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Book / Young Adult

February 23, 2025

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Comments: 1

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The Booksie Classic House

'A loner, a survivor, an idealist and an outcast... and they all had a reason to kill.' The first days of the 2025 Trump presidency are upon the students of Sherman High and there are big changes ahead. From changes to dress code and bathroom rights, to wider changes in… Read More

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"Hi Secret Geek, Thanks for letting me know about this -- I am really enjoying it! As I mentioned in one of the text comments (not sure if you go..." Read More

The disillusion of America into a long nightmare of choice Read More
A new day coming to America -- ushered in by tainted loyalty and stained fidelity -- trashing the solemnity, dignity, majesty and splendor of over two centuries of American legacy. Read More
The 2025 Presidential Inaugural Address -- a requiem for patriots lost who unknowingly and unwantedly made the ultimate sacrifice for the arrogance and greed of power and control. Read More

Essay / Other

October 17, 2024

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Why I am not surprised half the country is behind Trump Read More

Tags: america

"Appoggio la fronte alla grande finestra che dà sul porto sperando di veder arrivare il tuo galeone, una grossa parte di me si è arresa al fatto che anche oggi non tornerai ma quella piccola fiammella di speranza arde ancora." Read More
I am descendant of native Americans -- Indians, Spaniards, Mexicans -- the first pioneers, pilgrims, explores of the Americas -- and now poisoners of the blood of a nation -- enemies of the state -- human imposters -- animals -- or so I am told. Had I been a white… Read More
Un noioso meeting, un ascensore che si blocca, un Russo e un Americano. Sembra l'inizio di una barzelletta ma non lo è l'ennesimo scontro fra le due superpotenze avrà una svolta intensa. Read More
The nakedness of a nation exposed -- and it's not a pretty picture -- not at all . . . Read More
The RNC. The DNC. Eight days of partisan demagoguery and fanaticism. And one, and only one moment still etched in my mind and in my heart. One giant leap of love, devotion and adoration -- and yet one small step by a son who touched so many hearts in one… Read More
My personal reflection on how and why American came to be . . . a simple scenario from a simple mind . . . a mind with imagination. Read More
We among us today, more than at any other time in history -- patriots lost among the magnificent obsession that is America and the American Dream. Read More
Yesterday, I heard bells ringing, and I saw the waving flag of the brave and the free flying high above the storm -- and I heard the joy come back into the life of America. Read More

Tags: joy, calm, america, storm, quiet

On Friday (July 19th) the GOP convention comes to an end, and then begins the deconstruction of America, and the construction of a nation built on the swamps of despair and deceit -- shallow, hollow, aimless. Read More
I lived with Kennedy, King, Reagan -- and I know the pain, sorrow and sense of betrayal that it brought. This time, it made a martyr out of evil. Read More
Let America's requiem begin -- the GOP convention -- July 18, 2024 -- a day that will live in infamy . . . Read More
Possible replacement to THE NEW COLOSUS poem on the Statute of Liberty . . . stranger things have happened since 2016! Read More
Is there a typo on the Book of Revelations when it predicts a final battle between good and evil at a place called Megiddo (or Har-Megiddo)? Should that have been Mar-A-Lago? We'll find out soon enough, wouldn't we? Read More
My Birthday Card to America on this 4th of July - 2024. Read More
MAGA -- an acronym the world has experienced too many times before -- yet humanity keeps repeating history, and its mistakes. Read More
My take on the upcoming Biden/Trump Presidential Debate -- June 27, 2024 Read More
Exposing myself for who I am and why I write with such vitriol and potency against the rate of our democracy. Read More
I find myself on a ship of fools in a sea of egotism and conceit. Read More
The Age of Information -- America's suicide letter of its annihilation. Read More
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