Missive #702 Published 27 April 2026

How to Slay a Wizard is about the people who run the tricks, the tricks themselves, and the one lie at the root of every spell ever cast on a living man or woman. It is not a political book. It is not a religious book. It is a book about manipulation, who does it, how it works, and why it requires your participation to be effective.
This book will teach you what a wizard is, what an alchemist is, and why the difference matters. It shows how spells are structured like jokes that never deliver the punchline. It explains why the most forbidden word in America is forbidden and what the vampire myth is actually describing. It tells you how to spot a liar before the lies take root. And at the very end, the book exposes the one lie that has to be believed in order for any of it to work on you. It is so simple you might laugh. That's the point.

Missive #699 Published 22 April 2026

I may have read this book many years ago but glad that I have read it now. A entertaining book that brings to light what the military is like in many respects. Recommended.

Missive #698 Published 20 April 2026

In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church’s internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later, Steve Keen argues that economics needs its own Reformation. In Debunking Economics , he eviscerated an intellectual church – neoclassical economics – that systematically ignores its own empirical untruths and logical fallacies, and yet is still mysteriously worshipped by its scholarly high priests.

Missive #696 Published 18 April 2026

This is the second essay, published as a book, in the 'Future series'. I again asked ChatGPT to write the book review which I think is much better than the promo.

Missive #694 Published 16 April 2026

When the Witchmen caused the earth to move and called forth the fires from the mountain's inner depths, the Moon Maidens, Ahrmehnee, and Thoheeks Bili's troops barely escaped with thier lives. Driven by the flames into territory said to be peopled by monstrous half-humnas, Bili was forced to choose between braving the dangers of nature gone mad or fighting the savage natives on their own ground. But before he could decide, his troops were spotted by the beings who claimed this eerie land as their own and would use powerful spells of magic and illusion to send any intruders to their doom...

Missive #693 Published 14 April 2026

This book is the first in a series that are essays that have been published as books although they are very short. The Book Review was written by ChatGPT at my request. It is my plan to ask for more such reviews for the books in this series and perhaps for other books. I think what was said here by ChatGPT is of more value to a potential reader than a Book Promo from the publisher and repeated by goodreads.com or Amazon.