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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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What has happened is the same thing that happens in a parliamentary government: The Republican Party as we knew it in the 1980s through 2004 has become too weak to hold power by itself. So it has been forced to form a coalition with a “minority party” called the KKK, the Proud Boys, and other white nationalist/Aryan groups in order to stay in control.
Read MoreCoded messages carry clear intent to those for whom they’re intended, but disguise that intent to everyone else. We are the “everyone else” listening to Trump’s coded messages. They aren’t intended for us. They’re meant for white nationalists and other insurrectionists.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, a bunch of you stupid white guys with stupid flags, yelling stupid sayings in service of a stupid man broke into the Capitol building on a murderous rampage, intent on destroying my country. You’ll notice one word is repeated numerous times in that sentence. Stupid.
Read MoreAll this talk about healing and unifying the country is no better than a placebo if we don’t address the disease at the root of it all. Taking a placebo when your sick may provide some (apparent) relief from symptoms, but it’s one of the worst things you can do, because it keeps you from doing what needs to be done: aggressively treating the underlying cause.
Read MoreCensorship of hate speech doesn’t violate the “marketplace of ideas” principle. That concept assumes you’re talking about rational ideas, not incitement to hatred and violence. If someone enters a marketplace and starts making false accusations about a vendor and whipping the crowd into such a frenzy he can’t do business — or inciting them to overturn his stand — THAT’S what suppression looks like. That’s REAL censorship.
Read MoreDonald Trump appeared to say many of the right things in his too-little, too-late reversal after inciting his followers to storm the Capitol. But he didn’t say the only words that mattered, the only words he almost never says. … . Instead, he did what he always does: He threw his supporters under the bus.
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