This is just too low-watt to reply to. Read my other work to see what I do if you don't like this but care enough to spend your time reading it and commenting. www.danielgenis.net

Well I'm lucky to have you judge me then, aren't I? Because everyone appreciates the righteous members of society. I never say anything behind a screen that I wouldn't say to a man's face. Because I learned how not to be a coward. I was tested, and passed. And you?

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Look me up on www.danielgenis.net and let's talk. Also, teach 'Farnham's Freehold' if you want to rattle some windows.

I've had half my family persecuted by Stalin and the other half by Hitler; my parents fled the Soviet Union in 1977. I am well aware of totalitarian states. Bush was not a dictator because while he may have reached office illegally, he left it as he should have. He was no Chavez, but he was a real embarrassment. I…

The Renaults and Citroens are allegorical in this sentence; I'm saying that the cars on the road resembled European models much more than they used to. It's not embellishment, it's metaphor. But the Mini is quite real and parked in NJ.

Not at all; I prefer European cars. But there was a nativist movement which had a lot to do with Detroit propaganda, subsidies and oil prices which convinced Americans to buy Hummers. Sports cars were once the refuge of a scoundrel, but about 15 years ago it was monster sized SUV's. The price of gas knocked some sense…

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It's a cognitive difficulty... my grandfather worked on the first Soviet computers but couldn't figure AOL out. He asked me to write the steps down, and I did the best I could, but he never managed to get a handle on it because he couldn't learn by just trying stuff... Nevertheless, I only had problems with the…

There'd be a comma after 'jerk'.

". Because part of being tolerant includes being tolerant of those that have different beliefs than you. " That there is the real truth. You are experiencing a disgust with the righteous. I feel it every day. The people clapping for the boycotts are applauding themselves.

I have written about my crimes, expressed my regret and shame, and apologized in print dozens and dozens of times. You can witness this by looking through my my pieces and the commentary following them. You are also assuming that the facts are correct. The dates are, the number isn't, and I don't remember such an old…

I do read them, even though everyone tells me not to. There are some sweet and encouraging messages, but also judgmental, insulting and incorrect ones. Somebody wrote that I get published because of my father, who only works in the Russian world and had no way of helping. There's other stuff. The best I can do is…

Thank you; I love Flann O'Brien myself, but Pynchon... 49 I liked, and I read the entirety of Gravity's Rainbow in expectation of a Ulysses for our age. But I did not find one. I think a better candidate is Infinite Jest. Check me out at www.danielgenis.net, or on FB. Thanks!

Totally complete; you got the chance to pass judgement on me! Righteousness will make you happy and well-liked, I'm sure of it.

Thank you, and I am sorry that you feel hollowed. Of course it rocks your faith in truth, justness and the objectivity of right and wrong. But it can also make life vivid in a way most Americans are too comfortable to ever experience. It made a writer of me. Good luck.

I've been writing van Winkle stories, and you brought up a good question. How different would the resultant articles be had I spent the last decade in a hospital instead?

Don't I wish it was fiction!

This vulgarity doesn't belong here…..

No no, it's understandable. God knows I've had nastier comments. Apparently some readers want the electric chair for me...