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I Spent 10 Years As A Marketing Manager. I've Found My Experience In The Financial World Invaluable Background For Writing About White-collar Crimes.

I Guess I Don't Have A Candidate Who Makes My Heart Go Pitter-patter The Way I Wish It Would. I'm Thinking, Here's An African American Candidate - Yes! And Here's A Woman Candidate - Yes! Why Can't I Get Behind Either One Of Them? Don't Tell Me I Have Latent Sexism Or Racism That I Need To Confront. I Don't Believe That. I Think We Are So Burned By The Current Situation That We Want Somebody That It Isn't Possible To Have. We Want Someone Who Definitely Looks Like The Messiah.

If I Were Elected President, The First Thing I Would Do Would Be To Set Up A Department Of Restoring The Bill Of Rights. I Would Have 10,000 People Working There.

I Had Wanted To Write Ghost Country For A Long Time, But It Wouldn't Work.

The Decimation Of Lebanon Was Showing Up In Chicago As A Series Of Restaurants And Little Shops, Just As The Destruction Of Vietnam Had Been Visible Here A Decade Earlier. If You Never Read The News But Ate Out A Lot You Should Be Able To Tell Who Was Getting Beaten Up Around The World.