Monthly Archives: February 2009

First Blood

I found out this afternoon that the anthology containing my very first published work of fiction, Gravity Fiction, is now available through Amazon and BookSurge. -=DLH=-

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Creating Jobs

Does anyone else realize that creating jobs is not the same as stimulating the economy?

The mediawaves are full of all of this nonsense about how the economy has shed this many jobs and this many people are unemployed and we need to create jobs.

Now, if we take a breath for a moment, we can talk about how silly this all is. […] Continue reading

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$13

Worldview Item of the Day According to the first reports scuttling around the internet, Americans can expect to see an average of $13 per week on their paychecks after the government spending stimulus plan goes into effect this spring. That’s … Continue reading

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$1 trillion dollars

Worldview Item of the Day

So, the Congress is one step closer today to forcing us all into decades of indentured servitude to China and the European Union in order to pay back the debt we will incur when we borrow what will likely be $1 trillion to “stimulate” our economy. […] Continue reading

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Ghosts

One of the interesting things about being a 35-year-old college student is that I am able to see ghosts. Stop laughing; I’m serious.

I’ve been in and out of college for 17 years, and in that time I have discovered that life, in many ways is cyclic and repeating. Things that were true 17 years ago are still true today and will be tomorrow and for years to come. The punk kids are still punks; the idealists are still idealists; the progressives are progressives. […] Continue reading

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