Protect yourself from spin docs, polls, fanatics, business titans, lawyers, academics and other worthies who are willfully befogging language to muddle your brain. Orwell knew what snake oil can do. So did Plato. So did Stalin. So did Hitler. Spin rots the mind.

Here are hundreds of helpful definitions of polluted words and phrases in current use including: alone, courtesy call, customer satisfaction, defining moment, rightsizing, investment, the rich, the poor, the children, mean spirited, sexual relations, alternative turkey, liberty impaired and values clarification. The Dictionary arms you with an intellectual scalpel for de-layering the thick cosmetic overlay of public communications that obscures the real world.

Also included is a short history of language pollution, a selection of great examples of polluted words of the recent past, and a Glossary of Technical Terms such as plastertalk, willietalk, bravebabble, Halloweentalk, tin-eartalk and Trojan-horse construction.

This book is designed to help any careful voter who yearns for a world where, regardless of what anyone swears under oath, that, in the words of T.S. Eliot, 'a cat is not a dog.'

If you believe that no matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, it is still a pig, then this book is for you.  .

Spinmeisters today are everywhere. They seek to befuddle you by polluting our language,  gussying up and diddling down our everyday words, moving familiar signposts, changing the maps in our heads.

Our words – the gold standard coins of rational thinking -- are being debased.  Spin rots the mind.

Continuing growth of spinspeak pushes us daily toward an Orwellian catastrophe: a mentally benumbed America; a manipulated society trying hopelessly to communicate using words with totally corrupted meanings.

Spinspeak II: The Dictionary of Language Pollution is designed to help you fight this slimy tide of fog.  The book contains:  a history of spin;   more than 1,100 current definitions of spinspeak in politics, business, government, academia, health care, the arts and everyday life; a technical glossary describing more than 80 infectious varieties of wordspin, lookspin and soundspin. 

Skeptical exposure is the solution wherever the fog of spinspeak roils communication. The mind you save could be your own.

Factories and Cities, begun more than two decades ago, is a poem about America in conflict—between the democratic and communal promise that ignited its original spirit and the dark psychological and economic realities that have come to burden not only many of its own people, but many of the wider world. It is a poem that explores the hungers and unfulfilled needs of the past for freedom, and perhaps identity, that haunt a nation propelled into a moment of world power to become a focus of humanity's historical struggles.

Just saw your poems in Minneapolis magazine they are wonderful your images so clear and etched like Whitman write a lot write let the images pour we need these images they are a social communal vision... great prophetic visions of the people.
     - Meridel LeSueur

Jacobson has unusual gifts... He was the most brilliant student I have ever had... I am sure he will become one of the best poets in the country.
     - Thomas McGrath

Factories and Cities embodies the venom and beauty that survived the ravages of what Elizabeth Bishop once called "our worst century so far" and it does so with both venom and beauty to spare.
     - Floyce Alexander

     African Diplomacy: The UN Experience deals with some of the many issues, affecting Africa, which came before the United Nations in the immediate, post-independence period.  Of major importance were the establishment of the Economic Commission for Africa, and the revocation of the Mandate which conferred on South Africa responsibility for the administration of the Trusteeship Territory of South West Africa.

      The book also deals with some policy issues not strictly within the ambit of the United Nations, but which were of special international significance, such as the interminable controversy regarding Chinese representation in the United Nations (1950-1967), the Commonwealth initiative to end the conflict in Vietnam, and the complexities of multilateral diplomacy. The final chapter “Reflections on Some Contemporary Issues” discusses current issues of topical interest, including the effect of the Cold War on diplomatic practice, globalization, economic development, foreign aid, peacekeeping, and the failure of party politics in Africa.

     While the episodes dealt with in the book are not all in strict chronological order, they have been arranged to enable the flow of the narrative without departing unduly from the general chronology of the events. & n b s p ; & nbsp;         

     African Diplomacy: The UN Experience deals with some of the many issues, affecting Africa, which came before the United Nations in the immediate, post-independence period.  Of major importance were the establishment of the Economic Commission for Africa, and the revocation of the Mandate which conferred on South Africa responsibility for the administration of the Trusteeship Territory of South West Africa.

      The book also deals with some policy issues not strictly within the ambit of the United Nations, but which were of special international significance, such as the interminable controversy regarding Chinese representation in the United Nations (1950-1967), the Commonwealth initiative to end the conflict in Vietnam, and the complexities of multilateral diplomacy. The final chapter “Reflections on Some Contemporary Issues” discusses current issues of topical interest, including the effect of the Cold War on diplomatic practice, globalization, economic development, foreign aid, peacekeeping, and the failure of party politics in Africa.

     While the episodes dealt with in the book are not all in strict chronological order, they have been arranged to enable the flow of the narrative without departing unduly from the general chronology of the events. & n b s p ; & nbsp;         

“Saving Our Children” is a book that discusses the issue of gun control, with a focus on violent youth crime. The book begins with the history of the gun culture in America, and touches on various reforms that were made in the past. The book also includes statistics, incidents of school shootings, and causes that contribute to gun violence, such as violence in media, music, and video games. The book details major gun control laws, the Second Amendment debate, and Supreme Court decisions relating to gun control. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in this vital issue, which affects all Americans.

This book chronicles the life, death and survival of the fundamentally spiritual people of Liberia, Africa’s oldest Republic. Founded on Judeo Christian Principles by former Black American Slaves, Liberia has been raped militarily, economically, politically and socially for many years by corrupt civil leaders and warlords greedy for power and wealth at the expense of the people. Over 300,000 have lost their lives. In the end, Liberians benefited from an unprecedented 15,000 strong United Nations peace keeping force.

The author testifies about his struggles to survive in the war and how GOD miraculously delivered him from the cruel hand of death many times over. With its cross over appeal, this page-turner is a testament to the ability of the human spirit to transcend the barriers of life and to the truth that life is worth living. It presents a unique and balanced perspective about the reason for the conflict. Those who love great story telling, burning Christian testimonies or plain history, will find it intriguing, attention grabbing and spiritually uplifting.