A communications/political scientist from Northern California. Author of the novels "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" and "Thompson's Bounty". My most recently completed novel is a humorous Greek epic called "The Ameriad". I am currently working on a book of essays with the working title: "Fixing What's Wrong In America". I currently reside in Seoul, South Korea.

Previously, I was a counterintelligence agent and also worked in the computer gaming industry during its infancy.

My blog is located at littlesarbonn.com. I am also the creator of the really bad comic strip "The Adventures of Stickman and the Unemployed Legospaceman".

My passion is ...

Writing...I guess it's that way with a lot of people here

I know too much about ...

Politics. Having studied it on the grad level so long, I now have learned enough to be dangerous.

My parents always told me ...

Get out

My childhood ambition ...

To be a writer. Well, and a fireman, but one can dream....

My favorite memory ...

My first love

Why I write ...

Because my muse pays half the rent and I can't afford a place of my own

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Monk (tv), recently read "Blink", big fan of Shania Twain

My first job ...

Santa Monica Boys Club. I did all sorts of odd jobs there.

My best moment ...

Getting accepted to West Point

My inspiration ...

my bean bag frog named Elmer. There's nothing he can't do.

Education > Colleges & Universities (Other) Should college education be available to the many or reserved for the few?

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I grew up in a family with a mother who had only a seventh grade education. My father split the first chance he could get, which left this poor woman with few options but to work at crummy jobs just so she could provide for a son and daughter. She was too proud to take government assistance, and to be honest, she didn't know how to qualify for it in the first place. So, she worked long hours each day of the week and provided what little sustenance she could for her two kids and herself. There were many times when she went without. There were many times when her kids went without. I can reme...

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