Hello everyone. You may not have expected me back so soon. Yet here I am with another post for this decade. A lot has happened since the last post here, there is so much, that I’ll have to skip explaining and sum up. Salem’s Sequel, Harvester of Tomorrow, is in its final revision, I’ve been bogged down in various projects besides. Research for Tripwire (sci-fi/aliens + prison thriller), The Assassin’s Box , a fantasy epic for Dungeons and Dragons enthusiasts, its companion pieces (the Sunkissed Thieves, Fall of the Day Star, and more), and what might be my most important work since Salem’s and continuing along that path Daddy’s Invisible Ouchy . Yes, it sounds like a kid’s book, and it is. Really? How do I tie Salem’s Son to a kid's book? Well, for one thing, I’m using a Nom de Plume , so no juvenile readers or parents accidentally link my Rated R (or worse) fantasy and horror works to DIO. God forbid they find this place. Salem’s Son sets out to give a modern look at PTSD,
As a social scientist, an expert in strategic global human affairs with decades of experience accurately predicting things like the Iraq War, its outcome, etc. and working to stop a widening GWOT that may have repeated the Iraq debacle in Syria, I feel compelled to talk about today's news. Easy piece, China warning our birds out of their space. Who cares? We would do and have done, the same. Behind the headlines, there is massive over reaction to our "quadrupling" of our forces in Taiwan. We have 30 guys there (on paper) x4 that's 120 guys. Barely an infantry company. Nobody actual thinks that matters. Our real numbers in Taipei? Meh. What about Ukraine? Were spending (laundering) more than 46 billion per year, more than we did in Afghanistan annually. I wonder about how much comes back to our political class ILLEGALLY sending these funds I to a war zone? Yes. Illegal. Believe it or not, it's illegal, under the constitution, reinforced by recent statues, to supp