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July 12, 2013
WHAT IS THE GAP THEORY (TGT)?
The title of this week’s post is a very common question generated after taking a quick glance at this site’s homepage. As the blurb states, my new novel, Epoch Dawning, started out as a piece of fiction attempting to explain…Read more ›
July 5, 2013
STATE PREJUDICE?
When the Supreme Court made its two recent rulings about equality—one in regards to voting rights and the other in regard to marriage—I initially found the rulings contradictory. After all, the court in one sense seemed to rule for marriage…Read more ›
June 28, 2013
END7
Practicing medicine in this country truly is a luxury because as a physician, I have access to all the tools I could ever imagine to treat my patients. Even if the place I am in doesn’t have something or someone,…Read more ›
June 21, 2013
THE LURE OF SECURITY
When people think of the USA, normally they think of excess, opportunity and wealth. However, I was recently surprised to find that, despite living in a first-world nation, we seem to have a growing third-world problem: food insecurity. The state…Read more ›
June 14, 2013
STATISTICAL SENSATIONALISM
We live in a time when many hazardous things happen on a daily basis, ranging from the accustomed and banal (paper cuts) to the dramatic and lethal (the Boston marathon bombings). Instances such as the latter are truly horrific and…Read more ›
June 7, 2013
KEEP ALL CHANNELS OPEN
As the nation’s elected leaders yet again debate another hot topical issue (immigration), they have made the perpetual mistake of organizing themselves into two distinct factions, based on the erroneous assumption that they are mutually exclusive—if you are not on…Read more ›
May 31, 2013
EPOCH DAWNING SAMPLE CHAPTER: THE BROTHERS
Below is the free sample chapter from my novel, Epoch Dawning. Enjoy! THE BROTHERS In the not-to-distant past, the room began to quiet as the speaker approached the podium and adjusted the wireless microphone projecting from his earpiece. Although…Read more ›
May 24, 2013
THE HIDDEN PONZI SCHEMES
The unscrupulous Charles Ponzi became famous in the early 1900s for deploying the well-known “Ponzi scheme” upon hopeless investors who dreamed of fast money and exorbitant returns. Essentially, Mr. Ponzi’s system penalized a large group of people for the benefit…Read more ›
May 17, 2013
THE DILEMMA
The blog has so far addressed topics that have shaken it up a little bit. Now I thought it appropriate to take it up a notch. In light of the recent 40th anniversary of Roe vs Wade, this week’s post…Read more ›
