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CDR: Justice and Fairness
"But it's not FAIR!" cry five-year-olds world-wide.
Loosely translated into adult-speak, five-year-olds world-wide mean, "I WANT!" And as anyone who has reared children can attest, the protest is invariably rooted in coveting what some other five-year-old has and usually ends up involving some kind of bad behavior,
So, does anyone doubt that politicians who promise "fairness" are pandering to the Citizen's inner five-year-old child?
And what of Justice? Well, while the word 'fair' appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or in The Constitution, Justice is an essential part of the very mission statement for this country
The Citizen's Desk Reference is not a civics or a history book, a political manifesto or a manual for community organizing or an attempt to sway your vote left or right or otherwise. These books are like a software manual or the universal remote control operating instructions handbook that is stacked up or stuffed away somewhere particularly unhandy, especially when things aren't working right and you have finally reached the RTFM (“Read the [insert preferred expletive] Manual”) stress point so common with modern technology.
The Citizen's Desk Reference is presented as a series of ebooks which can be read in order or, like most manuals, randomly -- even haphazardly browsed according to the crisis or interest at hand.
Loosely translated into adult-speak, five-year-olds world-wide mean, "I WANT!" And as anyone who has reared children can attest, the protest is invariably rooted in coveting what some other five-year-old has and usually ends up involving some kind of bad behavior,
So, does anyone doubt that politicians who promise "fairness" are pandering to the Citizen's inner five-year-old child?
And what of Justice? Well, while the word 'fair' appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or in The Constitution, Justice is an essential part of the very mission statement for this country
The Citizen's Desk Reference is not a civics or a history book, a political manifesto or a manual for community organizing or an attempt to sway your vote left or right or otherwise. These books are like a software manual or the universal remote control operating instructions handbook that is stacked up or stuffed away somewhere particularly unhandy, especially when things aren't working right and you have finally reached the RTFM (“Read the [insert preferred expletive] Manual”) stress point so common with modern technology.
The Citizen's Desk Reference is presented as a series of ebooks which can be read in order or, like most manuals, randomly -- even haphazardly browsed according to the crisis or interest at hand.
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First published November 15, 2012
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M.T. Bass
29 books389 followersEvery author was first a reader. My aim is to pay forward at least some small portion of the fun I've had and the discoveries I've made from reading great books, holding fast to the notion that while victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.
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Just so you know what you might be getting into, my favorite five novels are:
1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
4. Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
As much as I love real, physical "meatspace" books with real paper pages ("Real tomato ketchup, Eddie?"), I have to confess that eBook publishing has not only enabled my story-telling disorder, it has amped my reading back up without breaking my back, since I can carry my entire library around in my iPad Mini.
So it goes…
To join my mailing list and keep in touch (and get a free download), click here.
Just so you know what you might be getting into, my favorite five novels are:
1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
4. Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
As much as I love real, physical "meatspace" books with real paper pages ("Real tomato ketchup, Eddie?"), I have to confess that eBook publishing has not only enabled my story-telling disorder, it has amped my reading back up without breaking my back, since I can carry my entire library around in my iPad Mini.
So it goes…
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