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The era of lone crazies

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:09:00 +0000

Updated below.

You don't know what people are doing inside their homes. And you especially don't know what crazy people are doing inside their homes. There is a story today about two looney-tunes supporters of Israel:

Investigators said Crawford approached Jewish organizations looking for people to help him with technology that could be used to surreptitiously deliver damaging and even lethal doses of radiation against those he considered enemies of Israel. They assembled the mobile device, which was to be controlled remotely, but it was inoperable and nobody was hurt.

And you'd never know they zapped you. The harmful effects wouldn't emerge for days. Add to this the alarming fact that every crazy supporter of Israel considers just about everyone else to be anti-Israel. That means you or I could have been the targets. And these guys were in New York, not Afghanistan. They're local crazies.

This sort of thing goes on all the time. And let us notice that, as usual, religion is the basis for the insane actions of these American terrorists. Gee, I wonder why. Isn't religion supposed to be a good thing?

Update: It's crazier and crasser than first thought. The Jewish Press has the story. Okay, so it wasn't religious crazies. It was just ordinary, everyday KKK crazies preying on religious crazies. So sue me.

Check out this ominous excerpt:

Two New York residents, one of them identified with the Ku Klux Klan, tried to sell to Jewish groups a deadly X-ray radiation device that one of them described as “Hiroshima on a light switch” and which he designed to zap people to death, according to the FBI, which unsealed its complaint in Albany on Wednesday.

Crazy people. They're coming out of the woodwork.

"Man of Steel" is a religious movie

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:40:00 +0000

We've heard hints that the new Superman movie tries to portray Superman as Jesus. At the time, we recoiled in nausea and thought, "Jeepers! It can't be!" Alas, there is proof:

The studio enlisted Christian-focused firm Grace Hill Media to promote "Man of Steel" to faith-based groups by inviting them to early screenings and creating trailers that highlight the film's religious themes. They also enlisted Craig Detweiler, a Pepperdine University professor and author of "Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century," to create a Superman-centric sermon outline for pastors titled "Jesus: The Original Superhero."

Ugh.

The tale of Superman has long been associated with religious allegories. "Man of Steel," which stars British actor Henry Cavill in the titular role, doesn't shy away from that theme, including portraying the character as 33 years old, having him seek counsel at a church in a time of crisis and forming a cross-like pose while floating in space.

Ugh.

Asexuality is normal, for some

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:05:00 +0000

Oops: Re-posted to add link.

I'm always surprised that people, particularly doctors, have a problem with the idea that there are people who don't have sex and are quite happy. They just don't want to have sex. Period.

I once wrote a post about a shrink I was seeing. (I can't find it at the moment.) This blowhard insisted that I have sex. While I'm celibate rather than asexual (I find it fun to Google "Alex Minsky" images, for instance), I have no interest in engaging in sex. It's been this way since I was 36, at which point I decided sex was too time-consuming and produced little in the way of rewards. I'm 64 now -- and quite happy with my celibacy, thank you.

This article at HuffPo about asexuality reminded me of many unpleasant experiences I had with doctors and shrinks who insisted that there must be something wrong with me if I wasn't sexually active. That is so weird. I find the doctors who profess this opinion to be strange critters. We have to do what you do? Why? (It's kind of like religious people telling atheists we can't be happy without god. Get real; we're happy.)

"We clashed with physicians who thought that what we were doing is dangerous,” he recalled. “They said that we were advocating that it was OK to not be sexual. There was this really strong ethos that sex is a vital part of the human experience and without it, there's something wrong.”

In 2005 Leonard Derogatis, director of the Maryland Center for Sexual Health at Johns Hopkins University, told The New York Times it was hard for him to see asexuals as "normal" human beings.

That's the wall we celibate and asexual people face: disbelief. I don't get it. We're obviously happy. Ask our friends. Why is it so difficult to accept someone's statement that they're happy without sex? Aren't we the ones who would know if we're unhappy?

But...but...but...how will people get cured?

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:12:00 +0000

Note: re-posted to include link. But I couldn't find the original and had to use (shudder) a Fox link. Sorry.

