Browsing all posts in September, 2012.
Tesla Lives Here … And Edison Lives There (#1 In A Series)
Tesla Lives Here Edison Lives There Fluorescents, mercury vapor lamps, neon, modern. Alternating current More heat than light. Energy waster. So yesterday. Read The Tesla Bequest, now a Kindle ebook at at Amazon.
It’s Not Orange, It’s Persimmon, Damnit!
CLICK IMAGE BELOW TO MAKE IT INTERACTIVE This article from The Atlantic: It’s Not Pink, It’s Fuchsia: Women Like Complex Names for Their Colors got me to thinking about describing colors in my writing. According to The Atlantic article: Stephen Von Worley used data from an XKCD color survey, where more than 5 million users […]
We Are All Salman Rushdie In The War Against Radical Islam
Amid the lurid insanity of Islamists rioting and killing over insults, we forget that the leading powers of political Islam as practiced today have been trying to kill Salman Rushdie for 23 years now. Not over a sophomoronic attempt at a video, but because he wrote The Satanic Verses — a remarkably well written and […]
Bless The Dutch Libraries!
The Netherlands is a small country, but my books have always been popular there. However, I didn’t expect to get a check for $240.12 as payment for copies of Daughter of God that had been lent by libraries! Thank goodness that my agent, Natasha Kern, managed to keep foreign rights when the book was sold […]
ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY!
Lots of people just turn away when confronted with the reality of the icky-ness of what an obstetric fistula is. Totally gross. GET OVER IT! And help the 30,000 – 50,000 women who suffer from this EVERY YEAR. Read my last post, (Watch PBS, Help Fight Today’s Primitive Horror Against Women) then … DO IT […]
Watch PBS, Help Fight Today’s Primitive Horror Against Women
The horror of child brides extends far beyond stolen childhoods and includes horrendous injuries and death. As I’ve written recently on the web and in my book Die By Wire, it’s a primitive practice abandoned in the developed world, but perpetuated and justified today by cultural Islamists who insist that Islam’s founder deflowered a young […]
Anti-Muslim Film Obscures Real Islamist Evils
The biggest problem with a crude video like the “Innocence of Muslims” is that it obscures a rational, fact-based discussion of the very real evils underpinning today’s Islamist movement. Sam Bacile’s badly done, incendiary polemic provokes a psychological reaction that discourages critical thinking. It encourages some people to dismiss the valid evils of current-day Islamists. […]
Calls To Censor Anti-Muslim Film Are New McCarthyism
Bacile’s anti-Muslim film was an amateurish piece of trash. So is the drivel we get from the Ku Klux Klan and spinoffs. But America’s First Amendment protects them both. Bacile certainly is stupid, stupid, stupid. But Professor Butler is wrong, wrong, wrong. She tried to walk some of that back — or sugarcoat it a […]
What Would The Prophet Protest Today?
Out of my own personal spiritual interest — and in then process of research for faith-driven thrillers like Die By Wire, Perfect Killer and Daughter of God — I have read the Qu’ran from beginning to end at least three times. If the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) were alive today, his protest would […]
The Amazon Conundrum
The Amazon Conundrum sounds like the title of one of my thrillers, but it’s about thrillers rather than being one. See, Amazon has this “Prime” program for Customers and for Kindle books. For customers, the select program starts with paying $75 per year to get unlimited free shipping. It’s a damned good deal. I’ve been […]
