By their very nature, most newspaper columns and editorials are
ephemeral. They are often written in haste to meet a deadline, and
what excites interest today may elicit only yawns tomorrow or the
next day. This is especially true of community newspapers, whose
focus is on matters of interest to a smaller, parochial readership.
This book is a collection of pieces that step outside that mold.
The author's broad education (four degrees, including a Ph.D. and a
J.D.) and wide range of work experiences (college professor,
probation officer, prosecuting attorney, professional magician,
novelist, editor, publisher, and grocery-store sackboy, to name a
few) have provided him with a unusual perspective from which to
observe and comment on the problems and pleasures of being a
sentient being on Planet Earth in the twenty-first century-and on
how we got to this point in human history. Inspired by the example
and encouragement of the newspaper editor who gave him his first
job in journalism, the author has inflicted upon the readers of
several newspapers his reflections on a broad and eclectic range of
subjects, from religious and racial intolerance to UFO "sightings"
and the beauty of a toad's eye. Throughout it all, the author has
been motivated by one unvarying purpose-to make his readers think.
Not just about last week's school board meeting or next month's
municipal elections, but about ideas and issues with a shelf-life
longer than that of ripe tomatoes in your grocer's produce
department. Here, then, are half a hundred of those pieces, rescued
from dusty newspaper "morgues" and offered to a broader audience
than the unsuspecting subscribers to whom they were originally
addressed. The author will be pleased if you read them, but he will
have failed in his purpose unless reading them makes you think.
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