LOURDES, France — Heavy floods in southwest France have forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels.

Throughout Tuesday, masses were gradually cancelled. One by one, entrances to the sanctuary were cordoned off. The live video feed of the grotto went down. Then the electricity was cut off, and then phones.

"A vision of the apocalypse in the Sainte Bernadette Church, where the big movable partition is threatening to fall. The water has risen above the stairs of the choir," read one announcement.

Oh, the humanity! How will people be cured, how will their legs know to grow back, how will their vision return if they're blocked from this holy site? Those poor pilgrims! And the poor Virgin Mary! Without a way to let the miraculous curing rays out of her hands, she'll experience a backup -- and that can be dangerous to a supernatural being!

Oh, the humanity! Oh, the supernatural beings! Oh, drat!

Skip the 2014 Winter Olympics

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:43:00 +0000

LGBT Russians are pushing for a boycott of the Winter Olympics, to be held in Sochi in 2014. Given Putin's incredible hostility to gay people, and the draconian anti-gay laws he's passing, the Olympics will not be safe for gay athletes.

I hope this catches on. Certainly I suggest you try to dissuade friends from traveling to Russia to see the games. And no one should watch them on TV. Actually, I hope they're cancelled. I could see the EU forbidding athletes to attend because of the anti-gay threat posed by fearless leader ~~Boris Badenov~~ Vladimir Putin.

And as far as disappointing the athletes, there's a good chance that Putin would steal their medals anyway. So really, why go?

Hat tip to Joe Jervis.

German writer cries out against American surveillance

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:16:00 +0000

I wasn't surprised to find a story in SpiegelOnline (Der Spiegel's web publication) titled: "Obama's Soft Totalitarianism: Europe Must Protect Itself from America". Indeed. It's a startling opinion piece and I simply must excerpt a whole bunch of it here. (Bolding is mine):

On Tuesday, the head of the largest and most all-encompassing surveillance system ever invented is coming for a visit. If Barack Obama is our friend, then we really don't need to be terribly worried about our enemies.

German citizens should be able to expect that their government will protect them from spying by foreign governments. But the German interior minister says instead: "We are grateful for the excellent cooperation with US secret services." Friedrich didn't even try to cover up his own incompetence on the surveillance issue. "Everything we know about it, we have learned from the media," he said. The head of the country's domestic intelligence agency, Hans-Georg Maassen, was not any more enlightened. "I didn't know anything about it," he said. And Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was also apparently in the dark. "These reports are extremely unsettling," she said.

With all due respect: These are the people who are supposed to be protecting our rights? If it wasn't so frightening, it would be absurd.

Friedrich's quote from the weekend was particularly quaint: "I have no reason to doubt that the US respects rights and the law." Yet in a way, he is right. The problem is not the violation of certain laws. Rather, in the US the laws themselves are the problem. The NSA, in fact, didn't even overreach its own authority when it sucked up 97 billion pieces of data in one single 30-day period last March. Rather, it was acting on the orders of the entire US government, including the executive, legislative and judicial branches, the Democrats, the Republicans, the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Supreme Court. They are all in favor. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, merely shrugged her shoulders and said: "It's legal."

What, exactly, is the purpose of the National Security Agency? Security, as its name might suggest? No matter in what system or to what purpose: A monitored human being is not a free human being. And every state that systematically contravenes human rights, even in the alleged service of security, is acting criminally.

Those who believed that drone attacks in Pakistan or the camp at Guantanamo were merely regrettable events at the end of the world should stop to reflect. Those who still believed that the torture at Abu Ghraib or that the waterboarding in CIA prisons had nothing to do with them, are now changing their views. Those who thought that we are on the good side and that it is others who are stomping all over human rights are now opening their eyes. A regime is ruling in the United States today that acts in totalitarian ways when it comes to its claim to total control. Soft totalitarianism is still totalitarianism.

