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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.
An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.
For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.
He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.
Ruminations and provocations.
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Bottom line: Nobody likes how Facebook handles things, and a lot of people would love to change it, but they’re basically held hostage because the platform is the only one to offer access to billions of users. And one person (Zuckerberg) dictates how that platform is run. If Facebook were a country, it would be the largest dictatorship in the world.
Read MoreDemocrats are like the clean-cut guy with the good job who loses the girl to the bad-boy biker. Barack Obama was the quintessential honorable, well-spoken guy. Donald Trump is a bad boy through and through, breaking rules to suit his own purposes, regardless of who he hurts in the process.
Read MoreHere’s the cold, hard truth: No one in power really wants you to think outside the box... unless they can steal your idea and claim credit (and profit) for it themselves.
Read MoreIn our polarized nation, we’ve come to confuse two very different things: The right to express an opinion with the feeling we’re entitled to impose it on others. The former is a hallmark of democracy. The latter a feature of dictatorships.
Read MoreWe Americans like to think of ourselves as innovators, people who “think outside the box.” We laud inventors and original thinkers... after they’ve become mainstream. But for the most part, we’re creatures of habit. We like the familiar, the tried and true. Heck, we even like the “tried” better than the untried, even if it’s not so true. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.
Read MoreTrump had built his name into one of the nation’s most recognizable brands, and he knew how to market the hell out of even lousy products. He’d learned a lot from televangelists and snake oil salesmen. Democrats, by contrast, don’t seem to have learned much at all. Whether they’re attempting to brand themselves or demonize their opponents, it never seems to turn out too well.
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