Bob McCarty Writes

Seven months ago, I introduced my fiction novel, SCRATCH OFF, through a series of posts on this blog.  Though the book is not quite finished, I wanted to provide readers of this blog with an update about it:  Those first ten chapters are now posted at authonomy, a new site just launched by HarperCollins.
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After reading the transcript of the speech Barack Obama delivered in Berlin yesterday, I’ve concluded that at least two parts of his speech appear to have been “recycled” (i.e., they were used by others first).
In the seventh paragraph of the transcript, Obama said this:
“On that day, much of this continent still lay in ruin. The [...]

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