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How to avoid awful committee writing: Go back to the beginning

“A camel is a horse designed by a committee.” That’s been attributed to more than one person, and it’s an excellent way to describe written documents that get approved by authorities who are more concerned about things other than the content of the documents themselves. In other words, documents produced by corporations and governments. Recently, […]

  “A camel is a horse designed by a committee.” That’s been attributed to more than one person, and it’s an excellent way to describe written documents that get approved by authorities who are more concerned about things other than the content of the documents themselves. In other words, documents produced by corporations and governments. […]

Charlie Hebdo: On the front lines in the war on freedom of expression

There is a world-wide, religious war going on right now, even though Western, democratic and governmental leaders don’t want to admit it.   It’s not a war prosecuted by all Muslims, not by any stretch. But it is a war, a campaign against freedoms the West purports to stand for: freedom of thought, freedom of […]

Cover of Army of Worn Soles by Scott Bury, showing worn army boots on a stone floor, with shadows of hammer-and-sickle and hooked cross symbols looming.

The true story of a Canadian conscripted into the Soviet Red Army in 1941, Army of Worn Soles is coming out in e-book and print formats on June 22, 2014, the anniversary of the opening of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s Germany’s invasion of the USSR. A memoir in novel form, it’s my third full-length book to […]

The first Canadian Authors Association National Capital Region Book Fest is wrapping up a little early, and that means exactly what you think it means: it’s been disappointing. Not the content. I enjoyed meeting fellow authors, comparing notes, swapping experiences. But the traffic, the number of potential readers and book buyers that came through, was […]

Image by MiloDarkAngel, DeviantArt.Used under Creative Commons licence.  One kiss from you, I’m on fire Heat across my face Spreads through my body at once. I love you, Roxanne.

Image borrowed  from Zazzle In Foucault’s Pendulum, semiotics originator Umberto Eco wrote the argument that should have killed any conspiracy theory involving Templars, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, the Illuminati and any other secret society that manipulated governments, courts, corporations and international organizations. Sadly, the nutbar ranters of the world are not very well read. I received a […]