QUEENSBOROUGH ROCK; COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS UNTIL RELEASE
November 23, 2022: that’s the release date Queensborough Rock.my novel about rock’ n’ roll in Queens, NYC in the late sixties and early seventies. Why are you taking so long to release the book? Queensborough Rock is utterly different than my three NJA club novels, and that’s why it’s being promoted and released differently. I have no […]
FOURTH NJA CLUB NOVEL TO BE RELEASED IN EARLY 2023
Photo by Stephen Shaiken I’ve been a busy writer. Next month will see the release of my Sixties rock ‘n’ roll novel, Queensborough Rock, published by Crosswinds Press. (See COMING THIS NOVEMBER-A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF STEPHEN SHAIKEN NOVEL ) While that book is undergoing production and pre-release publicity, I find myself deep in the […]
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED ON 9/11
In memory of those who died on 9/11, including so many brave first responders. When America was attacked, members of Congress of both parties unified behind the President and the country, even though a mere nine months before, the closest election in U.S. history was decided by 500 plus votes in Florida and a controversial Supreme […]
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THE MUNICH OLYMPIC MASSACRE OF 1972 WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.
Fifty years later, the memories and pain are still felt. All of the known and living terrorists who carried out the monstrously criminal act of genocide were hunted down and killed by Israeli agents. Steven Spielberg made a movie, Munich, which asked whether this was the right thing to do. I am absolutely convinced it […]
JORDAN PETERSON THROWN OFF TWITTER FOR ANTI-TRANS HATE RANT
Say what you want about the crackpot Canadian psychologist and philosopher-king to the West’s homophobes, white and Christian nationalists, science deniers, and just plain kooks, but he’s a survivor. He’s come back to haunt us after battles with addiction, depression, police investigations, allegations of hate mongering and absolute rejection by the world’s genuine philosophers and […]
EVEN TRUMP DOESN’T DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY-LOCKING HIM UP FOREVER IS JUSTICE
Click here to read about former CIA Director Michael Hayden’s suggestion that Trump face the death penalty. I must disagree; I’ve been opposed to capital punishment my entire life, and tempting as it may be, am not inclined to carve out an exception for Donald Trump. We’ll have to settle for life imprisonment with, most […]
TRUMP’S BEING TREATED LIKE ANY CRIMINAL SUSPECT, AS IT SHOULD BE
The Yahoo News article accessible below is but one of many reports on the faux outrage Republican leaders are expressing over a lawful and proper criminal investigation of the leader of their cult. Aren’t these the same useless clowns who pledge to put Dr. Fauci in jail for doing his job, and who screamed “Lock her […]
DESANTIS PROVES ONCE AGAIN JOE SCARBOROUGH IS RIGHT ABOUT HIS OLD PARTY’S ANTISEMITISM
I published an earlier version of this post a year ago, after DeSantis had illegally removed from office twice-elected Jewish-American Hillsborough County States Attorney Andrew Warren. At the time, Meatball used an antisemitic trope-“George Soros bought prosecutor- which experts in antisemitism have repeatedly identified as an antisemitic trop, The renowned Jewish newspaper, The Forward, wrote […]
TAMPA’S WATERWORKS PARK AN URBAN TREASURE
Photo by Stephen Shaiken It’s not just our great sports teams that have put Tampa on the map these days and made it one of the most desirable places to live in the U.S. (Though skyrocketing housing prices and rents need to come down it we are to keep it up.) It isn’t just the […]