A simpler approach would be to just force American firms to respect European laws. The European Commission has the ability to do that. The draft for a new data privacy directive has already been presented. It just has to be implemented. Once that happens, American secret services might still be able to walk all over European law, but if US Internet giants like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook want to continue making money off of a half-billion Europeans, then they will have to abide by our laws. Under the new law, companies caught passing on data in ways not permitted are forced to pay fines. You can be sure that these companies would in turn apply pressure to their own government. The proposal envisions setting that fine at 2 percent of a company's worldwide revenues.

That's a lot of money -- and also a language that America understands.

Sanctions against America for its criminal surveillance policies and laws? Sounds exactly right to me. (And Dianne Feinstein is an un-American pig. This is nothing new; she has always been a pig.)

Sounds like this won't be something that Obama can sweep under the rug. Good.

Supreme Court abolishes the Fifth Amendment

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:52:00 +0000

It's depressing. We have a wingnut "supreme" court that has no idea what it's like to be a normal, non-privileged American. All their friends are rich, so that's the only group they consider in their decisions.

To make a long story short, they decided that if the police take you down to the station house and question you -- without arresting you -- and you "remain silent" in response to questions, your silence can be used against you! Duh. This is the exact opposite of the Miranda rights. I can't imagine a more un-American decision. Do the justices even live in this country?

In light of this appalling decision, I assume that requesting an attorney before being questioned will be a defendant's only "right". But to instantiate this right, the person would have to know enough to claim it -- and that would require an awareness most defendants don't possess. Due to financial circumstances, poor people tend not to be well-educated, so it's absurd to expect them to know what to do in these situations. And most immigrants, particularly recent arrivals, will also be unaware of their rights.

So the police will know these facts while the ~~victim~~ defendant does not. The officers will have the upper hand at all times and will hold off on arresting a suspect, hoping he will "go silent". And then they can do whatever the hell they want to him.

America. Land of opportunity. This is so sad.

Separation of church and state in the European Union

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:00 +0000

“There is a movement in the European Union that wants total religious neutrality and can’t accept our Christian traditions,” said Archbishop Zvolensky, [the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Slovak capital] bemoaning what he sees as a rising tide of militant secularism at a time when Europe is struggling to forge a common identity.

There go those "militant" secularists again. What an irritant they must be, huh? So what made Zvolensky so upset?

[T]he National Bank of Slovakia announced that the European Commission, the union’s executive arm, had ordered it to remove halos and crosses from special commemorative euro coins due to be minted this summer. The coins, designed by a local artist, were intended to celebrate the 1,150th anniversary of Christianity’s arrival in Slovak lands...

Ah, I see. The nasty old EU won't let Slovakia plaster government-issued coins with halos and crosses, thus blocking the god-given right of Christians to place their religious symbols wherever the hell they please. Those darned militant secularists! They're always ruining everything.

Yup, it's the same old story. Christians want to paint the world with crosses and gods and mentions of heaven and grace and sin. But those nasty secularists keep stopping them! To deluded Christians, this is "religious persecution". Horrors!

Christians will never understand that they can't force the world to worship their god. They see their pushing of religious iconography into the public sphere as a god-given right. It's not. It's religious piggery.

Feel free to worship your stupid, nonexistent god, but leave the rest of us alone. That shouldn't be so hard to understand. But to religiously damaged minds, apparently it is.

“I need to voice a serious and disturbing suspicion: that the E.U. is under the control of Satan or Satanism,” said Rafael Rafaj of the Slovak National Party, a far-right nationalist party.

The view that the European Union serves Satan has become a popular theme for some extreme Christian fundamentalists, who cite the Bible’s Book of Revelation as proof that dissolving national boundaries signals an approaching apocalypse.

Sigh.

Keith update

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:00 +0000

It seems I'm getting better. (Which obviously means that dog loves me. In fact, it's a miracle! Hallelujah!)

Today I'm breathing normally. I can even take a really deep breath, which is very nice after not being able to for a few days. I think this means I'll soon be well.

And when I get well, you know what'll happen. Tons more blogging, that's what. But for now, you'll have to settle for the slim pickin's I've managed to bang out.

