Politics | Politics
Mar.15.2013
New characters entered the current NIP. They had background stories as well as a role in the current tale.
Writing and thinking about them, I realized how much my fantasy novel employed politics, power and hubris. It's not surprising, thinking about it. Wherever there are rulers,...
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Mar.13.2013
The One Billion Rising campaign demanded “an end to this violence”. Violence does not knock on doors and seek permission to enter.
It has been almost three months since the Delhi gang rape of December 16. Ever since, the media has been carrying articles or doing television stories on different...
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Mar.09.2013
The Writer’s Chronicle, March/April 2013
This is and has been my go-to mag for writing advice, but sometimes, the academics who write for TWC go to extraordinary lengths to assay fiction. Such seems the case with David Jauss’ article in this issue with the lumbering title, “Homo Sapiens vs....
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Mar.08.2013
Chapter 7
Oval Office – 2014, Roosevelt-Hill’s second year as President
It was 6 a.m. and President Stephanie Roosevelt-Hill sat alone in the Oval office, wondering if her ethanol initiative plan would ever get off the ground. No matter how hard she tried, her ideas about...
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Mar.06.2013
I saw some polls about the sequestration today. People are unsure whether it'll be good or bad for the country. Story after story literally says people will wait and see.
(I'm a bit irked about the evolving definition of 'literally' and second definitions being added to...
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Mar.06.2013
Wheeeee, I’m sliding. Quick, thrilling, stunning. Then I see what waits for me at the bottom. Sharp, agonizing, ugly. I dig my heels in. I slow somewhat. I rest. The heels on my boots are worn smooth. I start slipping again. Downward. I reach out, grasping, burying my hands in the muck. My hands...
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Mar.04.2013
Chis Bohjalian's recent blog on town and school boards reminded me how far we have "evolved" politically since our colonial times. My experience at public meetings in both rural and urban jurisdictions (Minnesota) is not exactly the "pure...
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Mar.04.2013
The inscription under the statue of Edward VII in Phillip's Square, Montreal. Here's a video of the place.
Funny, we don't really look at statues or monuments. They are a kind of 3-D wallpaper. And we only read the inscriptions when we are tourists...
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Mar.04.2013
The deepest divide in politics isn’t between the right and the left. The greatest gap is between the politics of show and the politics of go.
The politics of...
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Mar.02.2013
I'm re-emerging after an intense week - work, write, worry, live.
Dreams have been assaulting me at night, wave after wave after wave of dreams. I dream about past work and never done work, and strange associations. Military ranks and settings insert their twists, and there are...
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