I must confess, I have always been interested in things that are beyond the norm….UFOs, automatic writing, ESP and things of a similar ilk. Why? Maybe there is a part of me that sees the chinks in the armor of the...
Read MoreA new article in Foreign Affairs magazine looks at two recent books that are pointing us towards that possibility. The books are The Human Tide by Paul Morland and Empty Planet by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson. Like many...
Read MoreI almost called this blog “can you shorten your book please?” I read a lot of books. One of my pet peeves is that many authors appear to be getting paid by the word..certainly by the number of pages. Most books could...
Read MoreRepublicans are trying to co-opt the term “socialists” as some kind of boogeyman term to strike fear in the hearts of Americans. Don’t fall for it! Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post recently wrote an...
Read MoreMaybe I’m showing my age….but everyone I knew growing up had their mother at some point or another say to them, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.” Right? However, we seem...
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