Hang on. I shall return in full force. And praise dog! I suggest we all eat a biscuit tonight in his honor. Hail dog!

Two cute kid things

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:57:00 +0000

At this time of year, local newscasters often go to the beach to interview people. And it seems they always try to include little kids in the interviews. They ask the kids stuff like, "Is the water fun?" or "Do you like the sand?"

I've noticed that when this happens, very small children tend to look into the microphone as they respond. I suspect they think the camera, TV and audience are all inside that microphone. Add a couple of years to the kids' age, and they completely ignore the microphone and look at the person who asked the question. Kinda fun.

The second item concerns a young African-American girl who was interviewed during a news segment filmed at a city library. She was perhaps six or seven years old. When the "reporter" asked her why she enjoyed reading, the child responded with a look of wonder on her face.

She said, "When I read, I go into the book!" And her face lit up like she was seeing heaven.

I thought, "By Jove, I think she's got it!"

Jesus is in Phoenix

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:23:00 +0000

There's been a new, incredibly stupid Jesus-sighting. I suggest you kneel as you read the following excerpts from a highly ignorable story. Apparently right now, this very second, Jesus is appearing as a stain on a tile floor at the Phoenix airport. Hallelujah!

The smudge — dubbed the "Tile Jesus" of Terminal 3 — is seeing worshipers flocking in their hundreds to catch a glimpse.

"It's definitely Our Lord Jesus Christ," said unemployed dental hygienist Becky Martin, who's visited the site every day for the last two weeks.

"He appears to us from time to time in ordinary places, to remind us He is here with us always, being our spiritual guide," she added to the Phoenix New Times.

Highly uplifting. Truly.

I'm skipping the new Superman movie

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:32:00 +0000

Superman is Jesus. More precisely, in the new movie, Superman: Man of Steel, we are meant to draw very distinct parallels between Superman and Jesus. Arguably, the movie goes a step further making Superman the modern-day, Americanized Jesus.

Jeez, it's like when Ridley Scott ruined the latest Alien movie by making it all about jeebus. Christians ruin everything. It's what they do.

What's with these atheists who like church?

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:42:00 +0000

First we had Alain de Botton, with his idiotic idea to create an atheist church in Britain. Duh.

And now there's the Sunday Assembly, an atheist church co-founded by a comedian named Sanderson Jones, who seems to be a glossy 2013 version of a hippie. In the article, should you choose to read it, you'll find paragraphs like this:

"We've had discussions with the Church of England as to how we can work together, and one fellow said, 'we'll have to get you in touch with some vicars who don't believe in God.' "

So yeah, the article is minimally fun. But the idea is nonsensical. Atheists don't need anything that seems remotely like a church. We all do quite well without it. In fact, it's one of the great things about being an atheist: you don't have to go to church. It's what makes Sundays fun!

I think it's a terrible idea. You, however, may feel differently. In which case, you can comment here and tell me all about it.

Great Bruni column

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:25:00 +0000

Frank Bruni's "The Pope's Gay Panic" is one of the best takedowns of Vatican hypocrisy that I've ever read. Funny, incisive and biting. I don't want to steal his thunder, so I'll just give you the first paragraph:

I HAVE many questions for and about the “gay lobby” in the Vatican, but I’ll start with this: How can you be so spectacularly ineffective?

Seriously, go read it. You'll thank me.

94-year-old scientist, Dick Post, still going strong

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:21:00 +0000

This guy is something else. He's like a teenage genius in a 94-year-old body. Here's a bit about him from physorg:

The 1990s revived the interest in flywheels as storage for solar and other energy systems. Technology had finally caught up with ideas that Post had decades before: in a 1973 article for Scientific American - co-written with his son Stephen - Post envisioned flywheel uses for storing energy and powering cars and homes.

Post has been called the "father of the modern flywheel," a title he dismisses as "too generous." The rapidly spinning devices not only store energy with minimal losses, but they also generate it.

"It's a very old idea, storing energy in the form of rotation in an object," he said, comparing it to a potter's wheel.

