| Name | Description | | Written |
| america0 |
why we are at war |
|
3/23/03 |
| america1 |
democracy versus the republic |
|
8/10/03 |
| america4 |
a rant about the plunder of natural resources |
|
6/29/01 |
| america5 |
don't confuse the past with the present |
|
6/18/01 |
| america6 |
why is America not a revolutionary country? |
|
11/26/99 |
| america7 |
elections can be depressing |
|
11/7/02 |
| america8 |
is the past behind us or not? |
|
4/7/03 |
| america9 |
GWB has depleted my freedom and serotonin |
|
9/25/03 |
| Big |
Don't be a fish in their pond |
 |
2/11/24 |
| Big Brother and Your Brain |
An essay about our modern, non-academic study of the human mind and how to influence it |
|
10/13/21 |
| bill_of_rights1 |
how little do we understand what these mean? |
|
11/30/99 |
| bill_of_rights2 |
tolerance and its limits |
|
11/30/99 |
| bill_of_rights3 |
freedom of speech for corporations? |
|
12/1/99 |
| bill_of_rights4 |
oh sweet freedom, how best to protect you? |
|
11/4/01 |
| Blackout |
I don't know what this (song) - or any of this - is. |
 |
1/26/21 |
| Blood Money |
A brief musing on how currency is supported |
|
3/21/22 |
| Born Wrong |
Another shard of pottery |
|
1/8/21 |
| The Brain |
The brain is an organ |
|
8/4/16 |
| Burning Rocks |
A draft of a poem, set to music 2/6/22 |
 |
12/15/21 |
| By What Right? |
What I was trying to write five days ago |
 |
6/29/22 |
| calendar1 |
a little idea to improve the way calendars work |
|
12/4/00 |
| capital1 |
a basic diatribe about our failure to use our wealth |
|
12/2/99 |
| On the Concentration of Wealth (2) |
Observing the absurdity of destructive wealth |
|
12/24/21 |
| The seeds of capital |
Agriculture and the collapse of human growth |
|
5/1/22 |
| capital2 |
a harsh indictment of the forces of capital |
|
12/2/99 |
| capital3 |
a piece on the consumer/advertising feedback loop |
|
12/2/99 |
| capital4 |
about the false promise of entrepreneurism |
|
7/26/00 |
| capital5 |
balancing wealth with other human needs |
|
5/6/00 |
| capital6 |
economic meddling in the former Soviet republics |
|
10/18/00 |
| On the Concentration of Personal Wealth (1) |
A partial answer to why there should be no billionaires |
|
11/24/21 |
| Corner Store |
my little local chain store concept |
|
6/25/04 |
| Counterfeit |
A song about death - the death of hope |
 |
5/5/21 |
| Critical Thinking |
We have a problem with this misunderstood, misused tool |
|
2/10/21 |
| Dancing Woods |
Un poème, une chanson, de Norvège et d'Ecosse: a thousand-year throwback, give or take a century or two |
|
9/30/21 |
| drugs |
they're bad, don't use them, unless... |
|
12/27/01 |
| family1 |
some words about the advantages of group living |
|
8/1/00 |
| The Mallard Fillmore Footnotes |
I investigate some suspect sourcing |
|
9/3/06 |
| On Fetishizing Firearms |
A brief discussion of mayhem and its proponents |
|
5/20/18 |
| Free Speech |
It's not enough to help them kick their addiction - stop abusing free speech |
 |
9/11/23 |
| Freedom |
A socialist manifesto in parts |
|
10/24/20 |
| freedom1 |
a rambling piece about party politics |
|
8/4/92 |
| freedom2 |
the minimal boundaries of personal freedom |
|
12/2/99 |
| freedom3 |
does freedom even exist? |
|
3/29/01 |
| gender1 |
a radical view of men and women I hold very dear |
|
8/1/00 |
| Generations |
Sometimes a smile in between |
|
3/1/24 |
| health |
random musings on the lifetime cost of health care |
|
1/30/07 |
