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[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

I have.  The publishers won't touch it with a five and a half foot Lithuanian (the height and most ancestry of La Esposa).  Possibly because everything I have to say has been done better by others.  L. Neil Smith (www.ncc-1776.com), Vin Suprynowicz (http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/Vin_Suprynowicz.html), and just about everybody who does a regular gig on www.lewrockwell.com.

I didn't invent the stuff I go for.  Others were there first.  I started by reading Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand when the legal system considered me a child.  Well, most folks consider you a child when you're seven or eight years old, especially if you're reading stuff that wasn't assigned by your teacher.  But my personal autobiography isn't really that special or unique.  (Well, maybe the years with Radio Shack, but since I was in tech support the memories weren't setting while the liver damage was in first place so it's hard to write about).  (Not special to Radio Shack, ask anybody who's done tech support anywhere, even from Bangalore -- I'd wager that liquor sales in that part of India have gone up at least eight-fold since outsourcing became popular).
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

"What I know [about the art of the sword] boils down to this:  If you see a guy running at you with a sword, put two rounds in his chest to slow him down, then one into his brain to finish him off".  Aaron Allston, _Sidhe Devil_

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From: Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net>
> Much enjoyed, write a book.
> 
> Tim
> 
> wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
> > My local pharmacist won't sell me the jars of potassium nitrate I used to 
> purchase regularly when I was in junior high.  40-odd years later and somebody 
> invents the damned TSA and anti-PATRIOT Act.
> >
> > Yeah, there are a few horse farms around, even in North Jersey, so I could go 
> gather and reduce the niter the old fashioned way (La Esposa would NOT like the 
> smell).  But I'm getting old and the TSA is still watching.
> >
> > I'm on the No-Fly list because of my politics, not because I made explosives 
> back when I was a kid and it was legal.  Though there's a possible connection 
> between my youthful activities and my older attitudes.  (Odd thing is, I never 
> fired a rifle until years after I stopped making bombs, and I'd never use a bomb 
> as a weapon -- bombs kill uninvolved bystanders and a rifle kills only who 
> you're aiming at -- but the USAF wasn't awarding marksmanship ribbons when I 
> qualified for one in Basic).
> >
> > Two months until election day -- vote from the rooftops.
> >
> > Oh yeah, I had a few beers before I went to bed and the sun in my eyes woke me 
> up much too soon, so it's probably a good idea to ignore this message and any 
> advice given.  La Esposa is down in Atlanta for the weekend so I guess I'll 
> visit that horse farm down in Burlington and scrape crystals off of the stable 
> walls.