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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.
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Republicans are in the same kind of pickle Democrats found themselves in during the 1960s, when Southern conservatives started leaving the party for the GOP because they couldn’t stomach being in the same party with Northeastern aristocrats. … But this time, it’s worse. Here’s why.
Read MoreWhite supremacy denotes superiority. Domination. BLM just asserts that Black lives matter. … When one side wants to dominate the other, and the other side just wants to acknowledge the right to have a life (not even bothering to mention liberty and the pursuit of happiness), there’s no equivalency there — false or otherwise.
Read MoreThose fixated on loyalty at the expense of facts obsess night and day on a single objective: canceling the enemy, by hashtag, by accusation, or if that doesn’t work, by more violent means. The impulse to “cancel” someone can’t get more brazen than QAnon lady rep Marjorie Taylor Greene suggesting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be executed for treason.
Read MoreIt makes zero cents to love on Jesus and hate everyone else who happens to be Jewish. It’s like the KKK decided to claim Malcolm X as their patron saint.
Read MoreIt might seem weird to think of being stuck as chaotic, but that’s exactly what it is. Think of it like a pinball machine, or a glass bottle with fireflies or supercharged particles zinging around inside, bouncing off the glass and one another in a frenetic yet futile attempt to escape. That’s what a mind living in limbo feels like. It’s exhausting and, if it goes on too long, can feel debilitating.
Read MoreHow many open-minded people wind up feeling so shamed by liberal identity-blame that they embrace racist extremism? It’s hard to say. But the defensiveness is real, and many who don’t wind up in bigoted cults will feel caught in a Catch-22: The side they agree with will never fully accept them, but they don’t agree with the side that would.
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