| his freedom |
can't stop the ringing in your ears |
 |
2/18/23 |
| human1 |
human nature: part one |
|
8/18/01 |
| human2 |
human nature: part two |
|
8/18/01 |
| human3 |
human nature: part three |
|
8/18/01 |
| hunger2 |
half a loaf is better... |
|
4/24/03 |
| icono2 |
mainstream culture vs. outcast ideas |
|
4/14/02 |
| idiots3 |
intelligent design? |
|
12/21/05 |
| Privilege? |
But life is not a zero sum game |
|
1/15/24 |
| israel |
give the Jews a chunk of Texas! |
|
7/16/02 |
| Justice (or Just Us) |
We only want to be free |
|
2/3/24 |
| Juvenilia |
Stylistic ramblings in pottery land |
|
10/1/14 |
| It Goes Like This |
And if it does, they'll listen |
 |
11/19/22 |
| Logix |
Common sense is even worse |
|
7/8/21 |
| The Luxury of History |
A bit more perspective |
|
9/4/23 |
| The Luxury of History (Essay) |
A lot of perspective |
|
9/3/23 |
| machines |
an essay about the devices we create |
|
10/17/00 |
| Magpies |
We understand corruption as little as we do justice |
|
12/10/21 |
| massacre |
metal detectors in schools??? |
|
4/26/99 |
| money1 |
I guess we all need some $ to get by! |
|
7/7/00 |
| Name and Number |
Too brazen to remember how to lie. |
 |
8/25/22 |
| needs1 |
the needs a human culture must meet |
|
11/26/99 |
| needs2 |
the needs of a human being |
|
12/2/99 |
| New Ideas |
Open up my mind with your brave and wonderful new ideas |
|
8/14/22 |
| news1 |
a little 'current events' reality check |
|
11/4/01 |
| normal people |
A song about two of you - or us |
|
1/13/22 |
| Northern Eyes |
a song about war |
|
7/9/97 |
| oilwar1 |
the first 'made for TV' war provokes my dissent |
|
2/6/91 |
| oilwar2 |
dissent is more frustrating when it is in the majority |
|
3/19/03 |
| Ordinary Song |
About some ordinary people |
 |
8/3/23 |
| peace |
...I'm tired of writing about war |
|
1/8/04 |
| peace1 |
give it a chance |
|
10/22/01 |
| peace2 |
I guess this qualifies as sarcasm |
|
12/26/02 |
| Pilgrimage |
A poem in sandals |
|
7/7/21 |
| polisci1 |
a vague platform for a non-existent political party |
|
11/26/99 |
| polisci10 |
foreign aid distribution formula |
|
10/30/02 |
| polisci11 |
another attempt at a party platform for the left |
|
11/7/02 |
| polisci12 |
why liberal talk radio won't work |
|
3/19/03 |
| polisci13 |
a true conservative political platform |
|
3/24/03 |
| polisci14 |
revolution and counter-revolution |
|
4/8/03 |
| polisci16 |
if I were elected president... |
|
8/03/03 |
| polisci17 |
a peculiar proposition: jump ship to save it! |
|
10/14/03 |
| polisci2 |
an essay on aggression among humans |
|
4/19/99 |
| polisci21 |
why I don't want to live forever |
|
1/9/06 |
| polisci22 |
the asymmetry of symmetrical policy assumptions |
|
1/31/07 |
| The Cost of Violence |
Freedom is the first thing we lose. |
|
5/18/21 |
| Gender-free |
The privilege of life in the power corner |
|
5/23/21 |
| polisci3 |
some thoughts about government |
|
(unknown) |
| Different Worldviews |
The fundamentals of conservatism versus those of liberalism |
|
8/14/22 |
| polisci4 |
some blueprints for my 'utopia,' maybe |
|
8/18/00 |
| polisci5 |
exporting more than poverty |
|
5/16/01 |
| polisci6 |
what is 'self government?' |
|
5/4/01 |
| polisci7 |
the useless so-called 'dismal science' |
|
6/29/01 |
| polisci8 |
power versus leadership |
|
4/30/02 |
| polisci9 |
a couple of my dumb bright ideas |
|
11/7/02 |
| poverty1 |
the view from the bottom? |
|
11/26/99 |
| privacy1 |
