Archive for October, 2009

The following is a generic Ghostwriter-Client Agreement or Contract that I've used over the years. Since I'm slowly working my way out of this business, I'm sharing all my secrets with you. Have fun with it. My wish for you is lots of great work! Sincerely, William Dean A. Garner Me Cool Ghostwriter 1234 Pullman Lane Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Phone: 800.555.5678 E-mail: me@coolghostwriter.com DD MM YYYY Mr. XXX 1234... »

Over a three-day period, I recorded Fox News in the morning over a span of five minutes, during which it featured at least three members of the news team. To be accurate in my assessment of Fox News, I used a spectrum analyzer to tease apart the various voice frequencies and came upon an interesting fact: 46.3% of the time,... »

Dear Mr. Holbrooke: I've read with great dismay your handling of the Matthew Hoh Affair. Here's my take, something I shared recently with friends in Afghanistan, those who really know what's going on there: "We’re all going YAWN. The silly media manipulate what people should read and hear. I think they feel we’re too stupid to think for ourselves, and the parents... »

Freedom has been redefined by Socialist President, Comrade Obama: FREE-radical DOMination, meaning that the "free radical" Obama, i.e. the man who oxidizes our freedoms, is out to dominate the world with his socialist agenda. STOP FREE-radical DOMination Now Before It Oxidizes You, Too. . .... »

More beautiful than a buckeyball, as evanescent as a carbene molecule, FREEDOM is the rarest molecular structure in the Universe. It requires a continuous struggle against the inexorable forces of chaos, a neverending fight against the demons of entropy, and a day in-day out battle against evil itself--those who oppose freedom. The Free Radical, Comrade Obama, is now about to sign away... »

What's a good book worth to you? Thirty dollars? Ten dollars? A buck? When you read a great novel or work of nonfiction, do you consider what the author slaved through to share her thoughts with you, to edit and polish her best work so you could enjoy 15 hours of entertainment? Do you care that she invested 1,000 hours... »

You've heard it all before: Obama is the new God and he's on a warpath of change. Change this, change that; ne'er ponder the consequences or whether change was necessary to begin with. Change is good! Sounds like Gordon Gecko's "Greed is good" speech to shareholders of a company he was about to take over . . . and then dismantle,... »

Things are tough over at Vatican, Inc.: membership is waaay down since the Spanish Inquisition, morale is getting kinda low since the introduction of laws against pedophilia, and the Collections Department has resorted to buying coffers that're 50% smaller but that come with frilly pretty things to make them appear as large as before (and they're still not near capacity... »

All the news networks carry pretty much the same messages, just packaged slightly differently. When one network, say, Fox News challenges the president on various issues and gets slapped around by the White House, what happens to those challenges? I mean, really, what becomes of those vociferous allegations from seemingly smart, thinking people? Do these people follow up on them... »

The following is my response to negative comments about an open letter by the US Army's 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division's commanding officer,  Colonel David B. Haight, who wrote a very touching missive, an open letter to all his troops. The letter can be found here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-10-15-letter_N.htm Let us not forget the differences between our elected government and our military: it... »