ELECT YOUR PEOPLE'S POLICE by Norman Spinrad If something isn't done, and done fast, a civil war in the United States is just a shot or a Molotov Cocktail away. But how and by who? If there is one American who could stand up before the protesters and be listened to it is surely the one and only former President of the United States, Barack Obama. Live before the largest crowd possible and of course well televised. What should he say? He should speak the hard truth to the leaderless protesters that what they are doing is counterproductive to their own confusion of diverse and general causes which if even possible would take decades of legislation to accomplish. What is needed immediately is a strong significant and reachable demand. Demand that the head of all police departments in the United States--cities, towns, st...
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QUARANTINE by Norman Spinrad If it wasn’t the best of times, at least it wasn’t the worst of times, or something like that, which is the opening line of a novel called A TALE OF TWO CITIES, and it seemed like this would be only a tale of one. Back in the day before the Quarantine, Manhattan island was the heart and soul and pocketbook of New York City, to the extent that New York could have been said to have all three, Wall Street, Greenwich Village, Broadway and 42nd Street, and all that jazz. When you saw a movie or a TV show or an ad featuring New York, the Big Apple was Manhattan, not anything in what some visiting Californian must have dubbed the “Outer Boroughs,” the moral equivalent of Anaheim or Eagle Rock as far as a Hollywood wise guy was ...
I've reduced the prices for THE PEOPLE'S POLICE as low as Amazon allows--$6.80 for the paperback, $2.99 for the ebook . I'm doing this because I believe that it's important that this novel be read as widely as possible right now even though I'll be losing money doing this. Because the title is not ironic. Because this novel bridges gaps--between cops and people of color, between Dixie and Yankeeland, between Christianity and Voodoo.
Reviews of THE PEOPLE'S POLICE Tom Shippey on the Best New Science Fiction THE PEOPLE'S POLICE in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Norman Spinrad's novel imagines much wilder Mardi Gras and with it the idea of the "People's Police of New Orleans": cops looking the other way on minor crime, especially vice. By TOM SHIPPEY The big event in our near future, warns Norman Spinrad in "The People's Police", will be the Great Deflation. The dollar will surge, prices and wages will fall. Who suffers in that scenario? Everyone with a mortgage. Americans end up like Icelanders not so long ago, saddled with debts they can't pay with now-deflated incomes. The next stage is foreclosures and evictions. In sadly shrunken New Orleans, Officer Martin Luther Martin ...
THE 21ST CENTURY SHAMAN
THE 21ST CENTURY SHAMAN Alternate Medicines and the Scientific Method by Norman Spinrad Written over a decade ago as a proposal for a book that never got written but all too pertinent to the era of the coronavirus There are many medical systems on this planet, some of them ancient, some of them new, more of them that not based on metaphorical systems. Only “Western” or “alliopathic” medicine is based on rigorous science. But many of the traditional non-western systems cure some conditions cure some conditions but not others. Many of these cures work in practice, but not in theory. That is they do work, but not for the reasons the theory behind them conte...
VIVA MEXICO!
VIVA MEXICO They said we were mad but we were not mad. Paco Taibo, the director of the Fondo de Cultura Economica, had asked me to come to Mexico for the launching of the new Mexican edition of BUG JACK BARRON by the Fondo De Cultura Economica, the publisher owned by the Mexican government, something wonderful and important, and I had accepted,so that I could not back out. But Dona was still incapable of walking very far without me, she had managed to walk two blocks or so, nothing further, and I could not leave her alone. So what could we do? Well of course we got on an airplane for 12 hours and flew 5700 miles to Mexico City, what else, wouldn't you? People in Paris thought that was crazy, of course, but as it turned out, it was doing well by doing good. The Fond...
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS SEE THE LIGHT?
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS SEE THE LIGHT? Read it on Christianity Today: by Marc Galli In our founding documents, Billy Graham explains that Christianity Today will help evangelical Christians interpret the news in a manner that reflects their faith. The impeachment of Donald Trump is a significant event in the story of our republic. It requires comment. The typical CT approach is to stay above the fray and allow Christians with different political convictions to make their arguments in the public square, to encourage all to pursue justice according to their convictions and treat their political opposition as charitably as possible. We want CT to be a place that welcomes Christians from across the political spectrum, and reminds everyone that politics is not the end and purpose of our being. We take pride in the fact, for instance, that politics does not dominate our homepage. That said, we do...
VITAMIN C VERSES CORONAVIRUS Why I've not yet read this anywhere I don't know but that is why I'm duty-bound to do it myself: Vitamin C will be effective against the Coronavirus, personally, and collectively. Vitamin C promotes the body's creation of Interferon which is key to the strength of the immune system. Everyone should take at least 2000mg of Vitamin C, 1000 in the morning, 1000 in the evening, some say another 1000 mid-day. This is not curative, this is cautionary, keeping your immune system running at maximum. If you start to suspect that you may be feeling early symptoms take 1000 mg of Vitamin C an hour until your urine turns bright yellow, which means that your Vitamin C is at maximum and you are pissing away the rest. This will not always stop the infection but it frequently will. I am not making this up, it was discovered and elucidated by Linus Pauling, a Nobel class biochemist. Decades ago, I suffered chronic urinary infection like many men. When I ...
I am often asked for bibliographic and personal details dating in both English and French. I do appreciate being asked for such details by critics, journalists, readers, and so forth. How could I not? But I don't know the answers myself often, and even when I do, as every writer and so forth will admit, it gets dreary to have to give the same answers to the same questions over and over again. Believe me the Wikipedias remember more about me than I do myself and they are honest and neutral, if not 100% accurate. So here they are directly. And a direct link to all the YouTube videos I've done all by myself--songs, comedy, politics, phony ads, reportage, all lined up with a single direct click. My English Wikipedia entry click here Mon Wikipedia francais click here ll my YouTube videos in one cl ick here
THE COMING CATASTROPHE
THE NATURE OF THE COMING CATASTROPHE It's already too late. The Senate is not going to have enough Republican votes to rescue the United States from the continuing catastrophe that is the Presidency of Donald Trump. He has already turned the United States into the most hated country in the world. He has already denied the Greenhouse Warming to favor the oil and coal moguls and dragged America out of the admittedly pathetic Paris Pact while California burns, oceans rise, island states sink, ecospheres collapse, and the biosphere of the whole planet faces terminal destruction. He has double crossed the Kurds, called the generals babies and idiots to their own faces on their own turf and soiled the honor of the military in Syria and destroyed the belief in the word of honor America itself. He has sliced America into tribes hating and fighting each other in order to win election. He is flagrantly guilty not just of the formal impeachment accusations but of much worse crimes and...
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