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    No Fake News but Plenty of Hogwash
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    No Fake News but Plenty of Hogwash

    By Tom Harley

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    Like the weather of most towns – ‘don’t like the narrative just now? Stick around; it will change.

    Also containing an unanticipated tribute to dear old Dad, who dominates at end-of-book. It is as the apocryphal quote of Mark Twain realized: ‘When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.’

    Sure to delight the preacher of the good news and the non-preacher alike. Sure to delight the scientist that can pull off the self-deprecatory humor of the author. Scientist-philosopher-atheist-cheerleaders may not like it, though. Critiques within of today’s evangelistic atheists, who are not the ones of yesteryear. Sigh - if they believe it, they believe it. But it is hardly something to celebrate. Is it not a little like the fellow who loses millions in the stock market? Undeterred, he celebrates the thousand dollars he still has left and says ‘Well, they were only paper gains anyway.’

    The book was originally written hastily – too hastily - as an on-ramp leading into my first book, Tom Irregardless and Me. Keep the original if you happen to have it - it will be worth hundreds someday - but it was a bit sloppy in places. Revised, the book now stands on its own. In some ways it is the better of the two, as it breaks bolder ground and it is more personal. Released at the halftime show of the 2017 Super Bowl, by Lady Gaga, while you were up getting pretzels. We worked on it for months – her people and mine. She put everything on the line, catching the football at concert’s end. Had she dropped it, her career would have been toast.

    Introduction
    Chapter 1 – Tales of the Holiday
    Chapter 2 – Tales of the Supermarket
    Chapter 3 – Tales of Music
    Chapter 4 – Tales of Technology
    Chapter 5 – Tales of Media
    Chapter 6 – Tales of Medicine
    Chapter 7 – Tales of Authors
    Chapter 8 – Tales of Lowlifes
    Chapter 9 – Tales of Science
    Chapter 10 – More Tales of Science
    Chapter 11 – Tales of Family
    Chapter 12 – Tales from the Group Home
    Chapter 13 – Tales of Loyalty
    Chapter 14 – Tales of Love
    Chapter 15 – Tales from the Funeral Home
    Chapter 16 – Final Tales

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Harley
    Release dateFeb 6, 2017
    ISBN9781370907250
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    No Fake News but Plenty of Hogwash
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    Tom Harley

    Tom Harley lives with his wife and dog in New York State. He plays bi-weekly games of Scrabble with his brother, who cheats. Lately he has taken up playing Splendor with his wife. She lost badly at first and was getting discouraged, so he gave her some pointers. Now he can’t beat her. Why did he do that?Tom is also a practicing Jehovah’s Witness for many years. He has many an anecdote to share with regard to spiritual life and is author of two special-focus books—one a defense the faith in Russia, and one a defense of it in Western lands.In his lighter moments—and he tries to stay light throughout, even on serious topics—he loves self-deprecating humor. He also likes the kind of humor where you make fun of yourself. He loves hyperbole. He also likes wild exaggeration to make a point.

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