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The Battle of the Invisible Friends (aka “Supreme Being Smackdown”)
Can things get any dumber? Don’t answer that question. “There are millions of people around this world praying to their God – whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that [McCain's] opponent wins for a variety of reasons,” Pastor Arnold Conrad said. “And, Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they’re going [...]
The “tulip bubble”: not so bubbly? (and, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”)
With the world markets doing what they’re doing at the moment, it’s no wonder that past crashes and bubbles are being discussed a lot on the Intarwebz. The Tulip Bubble in particular has been getting a lot of attention, maybe because it just seems so nuts now that we’re used to seeing financial madness mostly [...]
Screwtape on Democracy
As a US expat I have the delightful opportunity to vote by mail in national and state elections (for expats they use your last state of residence, which for me is California), and I cast my vote last week. There’s a strange satisfaction about being able to walk down to the mailbox in our local village, slide in [...]
Moneychangers in the temple (shock! horror!)
Oh dear. Yesterday the Archbishops of Canterbury and York condemned London-based brokers who indulged in short selling as “bank robbers and asset strippers” and accused them of “generating unimaginable wealth … by equally unimaginable levels of fiction”. But now it turns out that the Church of England has been quite willing to sell short and [...]
To Dover, and beyond!!
Well, not too far beyond, we hope. I’ll sure be watching this on the lunchtime news… (ETA: Postponed to Sept. 26 due to cloud / bad weather in France.)
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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