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Who is Melinda Snodgrass anyway?

After eight years as a novelist which included the publication of her CIRCUIT trilogy, and co-creating, editing, and writing for the Wild Card series, Melinda began her career as a story editor on STAR TREK:TNG, and wrote the Writer's Guild Award nominated script THE MEASURE OF A MAN. She worked for REASONABLE DOUBTS, and PROFILER, wrote six pilots, and had one produced and aired, STAR COMMAND. She is currently working on the third book in the EDGE series, has delivered the first book in a new urban fantasy series, and is starting on the second.  She has two screenplays currently under consideration in Hollywood.

“If H.P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason . This one will delight thinkers--and outrage true believers--of all stripes.” --George R. R. Martin
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\"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus... in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.\"

Thomas Jefferson (1742-1826)

Mankinds Earliest Structure

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You have to check out this article about a ancient temple complex in Turkey.  The site is dated to 11,500 B.C. which sort of drives a spike through the idiotic fundamentalist notion that the world is 6000 years old.  (As if dinosaurs didn't do that already, but hey, nobody said these people were rigorous thinkers.)

I'm coming up on the one year anniversary of my amazing trip to Turkey and now I want to go back _right now_.  I would love to tour this site.  The haunting emotions I felt at Hattusa (the Hittite capital) were overwhelming.  I can't imagine what this must feel like.

I also made a Turkish eggplant dish for dinner last night, and the flavors of plain yogurt, garlic and tomato took me back to that amazing country.


You Want Bureaucrats...?

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I had just read this chilling article this morning, and then I heard a friend was in the hospital.  I hope he has insurance.  I hope it's better than catastrophic. I talked with my former mother-in-law today, and her Crohn's medication runs $2500 a _month_.  I'm grateful I can control my disease with a cheap, old fashioned sulfa drug.

All of this  got me thinking again about health care reform.  How the Repubs have scared everyone into being against their own best interests.  Fear tactics about bullshit "death panels", fear that "government bureaucrats will interfere with care.  Well, read this article, and think about these bureaucrats having control over your life.

I talk with my friends in Australia.  They have a medical card.  They go to the doctor.  The office person swipes their card.  They see a doctor.  Compare that with a woman, sick and scared trying to get someone to listen to her, much less work with her.

And woe betide if you are sick and alone.  You're weak, you hurt and now you have negotiate this thicket of forms and drive all over town for tests where you fill out more forms.  You need a healthy person to accompany you just to deal with the bullshit.

I'm so angry over Republican obstruction and Democrat cowardice that I could scream.  Add to this my head is about to explode over the continuing revelations about Bush era torture.

I am not in a happy place right now.


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