Tim Barrus is my co-writer.  He has been running a school for boys at risk who have HIV-AIDS, fewer of them die now.  But Tim himself is dying.  Besides the AIDS he has Avascular Necrosis (bone death) and lung damage from repeated pneumonia.  He stays alive with a complex system of drugs plus rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light or anything else that gets...

“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas   The first amendment to the Constitution of these United States of America recognizes five rights (or freedoms) – those being the freedom of religion, of speech,...