4 draft manuscripts now done, each better than the last. THE SECRET WOMAN, an espionage/adventure/love story, tells the tale of a group of American engineers & medics caught up in a revolution in a fictional So American country. I’m polishing all 4, will publish when they shine.

The self-portrait… @TheBuffaloNews

“But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.” ~

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” — Leo Tolstoy

It's embarrassing that every major network is not covering the shocking and terrible revelations about Donald Trump that were released today by the Dept of Justice. Every show, every producer, every host this should be your focus today. This is NEWS.

In 1928, George Orwell went to Paris because he wanted to see what it was like to be poor. He rented a cheap room, ran out of money faster than expected, and ended up washing dishes in hotel kitchens for twelve to fourteen hours a day. The work was brutal in a boring way. Hot

he was onto something

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” — Joseph Conrad

#HolocaustMemorialDay "All the Dachaus must remain standing -- the Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes, all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the earth into a graveyard. "Into it

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed." — William Faulkner

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right." — George Orwell

Kamala Harris wasn't mocked just by rightwing pundits & media.

"THE PARTY TOLD YOU TO REJECT THE EVIDENCE OF YOUR EYES AND EARS. IT WAS THEIR FINAL, MOST ESSENTIAL COMMAND." -GEORGE ORWELL, 1984

Trump's America

He had a permit to carry He was legally exercising his 2nd Amendment right. He did not draw the weapon. He was filming when they approached him. They had taken his weapon from its holster before they shot him. It was murder.

Paris, France 🇫🇷

"It's clear that there's a rampant dumbing down in progress in which not knowing things is considered a virtue. I don't throw my hands up in despair, but I do try to indicate that it's a very serious problem." — Carl Sagan

For those told they're not good enough, they will never make it... Someone once said to my dad, "You ought to switch careers because you'll never be a writer." Image: Rod Serling 4th Emmy

Bruce MacKinnon, The Halifax Chronicle Herald @CH_Cartoon