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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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Pundits make a point of emphasizing that Trump is running against a far more likeable candidate this time, and one he can’t tar and feather with sexist rhetoric. (He tried ageism, but that didn’t work.) This should be 1936, 1972, and 1984 all over again. So why the hell is this race so close?
Read MoreNew conquests require new enemies, and Trump can’t help but make them. … But these external enemies, whether they’re Democrats or “fake news media” or Never Trumpers, are really proxies in an internal war against himself that he can’t admit he’s fighting.
Read MoreFranklin D. Roosevelt took to the airwaves on Dec. 8, 1941, to tell us we were at war. But imagine he didn’t announce that Japan had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Imagine that, instead, he said there had been only a “minor disturbance in the Pacific,” that it was “nothing to worry about,” and that the problem would “just go away.” This is how Donald Trump has approached the COVID crisis.
Read MoreWhat if Democrats tried to suppress the vote? Here’s a tongue-in-cheek look at what that might look like. Please note: This is satire. No one should, under any circumstances, seek to impede or discourage American citizens — regardless of their political affiliation — from exercising their constitutionally protected right to vote.
Read MoreWhy should people refuse to wear a mask? How is it more of a hardship to put a piece of cloth over your face than to spend several days on a respirator in the ICU (at a cost of thousands of dollars)? Of course, that won’t happen to them, because they’re special, chosen people. They’re “immune.” They don’t have to wear seat belts or condoms, either. It’s all such a terrible inconvenience. But this isn’t really about personal freedom. It’s a repudiation of personal responsibility.
Read MoreIt’s not “herd immunity,” it’s mass infection and deliberate exposure. But perhaps the term herd immunity can be instructive in one sense: A herd is a group of stupid, docile, domesticated animals. Like cattle. They’re herded into an area by those who control them and, ultimately, exploited for their milk and butchered for their meat.
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