PIRATING THE PIRATES
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DONALD TRUMP AGENT OF SATAN
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...
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...
VOTED FOR ME OR I'L KILL YOU
VOTE FOR ME OR I'LL KILL YOU VIDEO Thank you Alan Dershowitz “What a load of nonsense,” Schumer said as he addressed reporters. “By Dershowitz’s logic, President Nixon did nothing wrong in Watergate. He was just breaking into the [Democratic National Committee] to help his reelection, which of course in the public interest, according to Dershowitzian logic.” “The Dershowitz argument frankly would unleash a monster, more aptly it would unleash a monarch,” Schumer added. Video and music by Jerome and Denis Lefdup, lyrics and performance by Norman Spinrad Originally part of HOME ON THE PAGE, video and live stage show, and a DVD back in the day. A little dated maybe, but Jerome has done a fabulous 3D remake and politics being how they have become right now, I just couldn't resist
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 ...
STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
HAPPY 2020 NEW YEAR from Dona &Norman What doesn't kill you makes love stronger Norman Spinrad dances with Dona Sadock at his 70th Birthday party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kejMBMabfbY Ten years ago it was probable that I wouldn't live to make it to this party. But reports of my imminent demise proved to be exaggerated. "Don't look back, something may gaining on you." ---Satchel Paige
DIRECT ACTION CAN DO IT!
DIRECT ACTION Virginia with 13 electoral votes has now joined the Compact. The magic number is 270. Now the count to it is 209 and rising. Only 61 more electoral votes to go. Which state will be next? Which state will be the one to finally make it so? Save American Constitutional Democracy from the coming singularity via The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact In 2016 Clinton got 3 million more popular votes than Trump but Trump was elected President against the will of the majority of the American voters and the odds are that something like it is going to happen again in 2020. And if it does, the Constitution of the United States will be revealed as incompatible with American Democracy and something cannot help but give. There cannot fail to be a paradigm shift AKA a revolution against the Constitution as it stands. Indeed there has already been a...
THE CANCER DIARY
This is more or less self-explanatory, written in real-time on my laptop, first at home, then from a hospital bed, and posted in real-time to a group email of friends and on Facebook, hence raw and repetative, but I believe, useful and honest in original form except for spelling check. I think AN AGNOSTIC'S PRAYER may be of free-standing interest itself independent of the personal story which finds me writing this, having created this blog, still recovering, but, not 100% cured and in for some more chemotherapy, so I will post that separately too. March 23 I have been diagnosed with stomach cancer and told that it is presently inoperable due to involvement of a mesentery lymph node, and my only chance to even live out the year is to undergo prior chemotherapy of one kind or anothe...
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