Post visualizes underground installations of the graphite fiber-composite flywheels at power plants, and smaller devices for homes and cars. He hopes to test them within a year.

"Energy bills would be essentially zero," he said.

I mean, really. A 94-year-old guy is poised to invent a way to provide free power for everyone, regardless of income. I am truly impressed.

And all you old people who are farting around, doing nothing with your lives should take note. Age is not an excuse to vegetate. I suggest you drink a strong cup of espresso to get started. And then wake up!

Photo credit: Jacqueline McBride/LLNL

I'm a wreck today

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:35:00 +0000

This will be my only post today unless the pope says there is no god. For that, I'll come back.

I'm suffering from the Tall Person's Plague. Yup, my back is out and it's really painful. It was almost impossible to sleep last night. I've also got that thing where I can breathe only in short takes. It's too painful to inhale more deeply. (And yes, I told my doctor about this. He shrugged.)

Today is also my nephew's graduation party -- and there isn't a cicada anywhere out there. It's the demons; I'm sure of it. They scared the cicadas back into the ground.

Anyway, see you tomorrow.

Odd story about latter-day hippies

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:05:00 +0000

SpiegelOnline delivers some unique perspectives. There's a story there today about a group of young people who want to save the rainforest. The interesting thing is how they're going about it: by using sex, nudity and pornography.

The writer focuses not only on the group, which is called "Fuck For Forest", but on a documentary that was made about them. It, too is called "Fuck For Forest".

The group's idea is to make porn, using themselves as models, and sell it. Then they'll take the money they earn, and save the rainforest with it. Offhand, I suspect it will take a lot of sex and porn to reach this lofty goal -- but that's their plan and they're sticking to it.

About the director of the documentary:

The director says two questions primarily interested him: "What price does one have to pay to live in a world without rules?" And: "Are these people freer than the rest of society?"

The view is negative throughout, in the article and apparently in the documentary, but I rather like these people. And I'm not sure whether the disapproval is based on what they're doing, or is simply a rejection of "idealism", which apparently is considered foolish in this day and age.

Anyway, it's an odd read and I thought you might enjoy it. You won't find an article like this in an American publication.

That gay kid who sings

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:49:00 +0000

There's a heartwarming video here about Jonathan Allen. Just go watch it.

(When I was 12, I told my mother I was gay and she said, without missing a beat, "Then I'd rather you were dead." So I'm really enthused by this kid who had a similar experience and thrived.)

Be who you are, and never apologize for it.

Media never had sex, apparently

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:38:00 +0000

There's a headline at the Daily News today that says:

"NSA leaker once bragged about sex marathons and the joys of 'post-coital Krispy Kremes' ".

Duh. Seriously, is that headline from junior high, or what? Only someone with a pathetic or non-existent sex life could think that's interesting. So here's another thing the media has to do: go out and have some sex (if anyone will have you).

Note: No link because the words only appear on the headline page.

The popeyguy said this

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:11:00 +0000

In a short, rather inconsequential AP article at the NYT, we learn what Pope Francis said about gay marriage when he was a mere cardinal in Argentina.

"But if they're granted marriage rights and can adopt, there could be children affected. Every person needs a masculine father and a feminine mother to help them settle their identity."

So now straight fathers have to be masculine, and straight mothers must be feminine, in order to earn god's approval? There's a ton of nelly straight men out there who are under the impression that they are real, valid fathers. And there's an equal number of tomboy mothers who've given birth and raised their kids up till this very moment. Those poor, blind straight people! Little did they know they're not authentic parents. But the news is out now. The popeyguy's past words tell the tale.

I guess these inadequate parents will be forced to hand in their marriage certificates and hit the road. Kids need butch fathers and fem mothers. Without these key ingredients, the poor children will be confused -- and might even succumb to the temptation of becoming gay themselves. Mercy!

Will Christian nitwits come to rule the US?

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:14:00 +0000

I used to think the wingnuts who crawled out of the woodwork during the Bush years would disappear at some point. I figured the old white Christian nitwits who led them would die off and the movement would die with them. I no longer believe this.

