The Mage-Fire War Is Out!
Today is the release date of The Mage-Fire War, the third book about Beltur and Jessyla, and the 22nd book of the Recluce Saga. The Mage-Fire War is available in hardcover, ebook, or audiobook., and is...
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Since at least the time of Triumphs in Imperil Rome, the phrase “fame is fleeting” recurs, year after year, generation after generation… and yet today, at least the United States, we have more and more...
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I’ve often been criticized for the “slow” pace of my books, especially by the “action junkies” who expect a fight, revelation, or surprise in every chapter, or at the least every other chapter. Now,...
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In the last few years, apparently the younger generation has suddenly discovered history, and in discovering it, they’ve learned, and have been outraged in many cases to discover that historic...
View ArticleWhite Privilege?
In the twitter community and elsewhere, there’s been a lot made of “white privilege.” While most of what’s said about what’s called white privilege is unfortunately true, I have a problem with the...
View ArticleArticle 2
The books I’ve read this summer, the ones that I’d recommend,that is, include: The Scornful Stars by Richard Baker, which I read as an advance copy and which is just as good, if not better, than the...
View ArticlePrime USPS
Last Sunday, we received a package. It wasn’t a special package. It wasn’t sent special delivery or by upgraded UPS or Fedex. It was just a package of items ordered from Amazon – and it was delivered...
View ArticleBattles Over Words
More than two hundred years ago, the French intellectual Madame de Stael made the observation that battles over words reflected a larger battle over things. And in two centuries that certainly hasn’t...
View ArticlePolitical Lies?
There’s always been a perception of politician as liars. As an example, Mark Twain declared, “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Yet in my nearly twenty years in...
View ArticlePC Run Amuck
The so-called “scandal” facing Justin Trudeau is a clear case of political correctness going totally and insanely out of control. When Trudeau was a 29 year old teacher he dressed up as Aladdin for a...
View ArticleNarcissistic Destruction
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View ArticleHypocrisy and Incompetence Compounded
Earlier this week, Trump threatened to withhold $19 billion over the next three years in highway trust funds for roads and highway infrastructure if California doesn’t drop its efforts to require...
View ArticleOpportunity
What’s all too often overlooked by both left and right in the political name-calling and ego-bashing that passes for political discussion by the far right and far left is the issue of equal...
View ArticleSlippery Slopes?
The other day, I had a discussion, if one could call it that, with a friend who loves his guns, and who, while not a member of the NRA, worries about gun control just like the NRA does. His basic point...
View ArticleOf, By, For… Whom?
In his Gettysburg address, President Lincoln promised that “the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” It’s certainly a great promise about...
View ArticleThe Corporate Flaw
Corporations have a few advantages, and one of those advantages – limited liability – has slowly but inexorably also become the greatest flaw of the corporate culture. This means that shareholders may...
View ArticleTrump… and the Corporate Flaw
Donald Trump has made it more than clear that he believes he’s above the law and accountable to no one. A ninety year old law says that Congress can look at anyone’s tax returns, but not the Donald’s....
View ArticleJust Who’s Attempting a Coup?
Trump called the Mueller investigation a coup. The Trump campaign keeps talking about the Congressional impeachment investigation as a “coup” intended to put liberal Democrats in power. Those claims...
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