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Today is the day I devote to marketing my work, an idea suggested by Scott Edelstein.\u00a0 A day a month on it, then put it away, he said.\u00a0 That way it has time set aside and does not weigh on the work.\u00a0 I’ve done just that since September and I have finished all my short story edits.\u00a0 Next month I will have some to submit.<\/p>\n
I heard from my brother, Mark, who told me a while ago he was afraid the political unrest in Thailand might set off violence.\u00a0 He was right, as he says, regrettably.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
United States democracy, and\u00a0democracies in most of the developed world, are a reasoned trade-off between the power of violence and the assertion of authoritarian government.\u00a0 The nation’s focus on Iowa tomorrow has such edge because the result in that\u00a0agricultural state might change foreign and domestic policy in the world’s strongest economy backed up by the world’s most expensive military.\u00a0\u00a0 That is, we expect a peaceful transition of power between one government and the other, in fact, we insist upon it.\u00a0 Not all countries can harbor such expectations.<\/p>\n
It is just this peaceful transition that Al Gore protected when he refused a public challenge to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Florida voting discrepancies.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0His graciousness\u00a0was necessary, I think,\u00a0in spite of the horrors that resulted directly from it.<\/p>\n
Some people call it the silly season.\u00a0 Others turn off their TV sets and stop reading newspapers.\u00a0 I call it the best show on earth with the exception of the greatest spectacle in racing, the Indianapolis 500.\u00a0 A presidential election year.\u00a0 What a year it is.\u00a0 The first time in 80 years that no incumbent president or vice-president is on the ballot.\u00a0 Think of that.\u00a0 This is the first time in two generations, my whole life.<\/p>\n
The first chapter opens tomorrow in a corn field near you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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