Tag: news
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One of Us (South Boston), article by Jennifer J. Roberts
I absolutely love this article and I am so thankful the author of it came forward. It shows that things are not as binary as the press and activists try to make out. Are there humans involved? Yes. Then it will be complicated. Just the way it works. Please, also note what she says about…
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Attacks on Asian Americans over COVID
(Originally posted in 2021) In Book Five, Escape, I wrote the scene of Eric Wong and the Colonel before learning about these attacks. In retrospect, these attacks make the scene even more poignant. Eric would know about these attacks in what would be for his timeline the recent past. On a personal note, all but…
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Nuclear Winter
When we think of “nuclear winter,” we typically think of radioactive fallout in the sky caused by massive amounts of nukes going off and when it rains this down, everything dies. And we are wrong. Nuclear winter actually refers to firestorms all over the planet—caused by the detonation of nukes—reaching the stratosphere and spreading out,…