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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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A lot of people are just plain sick of hate. They’re sick of political manipulation. They miss the days when social media sites were just about sharing goofy pictures and personal updates with trusted friends and family, or networking for business. … That’s why there’s a real market for a different kind of social media with one simple ground rule: No politics, period.
Read MoreDonald Trump is an everyday citizen now. He can’t assert executive privilege because he doesn’t have standing. Because of this, any judge who sees Trump’s lawsuit come before him has only one real choice, under the law. He or she must bang that gavel, stare Trump’s attorney in the eye, and say, “Case dismissed!”
Read MoreESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith was emphatic: “Jon Gruden’s career is over. It’s over.” But then he said something I found simply unbelievable: “I cannot imagine even a white male with influence and connections and some degree of power that can overcome what The New York Times reported and what we all now know.”
Read MoreThe influence of Citizens United was predicated on two assumptions: First, that facts mattered and needed to be “spun” through messaging, and second, that money was necessary to get that messaging out. But Trumpism obliterated both of those assumptions.
Read MoreThere’s always been a tendency of losing teams to blame the ref, but it’s gotten worse over the years, and that has seeped into politics, as well. Pre-emptively. Any election that’s lost is automatically viewed as the result of some imagined fraud, and those that are won must have been clean as a whistle.
Read MoreWhat if the anti-vax, no-mask movement was been instigated by spies for the Democratic Party sent to do an inside job with a single, nefarious goal: to destroy the conservative movement. Think about it. Who benefits from COVID running rampant through red states and rural areas dominated by Republican voters? It sure as hell ain’t Republicans.
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