James J. Patterson

  • Hank Thomas On Bermuda Shorts

    True Story: last night I propped up my reading pillow with the idea of making it through a few chapters of “Bermuda Shorts,” a new anthology of short stories, some fiction but mostly of the memoir variety, from James J. Patterson, or Jimmy to his many friends. I didn’t have a lot of time for

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  • Joanna Biggar On Bermuda Shorts

    “Happily, early on, James J. Patterson discovered that the bumpy road through life was lined with books. Clearly, somewhere along the way he pulled out a volume of Montaigne. ¨The young 20th century rebel must have found much to admire in the French Renaissance thinker’s essays, and especially the meaning of the word essayer, to

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  • The Only Way Out!

    The Only Way Out Of The Financial Crisis! Economist Paul Krugman smells smoke, so he’s yelling “Fire!”! In an op-ed piece in the New York Times, he sees a new and prolonged depression setting in. Meanwhile, Simon Jenkins at the London Guardian has a solution that could and should take fire all around the globe,

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  • Pattersonian Update

    Vagabonds unite! Quick takes here on The Tea Party’s Presidential candidate, Texan Secession, Summer Reading, CEO Compensation, Immigration, The World Cup is a Fraud, Bermuda Shorts Updates, and yes, More Summer Reading…

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  • Calling All Economists II

    A year or more ago I sent an appeal to Patterson’s Vagabonds to debate the idea that America should suspend sending jobs to “Slave Nations” like China, by simply stating that no job should be exported to a country that does not allow collective bargaining. Since not a soul replied, I can only conclude, the

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  • Let’s Plant Trees!

    OBAMA SHOULD PLANT 20 BILLION TREES FDR in the 1930s employed 3 million Americans between the ages of 18-25 in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and among other good deeds, they planted five billion trees…

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