Two Friday morning links: Rephah Berg suggests that "new professional writers" (discussed below) should visit The Burry Man Writers Center, where they will learn much about the field and its scamming. Click on "The Business of Writing" and read everything there.
And I suggest that folks interested in the Death Penalty reversal in Illinois read this article in this morning's New York Times. I really think that most of those who are upset about the actions of the outgoing governor are saying, in effect, "No! Don't tell us the system is broken. We don't want to hear that. We want to believe it works the way we like." But the genie's out of the bottle on this one. If there's going to be a Death Penalty in this country in five years, the process will take a lot of fixing.