by Piper Bayard | Oct 7, 2013 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You, News
By Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes It has come to the attention of Bayard & Holmes that the Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of Peoples of the World (ASUCPW) nominated the Russian President, KGB officer Vladimir Putin, for the Nobel Peace Prize. At first,...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 30, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes On Saturday, September 21, terrorists of Somalia’s al-Shabaab al-Qaeda affiliate entered the upscale Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and went on a four-day killing and hostage-taking spree. They allowed people who appeared to be Muslim to leave...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 23, 2013 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes As of September 22, 2013, the civil war in Syria continues to generate more humanitarian disasters than the world’s observers can tolerate. Identifying Syria as a humanitarian crisis is simple enough. Refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey now house...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 18, 2013 | Life and Death, News
Until last week, I didn’t know what a flood looked like. In fact, before this past week, I had the complacent notion that the world would stay pretty much as it was when I was born, at least for the duration of my time on it. After all, how often does a 500-Year...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 16, 2013 | Humor, News, PRISM
By Piper Bayard First it was the NSA peeking up our digital skirts, illegally collecting and storing raw intelligence on Americans to paw through at will. Then the other four of the Five Eyes—Australia, the UK, New Zealand, and Canada—crowded up for a glimpse. Then I...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 12, 2013 | News, PRISM
By Piper Bayard I could list the civil liberties we have lost since 9/11, from security against unreasonable search and seizure to the officially sanctioned vilification of those who exercise their right to bear arms, but that would be a dissertation and not a blog....
by Piper Bayard | Jun 17, 2013 | Apocalypse, News
FIRELANDS, my dystopian thriller, was born on June 4. To celebrate, I want to thank my fellow bloggers and awesome readers for helping it to achieve a 10 on the Debut Novel Apgar Scale. To do this, I have created the FIRELANDS Apocalypse Reader/Blogger Challenge. To...
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