Welcome to the site of Edward Harshman, who survived a bad
marriage and has a creative streak.
(Also a right-wing tendency and a history of having
undergone major stress, including a jail term in early
2019.)
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After my having to surrender all
rights of access to and management of my children,
expect me to be somewhat bitter about feminism.
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Yes, there is a brightwriter
channel
on YouTube.
Some family.
Some sales attempts for movies.
Some (conservative and libertarian) politics.
Here is the link.
The channel is not very well laid out, but I am
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fighting for Christian values |
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The tyrants can't hide forever. |

Legendary politician and presidential candidate Ron
Paul with me and my wife and children before my
marriage fell apart |

Post-Armageddon
(from the cover of my novel) |
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A few words about DRM:
DRM stands for
Digital Rights Management and refers to a protocol
by which electronic downloads of videos, music,
and e-books are crippled so that they can be used
only on the device to which they are downloaded.
My attitude about DRM is that it is a sign of
distrust of the customers and it infuriates honest
customers who need to transfer their downloads
onto a new device when their old one breaks down,
or who want to read e-books or watch movies or
listen to music on more than one device.
When Napster, the online sharing website, became
popular, sales of movies went up not down. So much
for DRM's protection of intellectual property
royalties. If two people, each unwilling to pay
full price for something, buy it together then
make two copies one for each of them, then DRM
would have cost the producer a sale. Also, the
existence of a pirated copy of something may
motivate someone who sees or hears it to buy an
honest copy.
I have these materials available not only for
personal gain, but also because I consider them
important as representations of my political
beliefs. I don't stomp around waving signs and
making a nuisance of myself. I don't pester people
for money and, having taken it, become singularly
vague about how it is to be spent. I merely tell
my story to those who are willing to listen,
ideally including
you.
All of my electronic intellectual property is
available without DRM encumbrances. The only copy
protection is your conscience. I respect you;
please reciprocate.
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Yes, I am bright and I write.
Look for my logic-puzzle book,
here
in paperback and here
in no-DRM Kindle.
Things aren't always as they seem.
The situation appears completely normal.
Then with only three hints, you have to figure out
what and why.
A pickpocket walks into a police station,
his hand in the angry victim's pocket.
A rich man gives a penny to a charity volunteer
and gets enthusiastic thanks.
A man escapes over the prison wall and looks for law
enforcement.
More examples are here.
Some old, some new, some science-based, some
with practical value.
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“Daddy, tell us a story
about a dog rainbow.”
Another night, it might have
been a fish rainbow, a monster rainbow, or even a
bad rainbow.
These stories, about rainbows and fairies and
witches and ghosts and other things, were the few
that Edward remembers from the days when his
children were small and appreciated the magic of
fairyland and the lively imagination of their
father. Most of the stories that he told then,
including those of Cartoonland and of the Walking
Heads, were told once and are gone forever. But
all of the Rainbow Stories have survived.
No publisher will accept this anthology. The
vocabulary is for adults and older children, and
the concepts are for young children.
But perhaps the pleasure that Edward’s children
felt can be felt by other people young at heart.
There is, however, a serious message. The Fairy of
Good Vision, who appears in many of the Rainbow
Stories, bases her behavior and even her color on
the work of rebel eye doctor William H. Bates,
teaching in “The Happy Rainbow” a visual exercise
that helps prevent young children from acquiring
the need for eyeglasses.
Take a trip to Fairyland. It’s a lovely place.
Buy the book here
in paperback or here
in no-DRM Kindle form. Or for more information,
look here.
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The media have a liberal bias.
Here's why it exists.
The rational reasons of the media
(entertainment and news) executives: maximize
profit.
The rational reasons that do not
maximize media profit.
The irrational reasons that
afflict media executives.
For more information, look here.
Watch a preview on YouTube here.
Watch the full 44½-minute
presentation on YouTube here.
(Sorry, the full-length YouTube video is now
Private.)
Watch the video on Amazon Video Direct here.
Or buy the DVD here.
Bonus: if you buy the DVD, then you also get the
presentation in PowerPoint form and as an e-book.
Watch the DVD to learn how.
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Applying for Social Security
Disability...
and you were asked to get a medical exam for
that purpose?
Don't forget to watch the explanation on how to make
the most of the medical exam you are sent to.
For further information, look here.
Watch the movie trailer on YouTube here.
Or buy the DVD here.
Or watch the video on Amazon Video Direct here. |
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Hate deceptive advertising?
So do I.
I have a half-hour educational movie on how to avoid
being taken in by manipulative advertising.
Further information is here.
Watch the movie trailer on YouTube here.
Or buy the DVD here.
