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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.
An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.
For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.
He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.
Ruminations and provocations.
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In three short months, some white Americans have grown so impatient to “get back to their normal lives” that they’re willing to sweep the image of a man being brutally suffocated under the rug. How long, it must be asked, have Black Americans been waiting to get back to a normal life?
Read MoreIn Trump’s alternate reality, the world’s most disastrous COVID response has, somehow, been the best. The math there is positively Orwellian. Instead of asserting that 2 + 2 = 5, he maintains that the millions of COVID cases and 200,000 deaths add up to success.
Read MoreTrump is like a quack doctor who ignores the cause of a disease (racism) so he can treat the symptoms (violence) with painkillers (“law and order”) that are intended to mask the problem but only end up making it worse. Then, when the patient dies, the doctor says it’s because the patient didn’t take enough painkillers.
Read MoreYes, Trump will fire up his base with racist fears. But when it comes right down to it, more people are scared of COVID-19 and economic ruin than they are of losing Confederate flags and statues, or of largely peaceful protests. Even when Trump, by his own actions, goads protesters into violence, that violence doesn’t directly touch most people’s lives. The virus and paychecks do.
Read MoreThere’s never been any question that Donald Trump wants division, and now it’s equally clear that he wants violence, because it plays right into his hands. The minute people become so frustrated, so infuriated, that they lash out against his policies with any semblance of force, he can strike them down, say, “I told you so!” and impose martial law. That’s where we’re heading.
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