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2018-03-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

This Week in Books, March 4, 2018

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Posted by swksvolFF 2018-03-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 what within sight could be used to apply a tourniquet in a pinch

Leather belt, not so much. Cloth/canvas/web belt, Much better. Shoulder strap from a purse, pretty good. Seatbelts, close to perfect.

Tampons plug bullet entry wounds. Sanitary pads are great compression bandages when tied on to a limb with socks. A wet tshirt knotted on the far side is great for keeping debris out of torso burns.

Stop the leaking life force now, cure infection after.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-04 02:22|| 2018-03-04 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I’ve downloaded the Kindle sample for later perusal — swksvolFF always makes his subjects sound so interesting. :-)

Incidentally, two items of readerly interest:

1) Sharyl Attkisson’s The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote is on sale in Kindle form for $2.99 today. It’s been on my very long wish list for awhile, so I picked up a copy.

2) Apparently it’s Read An Ebook Week (3/4-3/10), and Smashwords wanted me to know all about their special offers. See here. Fred Pruitt and badanov (in his secret identity as Chris Covert) are published there. Others among us are also published authors — Sgt. Mom comes to mind —who might also be involved. If you are, please pipe up so we can check out your work.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-04 12:58|| 2018-03-04 12:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Re#1 - Skidmark, your advice reminds me of when I was in Navy OCS in 1970. We were taking a first aid course taught by a corpsman. He said when he was in Viet Nam, he went joyriding with some friend. They got ambushed, and one of the the guys ended up with a sucking chest wound. He didn't have his med kit, so they packed the wound with mud. We all gasped in horror -"but, but what about INFECTION??" His explanation was that antibiotics could treat the infection - IF the guy lived long enough to get to the hospital.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-03-04 13:42|| 2018-03-04 13:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Hi, TW - just got the message; my earlier books are on Smashwords as ebooks, and on Amazon Kindle, but the later are on Draft2Digital and provided to other vendors.
(Just found D2D easier to format and publish - their website is not so clunky.)

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2018-03-04 15:44|| 2018-03-04 15:44|| Front Page Top

#5 It’s not just Smashwords doing it, Sgt. Mom, but they’re the ones who sent me an email about it. My apologies for being unclear.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-04 17:18|| 2018-03-04 17:18|| Front Page Top

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