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Feb 10, 2017

Negotiating in China

Today, news leaked from the stunningly porous White House that the Trump administration has capitulated on the One China Policy fiasco. President Trump started the international power struggle by stumbling over a thirty-five-year-old diplomatic trip hazard, accepting a phone call from the president of Taiwan. …

Politics

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Negotiating in China
Negotiating in China
Politics

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Feb 2, 2017

Mars Via Buzz Aldrin’s Cycler

The Aldrin Cycler is the best way to mars. In a recent article, Dr. Clive R. Neal, Professor of geology at the University of Notre Dame, stated his case for a return to the moon as a stepping stone to mars. His reasons for a return to the moon…

Space

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Space

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Oct 14, 2016

Vampires

Cosby, Clinton, Trump The world is full of cultures that condone vampirism; but in America the sun is coming out. Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump are vampires, each a real-world Dracula stalking the night, targeting the weak and vulnerable. In his smart book about literature, Thomas C. Foster…

Sexual Assault

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Vampires
Vampires
Sexual Assault

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Aug 26, 2016

The Santa Fe Super Chief

Across America by Rail — October 1962 In the deep fall of 1962, my mother hauled my two older sisters and me across America to visit her family for the holidays, Southern California to New York City. The journey was the most spectacular event yet in my young life. …

Travel

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The Santa Fe Super Chief
The Santa Fe Super Chief
Travel

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Aug 15, 2016

Dark Matter or Dark Ages

The solution awaits young genius. Think of gravity, the Einsteinian kind, the bowling ball on an elastic tarpaulin. The ball stretches the tarp to a deep, cone-shaped depression and marbles spiral down the slope toward the bottom. In this model the tarpaulin is the space-time continuum, the bowling ball any…

Science

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Dark Matter or Dark Ages
Dark Matter or Dark Ages
Science

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May 9, 2016

The Double Edged Spork of CRISPR/Cas9 Technology that could make nuclear weapons seem trivial.

The Double Edged Spork of CRISPR/Cas9 Technology that could make nuclear weapons seem trivial. In the kitchen of life, recipes are written in the four letter alphabet of DNA. Think of DNA as a long shish kebob with four ingredients arranged on the skewer, these are the letters. Geneticist call them nucleotides. Three nucleotide letters spell one amino acid word. Tomato-chicken-onion spells one amino…

Terrorism

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The Double Edged Spork of CRISPR/Cas9 
Technology that could make nuclear weapons seem trivial.
The Double Edged Spork of CRISPR/Cas9 
Technology that could make nuclear weapons seem trivial.
Terrorism

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Aug 21, 2015

America is at war and we are losing.

America is at war and we are losing. America is at war and we are losing. We have fought and lost major battles in this war repeatedly for forty years. We are under attack again. It’s not the Russians or the Chinese or the North Koreans who are attacking, and we don’t need to worry too much about…

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·Jun 1, 2015

The Writers Group

I want to be near other artists fighting for their creative breath in an unartistic country — Drew Coffman When I was twenty-five I was a bartender on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. I wasn’t doing it because my life’s dream was to make a big toke behind the plank. I was an aspiring young novelist and I thought it would be good experience. I was right…

Creative Writing

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The Writers Group
The Writers Group
Creative Writing

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·Jul 18, 2014

The Purchase

The hotel wasn’t bad as far as Chinese hotels go, but it was in the city of Jiaozuo in Henan province, far enough west of the modern, eastern coast of China that everything was just a little backward, slightly thread worn, and old. But it was way nicer than my…

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The Purchase
The Purchase

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·Jul 10, 2014

The Waiter from the Royal Sonesta

Legs tired and numb, I slid onto a stool at Lucky Pierre’s S-shaped bar. Mirrored between the bottles were two of my customers from earlier in the night. The two detectives had made my slow shift at the Bourbon Orleans lobby bar worthwhile, telling cop stories and tipping after every…

New Orleans

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New Orleans

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James J Houts

James J Houts

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