Confessions of a Climate Change Comedy Screenwriter
Editors are editing, the author is revising, but it is coming soon… There is a very intricate process to preparing a manuscript on its journey into the world. In the beginning there is the outline. Next come’s the first swing at a chapter. I prefer to polish and revise and balance that process with the […]
Read More No, But We Are Working On Bringing This Book into the WorldFletcher McCrea looked out over the vast Great Basin Desert. His mind was spinning. He was in the tightest corner he’d ever bumbled into. After Glenna left him he set off on foot. Together with Bambalina he walked off the mountain. He needed his time. He had to gather his thoughts, come to grips […]
Read More Place and PersonFrom the Comedy Hot Spring Honeymoon my latest novel…. “I happen to find something new in the book of bachelor wisdom. I found there comes a point in life when the best thing a man can do is the thing he promised himself he never would.”
Read More Hot Spring HoneymoonI had a fascinating conversation with Anthony Bell. He is a winemaker. He is in Yountville, California. Writing novels and making wine have much in common. The long period of time required to make the product. All of the variables… in wine it is about the fruit, the sun, the rain, the clouds, […]
Read More Hot Spring HoneymoonUnsurprisingly, they support the policies that allow them to do this: things like low taxes, risky speculation, sky-high executive pay, and pulling investment out of education and infrastructure. What happens to our economy in the long-term is not really their concern. There’s a motto on Wall Street: “I.B.G.-Y.B.G.” or “I’ll Be Gone, You’ll Be Gone.” As long […]
Read More Tree Hugging Sailing Home of the Solar Electric Fuel Cell Powered FutureA World That Stepped In It… The fiction writer forms an economic point of view and then sets his characters into action within the world he has created. I found the link about Thatcher’s utter focus on moving as much from the public sector to the private sector of interest. Then, I read this, […]
Read More The Utter Uselessness of Failure Now Four Decades in the MakingTransnational capital has been able to break free of nation-state constraints to accumulation beyond the previous epoch, and with it, to shift the correlation of class and social forces worldwide sharply in its favour – and to undercut the strength of popular and working class movements around the world, in the wake of the global […]
Read More Playing Free and Lose with Fact and Opinion….Wee…………..Watergate If I told you who I had dinner with last night I would have to kill you. Evidently the individual was privy to top secret information. He continuously looked around to see if anyone was overhearing the conversation. He was sure the gentleman seated at the next table was trying to glean […]
Read More A View from the Nations CapitalSo, that’s my sloppy theory about why labor’s share of national income has been declining worldwide. I have no idea what would turn it around, other than an ever-deepening economic crisis that leads to organizing of that sort that greatly empowers labor, seriously threatens economic elites, and restores labor’s bargaining power. Until then, I’m afraid, […]
Read More Card Carrying Union Member…S. Philip Morgan and his colleagues have identified an interestingly complex effect, after Obama’s election in 2008, Republicans became more pessimistic about the economic future while Democrats remained more optimistic; that optimism or pessimism influenced decisions to have children – to the advantage of blue states. Claude Fisher, Professor of Sociology U.C. Berkeley The […]
Read More The Unintended Mood Altering Political Disaster