Carl Douglass

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Carl Douglass

DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM

Why should we care who gets elected?             My opinion–that of many who are not committed by party affiliation to one candidate or the other …

Carl Douglass

DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM

A Second Trump Presidential Administration A mass deportation operation. A new Muslim ban. Tariffs on all imported goods and “freedom cities” built on federal land. …

Carl Douglass

DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM

Enter Donald Trump The most startling impact of the apparently unwavering evangelical support for the Republican Party was the election of Donald Trump as president–who …

Carl Douglass

DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM

What danger is the American democracy in, if any? Politically, the changes in GOP/evangelical politics began with a swing of conservative evangelicals to the Republican …

Carl Douglass

DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM

Evangelicals and Politics Today Historically, Americans have been skittish about mixing religion, politics, and government; and part of the connection to the old monarchial regime …

Carl Douglass

DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM

The great divide in the United States; is it a harbinger for the future of democracy?     The United States has long been identified …

Carl Douglass

DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM

PART IV Lessons from the past, and harbingers for the future of democracy In Poland and Hungary, the aptly dubbed “illiberal democracies” have taken hold, …

Carl Douglass

DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM

PART III. From revolutions around the world to republican democracy in the United States             The establishment of universal male suffrage in France in 1848 …

Carl Douglass

DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM

PART II: The slow and inconsistent rise of democracy in the West   The early connecting themes in eighteenth-century political discourse were commerce and morality—not …

Carl Douglass

DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM

Historically, democracies have had a struggle to persist, and most of them eventually failed. I will begin my dissertation with a few important examples including …

Carl Douglass

HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY

How to speak British, Course 101:   British English is considerably more complex and difficult than many writers would think. It has differed over eras …

Carl Douglass

The Doctor’s Primal Fear To Err Is Homicide

Part V. The Case of British surgeon (Mr.) David Sellu The case of David Sellu–a Black surgeon–has bearing on the issue of the doctor’s primal …

Action & Adventure

All In Jest – Chapter 13

All In Jest CHAPTER THIRTEEN Sybil was nervous and cranky the morning of the deposition. She ran her preparations over and over again through her …

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All In Jest – Chapter 12

All In Jest CHAPTER TWELVE There were seven continuances, in all, for the van der Hoef case, stretching over nearly as many years, before the …

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All In Jest – Chapter 11

All In Jest CHAPTER ELEVEN Things were going too well, it seemed to her. Dr. Norcroft was now established officially as the region’s certified skull …

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All In Jest – Chapter 10

All In Jest CHAPTER TEN           Once again at home, Sybil took stock of her situation. She was overreacting to the outcome of the Evangelina …

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All In Jest – Chapter 9

All In Jest CHAPTER NINE           The war of attrition launched by Paul Bel Geddes started insidiously. Sybil’s deposition in the van der Hoef case …

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All In Jest – Chapter 8

All In Jest CHAPTER EIGHT Gerrit van der Hoef’s grandfather had worked in the Westminister County boat yards making tug boats. Gerrit’s father had worked …

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All In Jest – Chapter 7

All In Jest CHAPTER SEVEN 2013 was a good year for Sybil Norcroft, M.D., PhD, F.A.C.S. George and Dolly’s four-year-old filly, Moccasin Walker, sold for …

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All In Jest – Chapter 6

All In Jest CHAPTER SIX Blackman Schwartz met Sybil in the hospital cafeteria a week after the verdict in the Brendan McNeely case was delivered. …

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All In Jest – Chapter 5

All In Jest CHAPTER FIVE Pancho had become the de facto foreman of Sybil’s ranch, in part because he was the eldest and most experienced …

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All In Jest – Chapter 4

All In Jest CHAPTER FOUR After the deposition, Sybil felt depressed. Her attorney, her friends, and her family all reassured her, told her not to …

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All In Jest – Chapter 3

All In Jest Chapter Three As soon as Sybil put down the receiver after her conversation with the aide at the medical examiner’s office, she …

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All In Jest – Chapter 2

All In Jest Chapter Two The courtroom was stuffy–hot and full of the smell of tension. Sybil Norcroft felt the worst she could remember, second …

I chose to use a pseudonym for personal reasons. I’m a retired neurosurgeon living in a rural paradise and am at rest from the turbulent life of my profession. I lived in an era when resident trainees worked 120 hours a week–a form of bondage no longer permitted by law. I served as a Navy Seabee general surgeon during the unpleasantness in Viet Nam, and spent the remainder of my ten-year service as a neurosurgeon in a major naval regional medical center. I’ve lived in every section of the country, saw all the inhumanity of man to man, practiced in private settings large and small, the military, academia, and as a medical humanitarian in the Third World.

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