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Category Archives: Caution: You’ve Been wEdged
Pardon Me… Do I Know You?
(Reprinted with permission from Signature Montana Magazine)http://www.signaturemontana.com/ Welcome to Great Falls, Montana, birthplace of Linda Ann Hopkins and Sheila Young. If those names aren’t familiar, maybe you’ve heard of Tera Patrick or Victoria Paris? These two women are near the … Continue reading
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Putting my History/Poli Sci Degree to Use…Over at HubPages.
http://baizblogger.hubpages.com/hub/Economist-Joseph-Steiglitz-Rent-Seeking What’s ‘rent-seeking’? It’s quietly creating unearned wealth and widening the economic gap in the USA. Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz explains it to me here…
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Ten Good Reasons to Lose the Lottery: Why Bad Luck Might Just be Good
10. My Cat. Winning the lottery would be awful for Beats, my 15-year old mackerel tabby. Our old house is the only home he’s ever known Beats is Lord and Master of his Castle, adorned with human food servers and … Continue reading
August Fifteenth NYC
The City soggy with joy hailed my return by halting everyone at JFK Better than a ticker-tape parade I got a two hour wash-and-wait on the tarmac a hundred feet short of Gate 8 Then, I got The … Continue reading
The Voldemort Rule: Let’s not Create a Mantra for Madmen
Hitler. Idi Amin. Osama Bin Laden, Anders Behring Breivik, Jared Lougher, Wade Michael Page. The names of the damned have a power of their own. Just saying them aloud sets up a vibration, a vulnerability, the kind of infamy … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Behring Breivik, Arizona shooting, Broadcast Media, Colorado Movie Theater Shooter, gun control, Jared Loughner, Mass Murder, media lack of restraint, News coverage of sensational events, Print Media, semi automatic weapons, Social network coverage of mass murder, Texas A&M Shooter, Voldemort, Wade Michael Page
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Pogo looks at Chris Hedges “Careerist” Editorial
In response to Chris Hedges’ “Careerists” editorial on TruthDig today (07/23/12), I let out my “inner Pogo” http://www.truthdig.com/report/page3/the_careerists_20120723/ The only humans who are not contributing to the circumstances of economic and social destruction are the people who are already suffering … Continue reading
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Why read a bad book? A story doesn’t have to win a Pulitzer to provide a lesson. Here’s an excerpt from my ‘writer’s review’ of Matthew Reilly’s Seven Deadly Wonders: …”And there’s a ‘yadda, yadda’ aura around quite a few … Continue reading
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If you’re an aspiring fiction writer, head on over to Hub Pages for the first of fourteen posts about the Crime Fiction Academy. http://baizblogger.hubpages.com/hub/For-Aspiring-Crime-Fiction-Writers-The-Scene-of-the-Crime-Fiction-Academy-Center-for-Fiction-NYC
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My LRLL (Laundry Room Lending Library)
Perhaps I’m reading too much into the Laundry Room Lending Library. If you live in a New York City co-op or condo, you might be lucky enough to have a collection of secondhand books sharing the basement with washers, dryers … Continue reading
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