2016-01-18 21:40
On this great day, let us not forget exactly who MLK was. He was not what the mainstream media portrays him [1] to be and certainly not what the vast majority of people think he is [2]. This… Read More
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A blog about World Affairs, writing, with fictional short stories and longform opinion pieces that take a deeper look at the world around us.
2016-01-11 01:39
I started the Smackdown alert a year ago or so. So I've gone on and updated the original post. There have been a few more eloquent smackdowns since then, enjoy them all. Also, I've als… Read More
2016-01-09 00:24
It's a funny thing when one gets lost on their daily commute. I have an excuse, though, for it was late at night and those infernal white crystals were being spit at me from the heavens, qui… Read More
2016-01-07 03:24
It's been some snowy days here in the Inland NW. And the drifting, muffling snowscape gets one to thinking. And when the thinking gets too much—for not one of us is interesting e… Read More
2016-01-05 09:55
There's been something of a rise in adults using coloring books to de-stress. The above is an example of a new kind of adult coloring book. Well, it's more de-stressing, but in the form of p… Read More
2015-12-30 20:27
I've recently taken to reading offline. No, not just books (even in those terms a dedicated ereader could be considered offline) but magazines. I think it's been about more than a deca… Read More
2015-12-29 23:09
"A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mocker… Read More
2015-12-19 00:46
Some people have been mocking a certain branch of Algo’s never-ending story. Luckily I’ve been allowed to transplant the story here, with the author’s permission. A few tho… Read More
2015-12-10 11:09
Art is a funny thing (see about that which I discuss "art as life" here). Hard for someone (a pleb, admittedly) like me to truly appreciate the entire enterprise, outside of that which impre… Read More
2015-12-08 11:03
I started this a couple years ago, the best books of the year. The best books I read in a year, at least, not necessarily the books from that year. Here are the previous lists, from 2013 and… Read More
2015-12-02 01:44
For the few that know, if you know, I mentioned a while back that profits of the royalties would go to the a Syrian fund that helped the refugees and victims of that war. Unfortunately, that… Read More
2015-12-02 00:55
By now you must be familiar with Tim, that oddball cousin of Gerad's. Recently we found a little story he wrote (and even more recently, we found more). We're not certain if this was before… Read More
2015-11-29 00:16
It's funny to try to judge someone and someone's work from a distance, and yet we do this all the time when considering public people. Of course, this leaves us open to making quick judgment… Read More
2015-11-17 07:21
Here we are in the aftermath of the Paris attacks and I'm trying to make myself disciplined enough to not retort on my Twitter feed to the plethora of people who are touting Islamophobia and… Read More
2015-11-09 04:09
This is a confession more so than an essay or critique... I suppose that I should expect as much on a cold and wet autumn day; those rain-smeared glass windows mimicking their stained… Read More
2015-11-03 05:46
I mentioned in the previous post that sometimes editing was akin to shipping away at a stone block (that initial, usually formless first draft) trying to create something like a story… Read More
2015-11-02 06:13
The end of every major book of mine is followed by a refractory period. This quiet, solemn time is a moment for reflection. For my most recent book, the Labyrinth of Souls, this feeling has… Read More
2015-10-31 06:04
Just got the news that the ebook is out. So click on the picture below (or link back there in the previous sentence) and get the book today. Price will go up after a week, so get it while yo… Read More
2015-10-17 23:55
Once again I’ve been remiss in updating you, my dear readers [1]. So I’m back and stand ready to inform you about the many things I’ve been doing, to include having been bu… Read More
2015-09-30 05:04
So I have been meaning to speak about ISIS and that specific issue. Once again it has come to the fore, especially with regards to the refugee crisis. I will certainly deal with it in due t… Read More
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