JORDAN PETERSON: THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
Photo courtesy of CBS Photo Couresty of The New Republic A BIT OF BACKGROUND When I started this blog, almost four years ago, the idea was to […]
TRANSGENDER SCHOOL GIRLS ARE THE LATEST TARGET OF REPUBLICAN HATE
So, if I open a purely private school, don’t take a dime from any government, and decide to allow transgender girls to play on pickup basketball games on the grounds of my private school….does Governor DeSantis send in his Gestapo to arrest me, like he did with that woman who exposed his COVID number lies? […]
A SIMPLE TWIST (A Provocative Tale of Hate)
Photo courtesy of Zach Vessels, Unsplash. A SIMPLE TWIST OF HATE By Stephen Shaiken ( c ) 2021 This is a work of fiction and creative imagination. Any similarity to actual people or events […]
MY CITRUS TREES HAVE FLOWERED
Taking a break from writing to admire the beautiful flowers on my citrus trees in Tampa, Florida. I’ll be a better writer for it. (Clockwise from upper left: orange, Persian Lime, Kalamandi, calamansi.)
IT’S THE FILIBUSTER, STUPID!
The Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the $15 an hour minimum wage is not properly part of a budget reconciliation, and thus, can’t be voted on as part of that package. This means that the only way to achieve it is a direct Senate vote. The problem is that with the filibuster as a weapon, forty […]
MY VACCINATION DAY
REPORT FROM THE VACCINATION TRAIL I am one of the luckiest people in Hillsborough County, FL. I am one of the 10,500 Hillsborough residents inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine. On January 4, 1500 vaccines were made available to people over sixty five; the website crashed in thirty seconds, and no one answered the phones; no one has […]
EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO HEAR THIS NOW
2021 To Be A Big Year For My Writing
My cat, Curious, who keeps me company as I struggle to create. A welcome goodbye to 2020. We have just bid farewell to the worst year America has endured over my lifetime, and I was born during the second Truman Administration. 2020 ended with numerous new historical records we’d hope to never see: a raging, […]
Read My Latest Short Story:”A Well-Dressed Man”
Why does a short story, whose title suggests a sartorial theme, start with a picture of a smiling crocodile? You’ll have to read it to find out! After publishing the second novel in my Bangkok-based NJA Club series ( Click here to visit Bangkok Shadows page, and Click here to visit Bangkok Whispers page) I […]
EXPERTS AGREE: TRUMP IS A NAZI SYMPATHIZER
For years, I’ve been saying Trump is a racist and a Nazi sympathizer. Looks like I’ve got some expert opinion on my side. Trump’s gene comments ‘indistinguishable from Nazi rhetoric’, expert on Holocaust says Tom Embury-Dennis,The Independent•September 21, 2020 The presidential candidate made the comments during his presidential announcement Donald Trump’s rhetoric about “good genes” […]