Author's Preface

Author's Preface  

    I grew up playing golf at the exclusive Birmingham Country Club in upscale all-white Mountain Brook, Alabama, which later got nick-named The Tiny Kingdom. Mountain Brook lies over Red Mountain, just south and east of Birmingham. My father and his father were members of the Birmingham Country Club, and that's why I got to play golf there. After graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa, I became a member of the Country Club, because my father and his father were members. Within a few years, my views of most things were changing, and I resigned from the Country Club. As more time passed, my views of most things kept changing, and kept changing, and kept changing. I blame God for all of that, and I am glad it happened, even though the going never was easy and often it was very rough. I became what I suppose more than a few Mountain Brookies, especially the church goers and the capitalists, might call a heretic. Certainly, black sheep fits just as well. This book is the next installment in the Inquisition's evidence. Earlier installments can be found at archive.org. Go there and type Sloan Bashinsky into the search space and press Enter on your keyboard and see for yourself. All of those books, non-fiction, fiction, and stranger than fiction, are free reads, no ads, no soliciting.