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Letter to My Health Insurance Company: Saturated Fat Is Healthy
Nov 21, 2020 Dear Sir or Madam: I am utterly dismayed that you people continually send to your customers misinformation about what is a...
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Nov 21, 20203 min read
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What a Difference a Dictionary Makes
Noah Webster Today is D Day. Excuse me, not that D Day, which was June 6, not October 16. And that year was 1944, when military forces of...
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Oct 17, 20205 min read
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Pressing the Press
Persistence pays off. “Blood on Their Hands” by Bob Brink. (Provided by TouchPoint Press) Hold that thought while I digress into an...
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Oct 8, 20205 min read
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An Open Letter to Trumpers
A week ago, I sat down and churned out a letter, stream-of-consciousness fashion, for my friend from Indiana to send to backward...
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Sep 27, 20206 min read
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Costco, Corona and Chaos
Costco Lantana, Florida It goes without saying that people are staying home much more during the virus (DV) than before the virus (BV) –...
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Sep 5, 20205 min read
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Y’all Come …
In case you’re bored, and want something to do in late happy hour time today — 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m — I will be doing a Zoom...
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Aug 18, 20201 min read
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Book Fever
Bookstore reading A pandemic can do more than send people to their early graves, create cabin fever for those quarantining or just...
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Aug 13, 20204 min read
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A Time of Love, a Time of Hate
Charles Dickens “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the...
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Jul 27, 20203 min read
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Inconsistent Fed Covid Policy
Dr. David Brownstein As an author, I am a follower of another author: Dr. David Brownstein, who has an oeuvre of 11 books, seven of them...
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Jul 13, 20204 min read
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Trumpers in a Nut Shell
John Feffer The issue of racism and police brutality toward Blacks in America is critical and must be addressed, and my new novel Blood...
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Jun 27, 20204 min read
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Trump and Religious Totalitarianism
Scene from The Handmaid’s Tale Repeatedly when I read The Handmaid’s Tale, the global best Adam Johnson In The Handmaid’s Tale, the...
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Jun 13, 20203 min read
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What President Can Trump This?
Finally, paperback copies of my novel Blood on Their Hands arrived today, in three large cardboard boxes. They look great, and now I can...
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Jun 11, 20204 min read
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Plot Parallels
George Floyd As the incident of police brutality in Minnesota unfolds on the TV screen, with more videos and evidence produced and murder...
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May 29, 20203 min read
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COVID-19 Rules: Politics, Absurdity
President Trump Government officials’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic shows perhaps more than ever before why people can’t depend on...
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May 22, 20206 min read
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Ninety-nine Cents
Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, Ninety-nine bottles of beer. Take one down and pass it around, Ninety-eight bottles of beer...
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May 16, 20202 min read
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Biden Her Time … Tic Toc
Since I’m an author, one would imagine my blog posts would be about reads, right? So this post is about a read — sort of. It’s about a...
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May 13, 20202 min read
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It’s a Bloody Comet
It’s bird! It’s a plane. No, it’s Halley’s Comet. No, it’s … Blood on Their Hands. Halley’s Comet Take a look at the pictures on this...
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May 6, 20202 min read
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The Cultists
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Apr 28, 20206 min read
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Authors in the Time of Corona
TouchPoint Press I’ve never thought of my authorial activities as a business, but here I am blocked by the same impediments that most...
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Apr 15, 20204 min read
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Our Time
One of my all-time favorite books is Our Gang, by the late, great Philip Roth. It was a deliciously devastating Philip Roth That and...
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Apr 3, 20204 min read
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