JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

Shakespeare was dead right about what to do [first] with lawyers: #DeadRightorDeadFirst. Skyscraper Heavens (2015) An anti-novel by John Rubens

Ecclesiastes 1:9: “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

Is the iphone a “new” thing.  Will it be “new” in twenty years?

Did the religious platform of George W. Bush renew “America” despite his detractors?

I love fighting with young women. I guess it’s because I can’t have sex with them.

If we’re pushed 2 “it” many R #jACKRuby. November 22, 1963: I was TV addict.

“ISIS”? [sic]
“Egyptian”
“Republican Stronghold”
“Bastion of liberal capitalism”
“savages”
“kooksville”
“concentration”
“Salem”
“Reservations”
“Retreat”
“Monastery”
“Sanctuary”
“Church”
Precinct
Ft. [Presidio, for instance]
San Francisco Fan
Dodger Blue
Crip
Blood
Territories of US

“ISIS”? [sic]

“Egyptian”

“Republican Stronghold”

“Bastion of liberal capitalism”

“savages”

“kooksville”

“concentration”

“Salem”

“Reservations”

“Retreat”

“Monastery”

“Sanctuary”

“Salem”

“Church”

San Francisco Fan

Dodger Blue

Crip

Blood

Territories of US

“Being an officer means making people do things.”

“You’re saying I’m not ready or I will not tow the line on the things I persuade soldiers to do?”

The U.S. Army Captain’s silence and the feeling in the air I was wasting his time answered both questions.

Historical Fiction

Ft. Irwin, CA 1995

“It [transforming the metaphysical into the physical] involves a political reversal.” One Dimensional Man (1964, 1968 paperback ed. at 234) by Herbert Marcuse

“Bad News” for Christian Meat-Eaters? As the world gets more interconnected and we have a duty to serve, the numbers of brothers and sisters we offend by eating meat is bound to increase.

Dear Thomas L. Friedman:

Maybe the world is a little flatter.  Vin Scully, long time sportscaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers fav’d a tweet I sent him!

The City of Taft has access to both Americana and the Dodgers.

Thank you for your book, The World is Flat (2005).

Sincerely,

John Rubens

Los Angeles, California

May 21, 2015