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| 08/26/08 |
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Univeral Healthcare . . . One Day by Kevin Willis |
Universal Healthcare will be awesome, cuz the government is better at managing everything. Isn't it true?
And if we don't get Universal Healthcare, it proves we're still a fundamentally racist country! It's the issue that keeps on giving. |
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| 08/12/08 |
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People are Idiots by Kevin Willis |
| That may be a little harsh. And, surely, tainted by my own personal political biases. But I can't help but think that it's also a little true, especially given the arguments--and the amazing presumptions--certain commenters on certain blogs are prone to make.
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| 08/05/08 |
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Free Web Search Engine Submission by Kevin Willis |
| I'm just posting this one to be nice, because I've been trying to submit a website to a lot of search engines, and it's a pain in the butt. These folks help, and don't demand anything unreasonable or overly time-consuming in return. |
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| 08/01/08 |
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Black Apple by Kevin Willis |
| Black Apple is a fantasy story I wrote in 1990, based in the same fantasy world of Ashealla as a 1986 novella, Only for Leasia. Although I've been working on a fantasy novel set in the same universe for the past seven years, Only for Leasia and Black Apple are the only stories set in this particular universe that I ever finished. Only for Leasia is much larger and needs some polishing before I post it, but this one is just right in it's original form. So here it is! |
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| 07/30/08 |
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Reduction by Kevin Willis |
| "Reduction" was written in 2003, motivated--as much of my sci-fi stuff is--in trying to take a hard-science fiction approach to an old formula, in this case the old "Incredible Shrinking Man" formula. Movies and literature have had people shrinking, or being shrunk, for years--but in the physical world, there would be real challenges in terms of physics and chemistry to both actually shrinking a living creature, and such shrinking would definitely have negative effects on the creature being shrunk. Plus, I've been a big fan of nanotechnology since I read K. Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation. |
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| 07/28/08 |
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Rain on Mars by Kevin Willis |
| Another story I wrote circa 2003, this one about a Martian colony. I always thought it would be interesting to do a story about Mars that wasn't fantastical, didn't depend on some 10,000 year old alien civilazation for the drama, and had more to do with real-world politics and corporate bureaucracy than the average Mars story ever did. Thus was born: Rain on Mars. |
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| 07/25/08 |
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Houdini's Box by Kevin Willis |
| This is a story I wrote in 2003, an idea inspired by Jill Sobule's song, "Houdini's Box". I'm sure it's not what she had in mind, but I was listening to the song while working on one of my many unfinished novel, and it came to me completely done in my head. I think I actually wrote it down in two days--which is awfully fast for me, even for a short story. It's a fairly dark story, and deals with a child dying, so if that's not your kind of thing, I suggest you stay away. |
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| 07/24/08 |
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The Bowels of Hell by Kevin Willis |
| The Bowels of Hell is a short story I wrote in college, slightly ammended with a few more details a few years ago. I've always loved this story of a college English class taking a field trip to Hell. I sent it to a few magazines, and no takers, so apparently it's just me. But here it is, in all its glory. |
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| 07/23/08 |
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Mud by Kevin Willis |
| This is a short story I wrote in 1989 about the love and longing and being unable to connect with the object of desire. As personified by a mud-creature that lives in a pit on an old Southern farm. I've been meaning to put some of the fiction I've written over the years online in some form or fashion, and this is it. |
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| 07/22/08 |
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| 07/21/08 |
