Will's Year end Review: Professional

An interesting year, a productive year. However most of that output won't be seen until next year.

We busted our hump on World War 1990: Battle of the Three Seas and World War 1990: Nederlandse. For the first time we made use of beta readers. We published a short story in the Alternate naval history book, Those in Peril. A submission to the sequel was rejected. Bastards. Blooms came out in February.  The readership yawned, as expected. We failed to finish Pershing's War.  We put off the great 2543 project (again).

We got ourselves into the media this year. Via Cindy Sheehan, we participated in a debate with Iranian Press TV reporter Ali Musawi. Most of you people probably want to see Cindy Sheehan hanging from a lamppost, but we got to know her a bit, and she's actually a pretty nice person and doting grandma. It's ok to be wrong, you know. We were interviewed by Radio Hussar on issues like Trump and nationalism. We talked with the eminently reasonable Marcus Ruiz-Evans about Calexit.

Our friend Sarah Abed interviewed us for Inforos, which we quickly parlayed into a gig of our own, getting their attention with a review of HBO's Chernobyl, which they rejected, BTW. As the Imans say, the Jew is clever. We like our Inforos gig a lot, and churned out 20 pieces this year on politics and we promise we'll have that piece you just asked us about tomorrow, Maxim.Thank you, Russian Life.

Most of our social media forays on Twitter, Gab, etc proved to be a complete waste of time. We'll try again next year.

Will's Sedition: It's all on tape

Our interview with the gracious Marcus Ruiz-Evans about California Secession:

He calls me 'sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'*

*Call back joke.

Break me off a Piece of that Cali-state

CNBC tells us that plans for a California breakup or outright secession continue apace:

A proposed California secession measure has been cleared to begin gathering needed signatures to qualify for the ballot.  

A similar effort by the so-called Calexit organizers failed last year.  

At the same time, there's an initiative backed by billionaire Tim Draper to split California into three states that could make the Nov. 6 ballot.  

Yet another proposal known as "New California" seeks to carve out rural counties into the 51st state and is critical of the state's sanctuary policies

Here's the plan to breakup the state:

On the surface this breakup map makes sense, though we admit we know nothing about the state. Any California readers want to weigh in? You people know who you are.

Fifty states is a nice round number but there's nothing preventing the creation of more. Perhaps some of these states no longer make sense.

In our own New Jersey the state is really two entities, the north in NYC's orbit, the south in Philadelphia's.* Northern Virginia (NOVA) really has nothing in common with Richmond or Newport News. Western Massachusetts doesn't even exist as far as the rest of the People's Republic is concerned.

Of course we subscribe to the 'Texans and other real Americans' view of the United States, so maybe California secession is for the best. 

 *The dreaded 609 area code.

California on the Money

Alright Republic of California, or whatever you're calling yourself, now that we've talked about defense, lets get into the really interesting financial stuff.

1. What will you call your new currency? We suggest the Cali with a scripted 'C' as its' symbol.

2. What will back the C, gold? Oil reserves? Or will the C be backed by the full faith and credit of the Republic of California?

3. Will Sacramento free-float the C or peg it to the dollar?

4. Upon independence most Californians will hoard American Dollars. Will Sacramento accept USDs as payment.

5. Will California like Canada and Mexico, accept the USD?

6. Will the C have denominations of 1,5,10,20,50, 100?

7.Why not have a 1-C coin like the Limeys do with their Pound Sterling?

8. Whose going on the money?

9. We don't suppose you'd put John Fremont on the C10.

10. It's going to be Jerry Browne, isn't it? And Harvey Milk. And Stokley Carmichael.