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Natural Selection released on Amazon
My short story “Natural Selection” has been released as an eBook at Amazon.com. This story has previously been available at Smashwords.com and other retailers (see my eBook Store Page), but this is the first time it is available at Amazon.com, … Continue reading
Our Past, Look Away, Look Away
We began this week with the news that a new n-word-scrubbed edition of Huckleberry Finn is being published. The reaction in most places where literary people congregate was mostly negative. Huckleberry Finn has been considered controversial ever since it was … Continue reading
Who speaks for earth?
On this day in 1996 we lost Carl Sagan. Dr. Sagan was one of those rare scientists who could explain difficult scientific concepts to non-scientists in a compelling and understandable way without dumbing it down and without a trace of … Continue reading
The Wealth of a Nation
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in … Continue reading
The Phantom World Order
To set the record straight, I’m not prone to conspiracy theories. President Obama was born in Hawaii, the US government does not have a secret stash of extraterrestrial corpses, Elvis is dead, and Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK all by … Continue reading