In the mid-East, they have a system of madrassas, little "schools" within which knowledge can find no purchase. The children merely memorize idiotic Muslim texts, and regurgitate the words. It is their only form of "knowledge". In such a society, there can be no progress.

Here in the United States we have a Christian Taliban version of these madrassas. Here, it is called "home schooling". Like the madrassas on which they are modeled, this is an environment that is completely knowledge-free. The world, science, history, real people -- none of this can make its way into the minds of home-schooled children who are supervised by Christian Taliban parents. Read the bible, regurgitate. Listen to the preacher, regurgitate. Visit Ken Ham's museum, oh squee! And so it goes.

From this sewage pit, a new generation of Christian leaders will emerge. And they will be at least as ignorant as their forebears. In this way, the Christian Taliban reaches into our future, and snatches it away. Fairness and equality will be annihilated in the society that they create: one that merges government and fundamental Christianity.

And jeebus will rule the dungheap for all eternity. Hallelujah!

I found the above image on Rich Gibson's blog. Interesting site.

Stage two for the Boy Scouts

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:59:00 +0000

So the Boy Scouts thought they were off the hook. Not so. Today, Caterpillar takes the next logical step.

PEORIA, Ill. — Caterpillar Inc. says it will no longer give money to the Boy Scouts of America because the organization doesn't allow homosexuals to serve as adult leaders.

Half-done isn't the same as done. Congratulations, Caterpillar. I'll remember this the next time I'm in the market for huge farm machinery.

Pew Research Center's GLBT survey

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:27:00 +0000

I haven't seen a comprehensive breakdown of the survey yet, but this line in a short article jumped out at me:

Forty-eight percent [of GLBT respondents] said they had no religious affiliation, compared with 20 percent of the general public.

Gee, I wonder why.

Why isn't there a Straight Pride month?

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:30:00 +0000

The headline above is the title of a terrific LZ Granderson article at CNN. Here's an excerpt:

Just as Stokely Carmichael's "Black is Beautiful" became the rallying cry against racism in the 1960s; just as "I am woman, hear me roar" was the anthem against sexism in the 1970s; "gay pride" is the banner that flies over a people whose dignity continues to be put to a vote in 2013.

And his answer to why there isn't a Straight Pride month is this:

Because Congress has yet to pass a law requiring people to hide the fact they are straight. Because the streets are not filled with children who have been kicked out of their homes for being straight. Because there seems to be a lack of stories in which someone has been beaten, tied to a fence and left to die or shot in the face at point blank range because they were straight.

I've heard bigots ask this question many times. Now they've got their answer. Good to see this on a popular site like CNN.

New book description for Xmas Carol

noreply@blogger.com (writenow) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:47:00 +0000

I've decided not to hide the point of Xmas Carol. I never mentioned atheism in the short book description on Amazon. Friends kept telling me it would be a bad idea to bring it up. "Let people read the book and discover it for themselves," was the advice. I went along with this grudgingly, and that's the way things have remained since I published the book.

Until today. Here's a longer description that will appear everywhere except at Amazon. (At Amazon, you only have a small space to describe the book, but it's sold at all online bookstores. So this applies to the other vendors.) Anyway, here it is:

It's time for a different kind of Xmas story. In "Xmas Carol", a cast of atheist characters faces a terror the world has never known.

When Maria Kennedy lost her first child, she had a second daughter with the help of her gay brother's husband. She would do anything to protect this child. But what is a mother to do when something she cannot see, a creature created by science, hungrily reaches for her daughter?

An inclusive cast of gay and straight characters faces this challenge without help from god. Can they win the battle?

In the end, “Xmas Carol” is a tale of redemption that offers a new version of heaven. And this time, it's real.

The story begins on Halloween. And as the calendar moves inexorably toward Xmas, the threat becomes apparent and the tension mounts.

"Xmas Carol" is a brand new take on the horror genre. This season, hop on board. Xmas will never be the same.

Now people will have some idea of what they're getting into when they buy the book. It's only three bucks, kids. Get your copy now. (Non-Kindle versions available here.)