Or watch it on Amazon Video Direct here.
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Upset with fast-talking politicians
who hold public hearings, trying to bamboozle
you?
Learn how to fight back. A summary page is here.
Watch the movie on YouTube here.
Or watch it on Amazon Video Direct here.
(Different image, but same content.)
Or buy the green-cover (shown) DVD here.
The white-cover edition has closed captions and is here.
Please note: I
have left the full-length version available for
free viewing on YouTube, without requiring
payment, to assist the fight for political
freedom. But if you want to help pay me for my
effort, please watch the video on Amazon Video
Direct or buy a DVD.
Bonus with the green-cover DVD:
you get the presentation in PowerPoint form on the
DVD if you put the disk in a computer's DVD drive.
(But this DVD does not have closed captions.) You
also get the Barack Obama Tax and Spend ringtone
with this DVD; listen to it here.
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Puzzled by what women want
in a relationship?
You are not alone.
Here is my contribution to this very old problem.
Get more information here.
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A medical mystery
Harry Dreyfus just got
promoted to medical director of a rehabilitation
hospital after his co-workers got convicted of
insurance fraud.
He replaces them with a new team and soon
discovers that there is a murderer on the loose.
Is it a spouse of a recently imprisoned former
colleague? Someone he had just hired? One of the
evasive young men who had started hanging out in
the corridors? Someone else?
This mystery novel not only has a medical
setting, but also relies on medical principles
and knowledge for the solution to the killings.
Some alternative and complementary medicine is
introduced too. Expect to learn several
health-care facts while you read.
Join Dr. Dreyfus as he fights hospital and other
pressures and tries to identify the killer, or
killers. Will he succeed? Will he survive?
This novel introduces two characters, Bruno
Petroso and Randolph Sabin, who later appear in
another novel, The Seven-Point Star.
Buy the novel here
in paperback or here
in no-DRM Kindle form. Or for more
information, look here.
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Take a fictional setting, medical knowledge,
and a fury with
modern organized medicine, and what do you get? An
action-adventure science-fiction novel about a
brilliant but thoroughly disgruntled physician who
hates the system—and who knows how to fight back.
Buy the novel here
in paperback or here
in no-DRM Kindle form. Or for more information,
look here.
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The dark world
of the urban poor and disabled
No commercial publisher will
accept these two stories by Edward Harshman.
Llata Ecalpon is too long for a short story
and too short for a novel. It describes a senior
college student’s adventure in a mythical blue-
collar town in which concrete thinking reigns
supreme and college education is debunked.
The Unsolved Problem is commercially
worthless partially because the tone of the text
differs from its content. In the world of the
urban destitute, the land of limited opportunity
and of despair and death, two brothers, both
mentally ill and homeless, rescue a paraplegic
woman who is giving birth and later encounter the
woman at a church. They start a foundation to help
the unfortunate, converting hopelessness and
depression to autonomy and confidence; but they
later encounter an unexpected problem that they
are powerless to solve.
Buy the book here
in paperback or here
in no-DRM Kindle form. Or for more information,
look here.
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The knowledge missing from women's
rehabilitation from severe trauma or
disability.
Written in 1995 during my
convalescence from a spinal-cord injury that
damaged my hand coordination (temporarily, but I
didn't know that then), this was a personal
therapeutic exercise after the destruction of my
first marriage and part of my spinal cord. But a
residency in PM&R not only gave me no reason
to revise it, but also ignored the obvious
problem completely.
This book turned out to not only be a
therapeutic exercise for me, but also be of
genuine value for its intended audience. Look here for further
information about it.
Buy the book in paper form here
or in no-DRM Kindle download form here.
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Christian Charity
includes helping the hated.
(It also includes
trying to prevent
awful incidents that damage children.)
I am a Christian
and insist on showing compassion to the
unfortunate, even those who are despised. A
survivor of a jail term myself, I seek to instruct
the recently released ex-prisoner, who wants to
obey the law and avoid entanglements with
children, how to do so without becoming cut off
from all hope of intimacy.
Discussed in the book are the social pressures
against men, possible mechanisms by which someone
became destructively interested in children and
how to dismantle those mechanisms, and reasons to
distrust conventional therapy that in turn offers
no hope of cure.
Buy the book in paper form here,
buy it as a no-DRM Kindle download here,
or get further information here.
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My ex-wife wrote a very good book about
buildings and their architectural details. Feel free
to buy a copy or two, or more than two. Here
is the link.
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If you attend a political meeting, bring some
flyers along—to tape to trash cans. Download my sample here, and feel free to
edit it as you wish.
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No design professionals were used for this website.
(But I'm sure you've already figured that out by now.)
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