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Take THAT! Paul Ryan
And the meme goes on! Actual weight 45 pounds (four 10-lb plates plus bar. Since I don’t have those cool House of Reps gym barbells, I must assemble my own from what’s around my garage gym. And … I’m just funnin’ here. This is not an endorsement or a put-down. I’m a registered Democrat who […]
Ku Klux Klan Taliban & The Evil of Muslim Silence
In my last two books I spent a lot of time wrestling with the issue of God, faith and why good people do bad things — or allow evil to continue. Why did good Germans tolerate Nazi atrocities? Why did good Southern white people tolerate the Ku Klux Klan and institutionalized racism, lynchings and other […]
Giant Legacy Publishers Screw Libraries: Only Amazon Can Stop Them
Big publishers are screwing public libraries, but here’s an idea how Amazon could put a stop to them — and help readers, authors and itself at the same time. PROBLEM #1: Some big publishers — Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin — refuse to sell any ebooks to libraries. The excerpt below, from an open […]
8 Great Philosophical Questions We’ll Never Answer
This blog post on io9 is an awesome one: 8 Great Questions We’ll Never Solve. We’ll never answer them, but there is an existential imperative to keep asking them and to wrestle our own private angels (or demons) for an answer. If you’re an atheist, wrestle because you can prove the answer. Otherwise, wrestle because […]
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 […]
