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I'm a sort of inner city gargoyle by nature. I knocked around for years being thematically broke, then finally got a stable job and began painting and playing music.

Finally got a chance to write, took a redundancy package, and have been writing solidly for

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Politics, News & Issues > Politics in Asia Speculating on the future of China: 2 of 19

THE CHINESE ECONOMY; SUPERDRAGON There's a logic to China that would make a fiction writer cringe. The huge advances of the last decade have come against the most appalling history. Chinese economic history since the fall of the Qing Dynasty until recently has been one of the great horror stories of all time. After Dr. Sun's...
Politics, News & Issues > Natural Disasters Can and should America be doing more for Katrina victims?: 1 of 9

A FOREIGNER'S VIEW OF KATRINA AND THE AMERICAN RESPONSE One word that will never be used to describe Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath will be "funny". Far less than humorous is the story of the relief efforts. We've just heard about the 854 million dollars of foreign aid which was offered. Kuwait offered 400 million dolla...
Home & Garden > Annuals Growing geraniums: 1 of 8

GROWING GERANIUMS Geraniums are usually the toughest, most enduring, plants in any garden. In one place I was living, we had a geranium actually growing through the concrete around the house. A bit of local knowledge research discovered that it was a remnant of a previous cottage garden from the 1920s. It had outlasted the e...
Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends Has the trend toward Reality TV improved the quality of television shows?: 7 of 51

REALITY TV- GARBAGE IS GARBAGE Reality TV is based on the premise of lowest level identification with situations and characters, as portrayed in short burst, high intensity "moments". Not unlike a combination of a game show and a soap opera, but shallower. The precedent-formula-buying methods of networks are the main reason ...
Sciences > Sciences (Other) How the dinosaurs died: 1 of 7

The dinosaurs were the definitive survivors. They'd brushed off earlier extinction events, various planetary cataclysms, and were at the height of their diversity during the early Cretaceous period. They had characteristics of birds, mammals, and reptiles, and were easily the most efficient and adaptable animals ever. Their ...
Business > Management (Other) Management-employee perceptions: A more individualized approach: 1 of 7

The most obvious cultural change in business management in the last 30 years is the advent of the management science motif. It's also the basis for the general loathing of management techniques and the utter contempt in which management is held by so much of the community. There's nothing more predictable in the workplace th...
Religion & Spirituality > Ghosts & Paranormal Phenomena The case against believing in paranormal activity: 1 of 6

There is usually some form of scam running about paranormal phenomena. Cults thrive on the inexplicable, the pseudo-spiritual, and the merely ridiculous. However bizarre, somebody knows all about it. It may be one of history's great mysteries, but they, mainly for being such nice people, are fully informed. They are also var...
Arts & Humanities > Middle Ages Biography: Elizabeth I of England: 2 of 9

Question; what leader of a nation spent nearly her entire life under threat of assassination, rebellion, and in direct confrontation with the only superpower of her time, and laid the foundations of her country to become a global power? Answer; Elizabeth The First of England. Here we have the story of a successful leader who...
Society & Lifestyle > North American Culture How the media in America is corrupting its youth: 1 of 4

YOUTH CULTURE- A HIDDEN RISK It's a matter of opinion whether youth culture could be any cheaper and nastier. The present generation is getting the absolute worst of mass media's slopfest. Not only is it dreck, it's formula dreck. It's about as exciting as diarrhea, and about as hygienic. It's written and produced for idiots...
Society & Lifestyle > Racism The book industry sees the world split by race: 3 of 10

The book industry uses race and ethnicity as marketing tools. Theory says that it helps identify the market demographic. This rather quaint view of modern readers adds another dimension to the belief that the industry is run by sales people, not those with any literary inclinations. Cynical as one may be about the ability of...