In my not-so-humble opinion, the polarity between left and right in the USA has reached such extraordinary extremes that neither side can be relied on to report the facts with enough objectivity to even remotely resemble anything truly truthful. Personally, I’m on the left, but…for me, at least…truth and perspective are far more important than paying lip service to my leftist convictions. However repugnant the right side may be to me, I must acknowledge that if I go to their news sources, not the left side’s news sources’ selective reporting on them, and listen without immediately shutting down when I hear an opinion I don’t share, they do in fact have a perspective that isn’t any more full of lies and hyperbole than the left side’s news sources. I therefore highly recommend that anyone who shares my respect for the truth listen to both sides, id est don’t read the New York Times without also listening to what Fox News has to say about the same issue. I also highly recommend The Flip Side, which carefully presents a summation plus quotes from both left and right on any given topic, available here.
Check out my newly released sci fi novella, Boomers for the Stars!
BOOMERS FOR THE STARS: Another sci fi novella I had a lot of fun writing, which will be featured on a big banner at the May 2017 SFWA Nebula Awards Conference. In a dystopian future Baby Boomers…kept alive far too long by the first, clumsily imperfect advances in the science…
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Pubescent Putin
My brother Maury…a talented poet and writer whose books are available here and whose far-more-tasteful-than-mine website is maurybarr.com…has said what, it could be argued, no woman could get away with saying without censure: Headline: Antisatellite Nuclear Weapon Oh, your smile! It’s Mr. Crafty! What are you doing? Put your pecker…
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Instafreebie Group Giveaway: Science Fiction Space Opera to…
Okay, I couldn’t resist the name Instafreebie…what fun! Didn’t know this site existed till about a week ago; now I’m part of a group of science fiction authors giving out over 100 whole or partial books for free from March 1 through March 31st. So please click on this link…
Read MoreCraig Healing Springs (this excerpt from my memoirs is about aging)
See if you agree with the editor who, though he published other work of mine in the New York Times, rejected this piece. (Written long ago, it’s now part of Craig Healing Springs, the title I’ve given my memoirs.) THE GOLDEN YEARS When I moved to Long Island the first…
Read MoreCheck out my newly released sci fi novella, Rococo!
ROCOCO: A sci fi novella I had a lot of fun writing! Even the two years I spent researching our future as predicted by a truly diverse collection of people…but including those paid the big bucks to make accurate calls in such matters for major corporations. Personally, I love this…
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