By Dave Hitt on Feb 14, 2011 in QH Podcasts | 4 Comments
A new Quick Hitts podcast, Remembering Ronald Reagan, is available. The left are completely wrong about his role in ending the cold war.  On the flip side, the right is also wrong about it.  You can get smartenized on the subject, as well as understand the historical context for the hero worship, in a mere 15 minutes. http://www.davehitt.com/podcasts/ Feel free to […]
By Dave Hitt on Feb 9, 2011 in Personal Adventures | 2 Comments
I’m now working as a pitchman, doing shows at Sam’s Clubs and BJs Clubs, demonstrating and selling this.  (Warning: the web site automatically starts playing sound. Not my design, folks.) There’s downtime between shows which I often spend wandering around the store. It’s cold here in the Northeast, so one of the more popular items […]
By Dave Hitt on Feb 1, 2011 in Bad Business, Writing | 13 Comments
You’ll appreciate this post more if you read this first. Publish America is a vanity publisher who takes their scam one step further than most by saddeling authors with outrageous contracts. The contracts have varied a bit over time, but often contain a clause that requires authors to buy a butt-load of their own books […]