MAKING JEWISH STUDENTS UNCOMFORTABLE IS OKAY IN TENNESSEE
Yahoo News ran an article about a school board in Tennessee that offers a course teaching “the Bible,” which is of course a Christian version favored by fundamentalists and Evangelicals. If anyone doubts the real intent is to force this religious dogma down everyone’s throats, read what the teacher recommends students do when they encounter […]
A MORNING E BIKE RIDE, AND A NEW NJA CLUB NOVEL TO BE RELEASED
Taking a morning e bike ride in Old Seminole Heights, Tampa, FL, thinking about the release of the third novel in the NJA Club series, titled Bangkok Blues. It will be released in less than two weeks. The first two novels, Bangkok Shadows and Bangkok Whispers, continue gaining readers, and Bangkok Blues will please old and new readers […]
NOW MORE THAN EVER, INSPIRATION FROM DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
MLK Memorial, Washington, DC (Courtesy Tampa Bay Times). “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
WSJ: Mandates Working in Austria
I’ve often said the WSJ separates its very conservative editorial stance from its reporting. WSJ journalists have as free if not freer hands than journalists working elsewhere. Their editorials regularly denounce mandates and restrictions as ineffective, but their independent reporters found otherwise. Let me get one thing straight: I wouldn’t want to see such measures […]
A TALE OF THREE MURDER VERDICTS
Ahmaud Aubrey, Courtesy of New York Times Courtesy The Independent George Floyd, Courtesy CBS News Between April and November of this year, Americans were fixated on three criminal murder trials: Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha Wisconsin, and the Georgia trial of three man accused of murdering African-American jogger Ahmaud Arbery. Issues of […]
THOUGHTS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF KRISTALNACHT
Photo by Stephen Shaiken Today is the 83d anniversary of the horrors of Kristalnacht, when the racist Nazi leader of Germany and his party incited violence and murder against those they considered disloyal and “the other.” The Nazis of course denied responsibility, claiming it was a spontaneous outburst by decent German citizens enraged that […]
TWO GREAT EXOTIC NOIR THRILLERS SET IN BANGKOK
Bangkok Series: Espionage Mysteries by Stephen Shaiken
SALLY ROONEY’S RACISM MASQUERADING AS PRINCIPLE: ANOTHER BDS-HOLE EXPOSED
Irish author Sally Rooney refuses to allow her most recent novel to be published in Hebrew. She recently clarified that her refusal was not based on antipathy to the Hebrew language, but rather on her antipathy to the Jewish people who speak it in the world’s only Jewish state. Not surprising, as Ms. Rooney is […]
WATCH DON WINSLOW’S SHORT VIDEO ON FLORIDA’S FAILURE TO STEM COVID
Don Winslow is a succesful author of mystery and thriller novels. He’s also a political activist. Mr. Winslow just released a short video that documents the horrors Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has visited upon his state; Winslow compares DeSantis’s failed anti-science COVID policies to the Vietnam War. Click here to watch Florida’s Vietnam, by Don […]
FLORIDA MOURNS THE DESANTIS DEAD, KILLED BY ITS PRO-COVID GOVERNOR
Photo ourtesy of Tampa Bay Times Photo courtesy of Newsweek No author could write a science fiction thriller as frightening as Florida’s current reality. In most plague novels, earnest government officials lead a war against the deadly pathogens, fighting with every ounce of strength to save their constituents from the ravages of a pandemic. Not […]