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May.16.2013
A very nice --if blush-inducing-- way to wake up: thank you, Elisabeth Zguta!
For (I hasten to add, with another double entendre blush at the wording above) her very kind review of my to-be-released-on-Tuesday FIRE OF THE PROPHET on Goodreads.com.
Ms. Elisabeth, you are officially my "first...
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May.15.2013
(chuckle) Okay, let's not quibble over the inclusion of the word "politics" in the POLITICO.com headline here (see photo). It's D.C.; politics get included in the daily "cornflakes or oat meal?" decisions at breakfast in that bustling metropolis.
But c'mon, My Fellow Newsies: could there be...
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May.15.2013
Serious Musing No. 1 this morning, sparked by an insightful discussion on author John Gilstrap's Facebook page regarding the IRS Scandal, the AP Phone-line Scandal, the Benghazi Scandal, etc.
There's a sense of disappointment & outrage growing over the current serial tsunamis of scandal in...
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May.03.2013
Here's how bad it's gotten in Prime Time radio: I'm interviewed on-air tonight at 7 p.m. EDT (please figure out your time zone yourself; all I know for certain it's 6 p.m. Central and in daylight-saving-averse Arizona) by the host of Authors On The Air, the lovely Pam Stack.
We're live --arguably...
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Apr.27.2013
Fittingly --that is to say, several days late-- today we should all celebrate the feast day of Saint Expeditus, the patron saint of procrastinators.
It was officially on April 19. But if St. E doesn't understand the delay, nobody will.
— Earl Merkel
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Apr.23.2013
GREAT NEWS!!! (well-- for me, anyhow; I invite you to test your own luck.)
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FIRE OF THE PROPHET is now available for PRE-ORDER via The iBookstore! (see link, below)While there, you can also pre-order the "prequel...
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Apr.14.2013
Yes. This is what would "taint Tiger's legacy," Sir Nick. After all, Mr. Woods has been immaculately untouched by scandal previously...
From story headlined "Tiger Woods facing player backlash for not withdrawing after wrongly signing his scorecard"
"Sir Nick Faldo was just one of those here...
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Apr.14.2013
Ever helpful & considerate, Google has launched a digital equivalent of "porn buddy."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ technology/2013/apr/12/ google-inactive-account-manager -digital-death
Google launches tool to help users plan for digital afterlife: New "Inactive Account Manager...
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Apr.13.2013
Faithful Readers here have likely noticed that I tend to be inordinately focused on news stories wherein the media either does, or does not, do the job it exists to do.
Two articles --one, a rather straightforward bombshell story by USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers; the other, an oddly...
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Apr.12.2013
From our "What, ME Worry?/Careful Bureaucrat-Speak Subcategory" -files:
"So we do not operate on the assumption that they have that fully tested, developed capacity."
"We are all united in the fact that North Korea will not be accepted as a nuclear power."
—U.S. Secretary Of State John Kerry...
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