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| 04/30/08 |
Just a Couple of Links (Updated) . . . by Kevin Willis |
| 04/25/08 |
I'm Doing a Different Kind of Blog Now by Kevin Willis |
| 03/10/08 |
Elliot Spitzer Apologizes by Kevin Willis |
| 02/07/08 |
The 1/2 Hour News Hour by Kevin Willis |
| 01/08/08 |
I Picked HD DVD Again, And Here's Why . . . by Kevin Willis |
| 12/19/07 |
The Golden Compass Falls Flat by Kevin Willis |
| 12/17/07 |
I'm Choosing HD DVD, And Here's Why . . . by Kevin Willis |
| 12/17/07 |
In Praise of Humanity by Kevin Willis |
| 11/30/07 |
I Don't Want To Sound Nutty, But . . . by Kevin Willis |
| 11/26/07 |
The Amazon Kindle: The Edsel of the Internet Age by Kevin Willis |
| 10/04/07 |
Harry Shearer Said Political Journalists Were Too Nice to Bush by Kevin Willis |
| 09/11/07 |
Koogle Peanut Butter! by Kevin Willis |
| 07/31/07 |
tracert by Kevin Willis |
| 07/30/07 |
And It's Just a Commercial by Kevin Willis |
| 04/13/07 |
Don Imus Is a Conservative? by Kevin Willis |
| 04/11/07 |
An Email to Thomas Jefferson by Kevin Willis |
| 04/04/07 |
Debunking Global Warming, Part 5: Comparing Global Warming to Teen Slasher Movies by Kevin Willis |
| 02/28/07 |
Debunking Global Warming, Part 4: Environmentalism as Religion, Silencing the Critics by Kevin Willis | | Browse Article Archive . . . |
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The Politics of Blood from First Things. link added 09/03/08 by Kevin Willis |
| Apparently to folks of the left, the ends will always justify the means. Ruin people, lie, cheat, steal, anything short of murder (and, hmm, who knows, maybe that, too) is okay if it means you get universal healthcare and progressive taxation. Learning that, on the left, the end always justifies the means is why I'm not a liberal today. |
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And It's In Spiegel! link added 04/03/08 by Kevin Willis |
| A great story about a heroic soldier. <sarcasm>Suck on this, you pinkos! </sarcasm> |
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Horror Movies Are About White Guilt Over Gentrification? link added 10/31/07 by Kevin Willis |
| An excellent example (from AlterNet, where else?) of overthinking without serious thought. Horror movies are about villifying displaced native Americans and ethnic minorities in slums? Time after time, it seems well-bred, well-educated folks can be mind-numbingly foolish. |
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Take the Global Warming Test link added 04/18/07 by Kevin Willis |
| How does Global Warming reall work? What really causes it? Is there really a consensus? Take the Global Warming test and see how much you really know! |
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Dubya More Environmentally Friendly Than Al Gore link added 02/28/07 by Kevin Willis |
| But that's not the conclusion of this article. The conclusion of this article is that because George W. Bush lives an environmentally friendly lifestyle in his own life, he's bad! He should be mandating that the unwashed masses have to cripple their lifestyles and live like luddites to satisfy the liberal elites: who, like Al Gore, don't live the restricted lifestyle the advocate for everybody else. |
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Is Bush a Lunatic? Molly Ivins link added 05/17/06 by Kevin Willis |
Is Bush insane or just stupid? Are the Republicans crazy or evil? With these thoughtful, reasoned questions, Molly Ivins launches a campaign to help Republicans in November.
She thinks a $70 billion dollar tax cut is proof of insanity, but the fact that the economy is firing on all cylinders and almost everybody is doing better because the economy is so strong . . . doesn't figure into it. Tax cuts are bad!
She notes a typical definition of insanity as "doing the same thing and expecting different results", but one might also think that seeing great results and yet persistently wanting to do different things (that, historically, have produced poor results) is smart. Huh? |
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Country Boy, Nina Burleigh link added 04/19/06 by Kevin Willis |
Liberals hate America so much that hearing a child recite the Pledge of Allegiance makes them cringe. Fortunately, liberal parents can indoctrinate their kids in how rotten America is and how Christians are the modern equivalent of Nazis. Yay!
Oh, and that backwards hick school her son had to attend for a little while taught him how to read and write much better than his more sophisticated counterparts in more politically correct metropolitan New York. But that's not nearly as important to these sophisticated liberal intellectuals as teaching their kids to hate Bush and be frightened of Christians. |
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