A bit of set and setting ... The Book of the Is began in September 2001 and was completed in December 2004; President Bush had just been reelected to a second term and the war on terror was three years old. It has not been updated; for example, there's no President Obama added. The author, Bryan W. Brickner, writes about Christianity, Constitutions and Cannabinoids; these topics are incorporated into The Book of the Is and frame the political theory. Brickner authored The Promise Keepers: Politics and Promises (1999), Article the first of The Bill of Rights (2006), and co-authored The Cannabis Papers: A citizen's guide to cannabinoids (2011). In 2013, he also published a novella, thereafter - (Or, The crows of Wicker Park); the novella completes the political fiction trilogy that includes the novels hereafter (2006) and Parrot in the Atrium (2011). Articles, updates and books are available on the Bryan William Brickner blog. Bryan is from Illinois and currently lives in Michigan.