my sci-fi thriller Full Medical. An old friend was upset that I killed off his favorite character in that book, so I resurrected him, in a sense. Enjoy.
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Character Assassination
Steven M. Moore
Copyright, 2007
"Your holiness, sir, I really want to lodge a complaint."
St. Peter twirled the keys to the gates to...
Arrogance and narcissism…
I love it when a politician steps forward and says, "I humbly bow to the will of my voters," or some similar doggerel. Most politicians aren't humble about anything—"humble politician" is what I would call an "approximate oxymoron." Diogenes, the first famous cynic and one of my heroes, would be hard put to find a humble politician no matter how bright his lamp. Yes, I realize that some people are humble and are, in effect, pushed into office—during high school I certainly didn't want to b...
June 14, 2011
Unemployment and the AARP…
Many people view AARP as a relatively harmless special interest group. Now this view might become more cemented in the national conscience since Betty White is doing some irreverent and risqué commercials for them. However, I'm not particularly a fan of AARP. During the debate about drug coverage for seniors, they sold out to Mr. Bush and Big Pharma. The result was Medicare Part D with the famous donut hole, that extension to Medicare that confuses many seniors and allows insurance...
June 11, 2011
Evil Agenda – Chapter Forty-One
Evil Agenda
Steven M. Moore
Copyright, 2010
This serialized novel is a work of fiction. All resemblance to real persons and events is purely coincidental. It takes place in the future, sometime between my novels Full Medical and Soldiers of God.
The content of this serialization is expressly for the enjoyment of visitors to my website. Any downloading, reproduction, or redistribution of all or part of this content is prohibited without my permission.
Chapter Forty-One
"Clear!" said Denise.
Les a...
