: About Me

One day I discovered I had a gift for putting my thoughts down on paper. I don't know when I first realized this ability, but it has helped me excel in school, advance in my career, and made life easier in many ways. In high school, I must confess that I made a fair amount of scratch writing term papers and book reports for other students, even some enrolled at University of California or California State University campuses. If you needed a paper, and you knew somebody who knew me, you could get a guaranteed "A" for a little cash. The going rate for a high school book report was 30 bucks and a term paper could cost you up to 60, depending on the subject matter. If you were in college, the minimum charge was $50, but I might charge up to $100 if the subject was something difficult or obscure like Recombinant DNA Synthesis or Husbandry Techniques of Inner Mongolian Farmers. I took great pride in never having a paper returned by any of my clients with a grade less than an A.

So you might say I was a professional author, of sorts, though I never received credit for any of the papers I wrote. At one time I envisioned life as an author or journalist, but my true love was (and still is) making music. I wanted to be a rock star (doesn't every Southern California kid?) and spend my days writing songs and nights playing in front of throngs of screaming fans. Well, I blew that one by having a backup plan. Life did not exactly work out as I had hoped; because these days, I write songs and make music by night, and spend my days living my backup plan.

My career is interesting and fulfilling, though I never would have predicted it. I reconstruct traffic accidents and testify in litigation procedures regarding them. I use my writing skill to pen engineering reports, as well as critique the opposition's experts (I can be brutal on them). I am what is known in legal circles as a professional expert witness, and I have appeared on National Geographic and Court T.V. as an Accident Reconstruction Consultant. I still live in the town where I grew up, and I've been investigating traffic collisions of all types for over 14 years.

Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology The case for separation of church and state

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The separation between church and state has been long dead in the United States, but few of our citizens, and fewer of our children, understand how to distinguish between "religious" doctrine and what is often presented by modern educators as "science" or social enlightenment. Although it is difficult to disagree with the notion that a theocracy has no place in American politics, as a nation we paradoxically support candidates who enact legislation promoting and establishing various religious sects and cults. However, it is these same members of congress and various state and federal agenc...

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