Kim was a young female supervisor whose lack of experience caused chaos and divison within child protection unit employees. Kim got into the life of a congressman called Devon, and maliciously... More > attempted to use his political position as leverage to intimidate her assistant commissioner. She was once in love triangle involving Devon and his longtime friend Big Daddy.< Less
Kim was a young female supervisor whose lack of experience caused chaos and divison within child protection unit employees. Kim got into the life of a congressman called Devon, and maliciously... More > attempted to use his political position as leverage to intimidate her assistant commissioner. She was once in love triangle involving Devon and his longtime friend Big Daddy.< Less
U.S. Rep. Steve King, a western Iowa Republican who has long inhabited the fringes within his own party, seems to be hurtling into insanity, and is undoubtedly the biggest freak show going these days... More > in Iowa politics. Whether "designing" his own plans for a wall with Mexico or analogizing prison abuse in Iraq to frat-row hazing or comparing supporters of certain stem-cell research with Nazis or questioning journalist Helen Thomas' sex appeal or running around taking photos of war protesters or bringing up unicorns when talking about lesbians King is an increasingly embarassing ambassador for western Iowa. The short book, "King Kong Krazy" chronicles some the congressman's outrageous comments and approach to public service.< Less
U.S. Rep. Steve King, a western Iowa Republican who has long inhabited the fringes within his own party, seems to be hurtling into insanity, and is undoubtedly the biggest freak show going these days... More > in Iowa politics. Whether "designing" his own plans for a wall with Mexico or analogizing prison abuse in Iraq to frat-row hazing or comparing supporters of certain stem-cell research with Nazis or questioning journalist Helen Thomas' sex appeal or running around taking photos of war protesters or bringing up unicorns when talking about lesbians King is an increasingly embarassing ambassador for western Iowa. The short book, "King Kong Krazy" chronicles some the congressman's outrageous comments and approach to public service.< Less
By the 1880’s – long before the Bolshevik Revolution and the horrors of the Russian Civil War – socialism was already a dirty word in the vernacular of successful American... More > capitalists and those who still dreamed of rising to comfortable prosperity or conspicuous opulence. Mortgage foreclosures, bankruptcies, recessions, monopolies, monetary policy, and the concentration of vast wealth in the hands of a small but powerful plutocracy were perennial topics of debate as the nation witnessed the implacable onslaught of industrialization. The social injustices of the times engendered a plethora of utopian novels attempting to point the way from turmoil to enlightenment. Among the most influential were the writings of Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward: 2000-1887) and Ignatius Donnelly (Caesar’s Column and The Golden Bottle). The novels of Bellamy and Donnelly are the forerunners of a long line of dystopian fiction beginning with H.G. Wells’ Time Machine and continuing through Zamyatin’s We and Orwell's 1984.< Less
In the late 1800's and early 1900's, mortgage foreclosures, bankruptcies, recessions, monopolies, monetary policy, and the concentration of vast wealth in the hands of a small but powerful plutocracy... More > were perennial topics of debate as the nation witnessed the implacable onslaught of industrialization. The social injustices of the times engendered a plethora of utopian novels attempting to point the way from turmoil to enlightenment. Among the most influential were the writings of Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward: 2000-1887) and Ignatius Donnelly (Caesar’s Column and The Golden Bottle). Mann’s study places the utopian vision of each of these works in the context of those seemingly distant – yet all too familiar – times. The novels of Bellamy and Donnelly are the forerunners of a long line of dystopian fiction beginning with H.G. Wells’ Time Machine and continuing through Zamyatin’s We and Orwell’s 1984.< Less
This satirical view about the destruction of American culture should hit the hired Wall Street marchers as hard as it hits followers of the Al Gore Global Warming Church. It’s a full-fledged... More > stinging denunciation of politicians in the 21st century. Through dialogue and quips by Ratoncito, the mascot for a group of San Diego County artists and writers, this book offers humorous bureaucratic stories as well as Geek Poetry by an unemployed cyber-security engineer.< Less
