Odds ‘n Sods:

Linda U. sent this news link from Wyoming: Fear & reloading: More people are buying guns amid worries about Obama’s re-election and predictions of the world’s impending doom.

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Mary F. liked this piece, which she described as “Prepping as performance art”: Building a Better Apocalypse

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Ulysses Press (one of my publishers) sent me an update on the printing history for “Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse”. I was amazed to see that there are now 122,000 copies in print:
Nov. 2011 –    20,000 copies
Apr. 2011 –    24,000 copies
Aug. 2010 –   18,000 copies
Sept. 2009 –  12,000 copies
May 2009 –   8,000 copies
Apr. 2009 –    20,000 copies
Mar. 2009 –    11,000 copies
Feb. 2009 –    9,000 copies

(For comparison, a typical American novel sells between 5,000 to 10,000 copies before going out of print in less than a year.) It is now obvious that there will have to be at least one more printing of “Patriots” before my third novel (titled “Founders”) is released in October, 2012 by the Atria Books Division of Simon & Schuster.

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Greg P. mentioned this fascinating invention: Chumby co-founder designs open-source Geiger counter

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Eric Holder 1995 Video: “…really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way”. (Thanks to The MSIV for the link.)