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“Fascist States of America” Series #5: Parsing the Message…

[Note: This series will focus entirely on combatting fascism in America and around the world with my only weapon, words. (I’m not an NRA member!) It’s not antifa per se; it’s pro democracy. If you recognize words blasting your political preferences here, you’re part of the problem! To the rest of you, don’t worry about me. The fascist plutocracy of the 0.1% doesn’t do their own dirty work; and their toadies who do, don’t read very much, like their lord and savior, Donald J. Trump. So I doubt the...

Review of Jonathon Alter’s His Very Best: Jimmy Carter. A Life…

[This is the second part of today’s two-fer. A review of a non-fiction book? Yes, in addition to binge-reading mysteries, thrillers, and sci-fi novels, I delve into doorstops when they catch my eye. Here’s a review of one.]

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter. A Life. Jonathon Alter, author (Simon & Schuster, 978-1-5011-2548-5). The author, a fellow resident of Montclair, NJ, never responded to my email of congratulations and greetings, but he has written one hell of a biography about the least understo...

Chen and Castilblanco…

[This post is a bit repetitive with one back in 2020. Consider it an encore for the detectives. They deserve it. And today you get a two-fer, this post plus the following book review. Enjoy.]

I have a few series (at last count six; or seven, if you count A. B. Carolan’s “ABC Sci-Fi Mysteries”), so every once and a while I pause and take stock of that part of my oeuvre. None of my series are as long as Sue Grafton’s; I stopped reading hers at “C,” I believe, and she never made it to “Z.” It’s not...

Pelosi Republicans?

“Sticks and stones may break my bones (the insurrection at the Capitol) but names will never hurt me” (Republican Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger being called Pelosi Republicans by a fascist Kevin McCarthy). McCarthy and the two Jims, Banks and Jordan, are fascist lackeys of their wannabe fuehrer Donald Trump! None of that trio is a true conservatives by any stretch of the imagination, only stupid serfs of America’s fascist plutocracy bent on destroying American democracy.

In my “Fascist St...

“Fascist States of America” Series #4: The fascist Supreme Court…

[Note: This series will focus entirely on combatting fascism in America and around the world with my only weapon, words. (I’m not an NRA member!) It’s not antifa per se; it’s pro democracy. If you recognize words blasting your political preferences here, you’re part of the problem! To the rest of you, don’t worry about me. The fascist plutocracy of the 0.1% doesn’t do their own dirty work; and their toadies who do, don’t read very much, like their lord and savior, Donald J. Trump. So I doubt the...

Water shortages…

Keeping with this Monday’s weather theme, let me discuss some consequences of global warming I’ve been worried about for a while, ever since I pounded stakes and did other menial and brain-numbing chores for a civil engineer in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Arriving home to tank up on water and take salt pills, my thoughts would start this way: It wouldn’t take much drought to turn my agricultural home turf into a barren no-man’s land.

While we tend to focus on extreme weather events as ...

Politicized weather?

You have to wonder why Rupert Murdoch wants his own Fox weather channel. The only reason I can think of is that he’d like to promote the fascist view of climate change using anti-global warming rants masquerading as weather news. Or maybe they’ll be talking about a hurricane and blame Biden and the Dems?

One thing I long ago learned about the Murdoch family: You can’t trust them! They’re dishonest about the news, far beyond a bias (they even managed to piss off Trump—go figure!). Their commentat...

“Fascist States of America” Series: The generals’ moment…

[Note: This series will focus entirely on combatting fascism in America and around the world with my only weapon, words. (I’m not an NRA member!) It’s not antifa per se; it’s pro democracy. If you recognize words blasting your political preferences here, you’re part of the problem! To the rest of you, don’t worry about me. The fascist plutocracy of the 0.1% doesn’t do their own dirty work; and their toadies who do, don’t read very much, like their lord and savior, Donald J. Trump. So I doubt the...

A potpourri of authors’ antics…

It’s always amusing when certain authors’ antics prove how weird members of our group can be. I suppose I shouldn’t find those antics strange; after all, we work at our craft alone. This solitary confinement could make anyone become a weird recluse, conspiracy theorist, or paranoid suffering from agoraphobia. I have to leave the house and observe human beings once and a while to recalibrate at times (something that was less likely at the height of the Covid pandemic, of course). But I’d be incor...

An attack on voting rights is an attack on democracy…

In other words, those fascist Good Ole Piranhas in certain states (fascist insurrectionists Cruz and Hawley and other fascists in Congress aren’t among them—they’ve already done their damage) are willing to destroy a 265-year-old democracy to morph it into an autocratic plutocracy, incorrectly proving Putin, Xi, and other demagogues correct, that democracy just doesn’t work. Their reasons should be clear: Il Duce (aka Trump), the plutocrat’s pawn and lemming-in-chief, led the GOP lemmings over t...