just a few simple words |
|
12/2/99 |
| Private Plains Ape |
A song about how we survive and function in groups |
|
2/10/21 |
| Private Plains Ape - version one point one |
A six-page expurgation about learning and coercive socialization |
|
2/9/21 |
| prometheus |
a harsh and tragic outburst of ego |
|
1/21/03 |
| Propaganda v. Truth |
The advantages of dishonesty in swaying minds |
|
12/22/21 |
| Psycho Metric |
ego love shallow trash |
|
5/16/22 |
| Revolution |
If you want a revolution... |
|
7/15/22 |
| Revolution (one) |
a few riffs on a phrase or two from poverty1 |
|
11/26/99 |
| Robots and Automation |
automation reintroduces the dismal science |
|
3/23/04 |
| Science Fiction |
More or less |
|
8/1/23 |
| Shopworn |
Damaged goods still sold as new |
|
7/11/21 |
| Silent Flowers |
Another oldie, a sad classic by now |
|
7/2/21 |
| Slavery Rag |
Friday, June Twenty-Fourth, Twenty Twenty-Two |
|
6/24/22 |
| Some of Us |
Drawing outside the lines, drumming outside time |
|
10/1/23 |
| Stop Doing Useless Jobs |
Just stop |
 |
4/13/24 |
| Sunset Valley Icicles |
Orion hunts higher and bold |
 |
11/4/23 |
| Tank Treads |
The destruction we wreak for no reason breaks my heart |
|
11/1/21 |
| terror1 |
a day that will echo for a long, long time |
|
9/11/01 |
| testing0 |
testing out of testing... |
|
3/26/02 |
| The Cauldron |
No one to blame but the criminal for his crimes |
|
8/27/23 |
| The Mess You're In |
This is not what you had planned |
|
11/22/22 |
| time0 |
just a man of my times... |
|
1/02/02 |
| (How) To Think |
You don't know |
|
9/8/23 |
| Tourists of Terror |
Basic vanilla in crisis: a poetry |
|
1/8/21 |
| Traitor |
By your signs it is true, we know you |
|
8/13/23 |
| Trump as a Democrat? |
If Trump had won the Presidency as a Democrat |
|
7/11/17 |
| unbelief |
a little poem about the sentimentalisation of war |
|
1/9/00 |
| union |
the state of employee organization today |
|
2/2/07 |
| Utopia |
how to really engineer a perfect society |
|
6/13/04 |
| Stupid Global Village |
A song about perspective from 'Ruins' |
 |
9/23/04 |
| vocab1 |
required vocabulary words for todays graduate |
|
11/26/99 |
| vote-2002-11-05 |
my get out and vote poster |
|
11/4/02 |
| voting1 |
why vote? here's a reason or two! |
|
8/27/00 |
| war |
I could stop writing these, yes, I would like that... |
|
10/8/01 |
| war1 |
who would Jesus kill? |
|
4/8/03 |
| war2 |
support the troops? |
|
4/17/03 |
| war4 |
about asymmetries in war |
|
8/14/06 |
| war-2003-3-19 |
this war is insane, with rebuttal |
|
3/19/03 |
| war-2003-3-20 |
patriotism is the last refuge |
|
3/20/03 |
| war-2003-3-21 |
fight the real terrorists |
|
3/21/03 |
| war-2003-3-22 |
ignore the war |
|
3/22/03 |
| war-2003-4-03 |
high crimes and misdemeanors |
|
4/3/03 |
| war-2003-4-13 |
a new motto for America? |
|
4/13/03 |
| we_have_won |
a poem about war and glory |
|
(unknown) |
| wealth1 |
what is wealth for? |
|
11/26/99 |
| wealth2 |
a diatribe about pop music, politics, and money |
|
1992 |
| wealth3 |
what are we working harder for? |
|
Aug. 2001 |
| wealth4 |
the beginning of a really bad piece on economics |
|
3/19/03 |
| wealth5 |
better ways to spend the cash, George |
|
5/16/03 |
Random |
Pick a thought at random, or go to the "index index" |
|
Indexed |
| Support | This is where I shamelessly solicit your contribution to the cause! |
| Dedicate | A list of past dedications |
| Reading | Some recommended reading |
