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About me

Alissa King is a recovering preschool teacher who ran away to the Oregon Coast to write a pomegranate cookbook. In her spare time she writes online articles, raises an Amazon, and tries to keep housepets alive. Some of her mental detritus can be seen at Stop and Wander.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

passion.

I know too much about ...

poker and Archie comics

My childhood ambition ...

to fly. When this didn't pan out, I decided to write books.

Why I write ...

I love to write. Its hard to start and then there is no finish, but that scowling, striving for the right word, consuming need to create well is what its all about.

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

The Glass Castle...West Wing reruns... loud neighbors

Featured article by Alissa King

Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism The ethics of torture in the War on Terror: 1 of 28
Hans Albrecht Bethe once wrote, "If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Gengis Khan, who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."In the aftermath of two botched car-bombings in the United Kingdom, a colleague observed to me that British Intelligence must have used torture in order to learn so quickly of pending attacks. He said that only torture could have loosed the terrorist tongues so fast. I felt compelled to question ...
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