Browsing all posts in March, 2012.

Sgt. Bales’ Lawyer Should Ask If He Was A Secret Drug Guinea Pig

Was Staff Sergeant Robert Bales a secret drug guinea pig in the military’s attempts to chemically enhance warfighter efficiency? The proof that such a program to develop a “brave pill” existed can be found in these Government Freedom Of Information (FOIA) documents from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and in the extensive  factual […]

Why Did I Have to Wait for My Mama to Die Before I Could Write Perfect Killer?

Perfect Killer was a substantial departure for me and a book that had to wait for my mother to die before I could write it. This book is a departure for two reasons: First of all, I’ve tried to write two books inside a single set of covers: a Southern novel wrapped inside a thriller. […]

Perfect Killer Succeeds As Fiction AND Fact

I set out to write a non-fiction book on why good people do evil things. Perfect Killer— originally published in 2005 by Forge/Tor — has a lot of current significance in the cases of the: Robert Bales Afghan massacre, Trayvon Martin case and Mohamed Merah assassinations in France. ARE THERE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF EVIL? Clearly, […]

We Are All Staff Sgt Robert Bales

We are all Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. My last post here (From Saint To Devil: A Path Carved By Head Injury), examined a real-life, medically researched case of Phineas Gage, who was transformed by a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) from a fine, upstanding man into a profane, violent thug. I ran across Gage’s case as a […]

From Saint To Devil: A Path Carved By Head Injury

Phineas Gage woke up one day as a saint and went to bed a devil. All thanks to a brain injury. The following comes from Chapter 32 of my fact-based, investigative thriller, Perfect Killer which deals, among other things, about how the ability to act morally and “do the right thing” can be altered by […]

California Poppies Popping In Our Backyard!

March 4 The first California poppies of 2012 blooming in the native plant garden in our back yard. 75 degrees and sunny! Wider view