Reflections
Blasphemy or Reality? God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great, by British journalist Christopher Hitchens, is the atheists’ equivalent to Pope Pius IX’s published Syllabus of Errors, which enumerated the high crimes of modern religion’s sins. Hitchens, most recent atheist manifesto, not only places God in the witness box but is filled with one liners that Hitchens has developed as the [...]
Breast Cancer Update
According to Jian-Wei, M.D. of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, booze actually fuels breast cancer. Apparently, a recent study showed that breast cancer in women makes up 60% of alcohol-attributable cancers worldwide. Jean Carper, of EatSmart, believes that this is the first time researchers have been able to demonstrate in a novel mouse model [...]
Caution: Summer Does Not Mean the End of Severe Weather!
Each year more than 1,000 tornadoes touch down in the United States and lightening strikes the earth some 20 million times. In fact lightening is actually more prevalent during summer storms. In order to protect yourself from lightening there are a few rules that you should follow. Take shelter in a sturdy building. Unplug appliances [...]
Government Assassins Take Deadly Aim in Iris Johansen's Thriller Dead Aim
Johansen’s latest thriller begins at Arapahoe Dam, the site of a destructive mudslide that has buried an entire town. At the site, we find photojournalist Alex Graham, her friend Sarah Logan, and Sarah’s search and rescue dog, Monty. Alex who specializes in taking pictures of disasters, accidents and terrorist attacks sets off the action when [...]
Conspiracies, Homicide, and Mercy Killing by a Sisterhood of Nurses Sets the Scene for The Sisterhood by Michael Palmer
With The Sisterhood, Veteran M.D. Michael Palmer brings to life the fears of humankind regarding the right to die with dignity, as well as, the question of if we can truly trust those hired to care for us when we are unable to care for ourselves. The murderous plot revolves around two groups of clandestine [...]
Presidential Campaign Needs Someone Other Than Hillary Clinton
While none of her proposals are off the charts and she doesn’t vary much from the other Democratic candidates, we must remember that Bill Clinton set up America for 9/11 by not responding in an appropriate manner to foreign policy issues. Another factor against her is that for the next four years our intelligence is [...]
Gamers Wanted to Participate in MainStream World Series of Video Games
Hardcore video gamers are usually thought to be teenage boys with messy hair who stay up all night with their eyes glued to the computer screen in front of them. However, passionate gamers come in all sexes, ages, and economic brackets. Matt Ringel, commissioner of the World Series of Video Games, is currently offering normal [...]
Corrupt Politicians, Crazy Vets Come Together in Black Friday by James Patterson
James Patterson’s Black Friday is a dramatically contemporary vision of a stock market thrown into chaos; a terrifying look at what one group of saboteurs could do to the western economy by destroying some of Wall Street’s key financial institutions. Protagonists include Arch Carroll, head of the CIA’s antiterrorist division, and Caitlin Dylan, director of [...]
Religious Thriller Buffs, Don't Miss Solomon's Key: The Codis Project by R. Douglas Weber
Dan Brown’s religious conspiracy genre series has resulted in many knock-offs but none of them offer the insight and depth of Weber’s novel, Solomon’s Key. While unbelievable, the reader will find Weber’s novel even meatier than Brown’s as they experience the novel way in which he blends the Vatican, movie star cult icons, spies, and [...]
Kudos To Dan Brown For His Venture Into The World Of Angels And Demons Within The Catholic Church
In Angels and Demons, Dan Brown takes on a host of surreal themes from secret societies that plot against the Vatican to particles of antimatter that can blow buildings apart and jets that can travel at speeds of up to 15,000 miles an hour. Add to these subplots of mad scientists, a romance between the [...]
