Norman Spinrad At Large

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...

Free Story of the Week: This story, ENTITIES,  is somehow peculiarly relative to what I'm trying to do with NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE.  What I'm doing with this blog is creating my own entity that will still exist as long as the technology to carry it into the future still exists after my flesh and blood are gone.  A kind of immortality, or at least, the next best thing.  My friend Richard  Pinhas and I were talking about our physically deceased mutual friend Philip K. Dick.  "I'm not talking about his physical person," Richard told me. "I'm talking about his immortal entity,  the books, the stories, the history, the recorded or remembered personality." So NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE is my evolving entity, the short stories that will remain on this blog, the novels that will be always available as long as Amazon remains, videos, songs, recipes, pictures, loves, hates, interviews, whatever.  Better to create your own entity rather than write your ...

THE WAR ON DRUGS--LOSERS AND  WINNERS  MY COVERAGE OF MARIJUANA PARADE AND COMMERCIAL FOR ACAPULCO GOLD

REMEMBER THE FIRST LAW OF POLITICS, REPUBLICAN  SENATORS--FIRST COVER YOUR OWN ASSES! And you can.  You can do what you know you should with no courage required.  There has been much sad confidential moaning from unnamed Senatorial Republican sources that 20 to 30 Republican Senators know damn well that Donald Trump has been an unparalleled disaster already to America, to the world, and ultimately to the Republican Party, and that win or lose, a Constitutional crisis will be inevitable if he even runs for President again, perhaps even a civil war, and would vote to save the country, their party, and the world from the inevitable catastrophe by voting to remove Trump before it is too late, if it isn't too late  already, and would gladly do so if they could avoid his vengeance and that of Mitch McConnell by voting  anonymously. But you can, Republican Senators. The full rules for the impeachment trial must be voted on and it takes only 51 votes to approve...