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The Question None Of Us Are Asking


Having just read this, I felt my entire world tilt into a new frame of reference.

And now, what I find myself asking myself is this:

Having allowed ourselves to be goaded by our super wealthy super elites into raping and pillaging the resources rich region of the Middle East for them, enthusiastically aiding and abetting as they line their pockets with billions of our tax dollars and trillions worth of loot, spoils, and blood spattered war profits...  will we now manage to pull our heads out of our asses long enough to significantly mitigate one of the vast entrenched economic interests whereby those same super wealthy super elites continually rape and pillage our health care system as they line their pockets with billions of our tax dollars and trillions in ill got pharamceutical and blood spattered insurance premium profits?

Or, to put it another way, as our newly anointed reform government continues unabated the same predatory, profit oriented foreign policy as the previous entirely immoral administration initiated and prosecuted with insane and murderous zeal, it's wonderful that we Americans are still so magnificently self centered that we've made the issue of whether or not that same reform government can save us some money on better health insurance the crucial concern by which that reform government will succeed or fail.

It's good that we've got our priorities straight, and, as always, our hearts are in the right place.

 

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Born in the heart of a nuclear explosion, DOC NEBULA came snarling into existence at the dawn of time, armed and armored to wage a war on entropy for the sake of all existence. Now, accompanied by that band of hard rocking scientists THE HONG KONG CAVALIERS, he races across the universe...

No, wait. That's some other guy entirely.

I'm starting again.

Snatched from limbo and brought wailing into Earthly existence in late 1961, DOC NEBULA quickly became a living legend among his peergroup, even though he would not think to call himself by the name "Doc Nebula" until decades later when he got his first online account and needed a screenname and all possible variations of "GiantMan" were already taken. (Sad but true. Doc is a big Hank Pym fan.)

In the early years of this incarnation, DOC was regarded with an awestruck admiration by his peer group that frankly bordered on religious worship, said awestruck admiration most commonly being manifested in the form of ridicule, public humiliation, and frequent beatings whenever an adult authority was not in the immediate vicinity to intervene.

Undaunted by this, DOC NEBULA escaped the horrors of childhood and entered the hallowed halls of Academe at prestigious SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, back in the late 70s when the English Department had not yet been taken over by a pack of gumchewing idiots who threw out all the classes on Shakespeare and replaced them with seminars on People Magazine.

At SU, DOC excelled in his fields of study, quickly mastering such arcane arts as pizza consumption, sleep deprivation, keeping every square inch of floorspace covered at all times with pornography, empty pizza boxes, and old issues of Steve Engelhart's AVENGERS, and most importantly of all, how to schedule all his classes so he never had to get out of bed before 1 PM. (Not that he attended many of them anyway.)

Dropping out of college without a degree, DOC embarked on a nomadic existence, wandering from job to job, apartment to apartment, always seeking that effervescent and intangible something we all call Happiness, but which DOC likes to think of as an old Army duffle bag stuffed to the top with bulky bundles of 20s, 50s, and hundred dollar bills.

In 2005 Doc Nebula somehow tricked the most wonderful woman in the world into marrying him, making him the offical stepfather to the three most wonderful stepdaughters in the world, which is really quite enough for any man and more than most can brag, thank you very much.

He has written seven or eight novels, six of which are available in Kindle editions, a whole bunch of short stories, and does a whole lot of other geek related stuff you don't care about. Many of his book length works can be found at:

Universal Maintenance

Time Watch

Endgame

Earthquest

Warren's World

Warlord of Erberos

ZAP FORCE #1: ROYAL BLOOD

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The Fear Masters

Memoir:

In The Early Morning Rain

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