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Med System (10/27/07)

Posted on Oct 26, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 12, 2008

cost of one medication

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prescription drugs, the system, profiteering?

CREATIVE WRITING 101, PART ONE

Posted on Oct 1, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 21, 2010

Reviews, Reviewers, and Writing Fiction

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reviews; critiques; truths; rules for writers; books on writing; Mitford; Karon; tell, don't show ; golden rule of writing; focus; story arc; data dumps; dialog ratio; norse sagas; ethnic character

Health Plan Axioms

Posted on Jul 18, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 18, 2009

Basic system considerations

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health insurance, Medicare, pulpwood, merchant marine, 1949, General Semantics, bureaucracies,

Economics as a System

THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
Posted on Aug 27, 2010 | Last Updated Sep 10, 2010

Reducing the amount of voodoo economics by making economics less dogmatic and more transparent, and exposing seriously destructive, or unethical, or even criminal activities.

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HEALTH CARE

Posted on Nov 11, 2008 | Last Updated Nov 11, 2008

Aspects of the issue

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National health care, political slogans, conventional wisdom, health insurance, national comparisons, cultural elements

WRITING 102 - Writing Science-Fiction and Fantasy

Some Basics
Posted on Aug 13, 2010 | Last Updated Aug 13, 2010

If you ignore everything else I say here, heed this: to develop the ability to write well, write. Write a LOT. Thinking about it isn't enough.

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writing, tips, authoring

Government, the Real World, and Politics: Part 2

Posted on Oct 14, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 29, 2008

Free Market Economics

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free market, market forces, economics, depressions, merchant marine, pork barrel, labor unions, Lake Carriers Association, hobos, railroad police, coal mining, Genghis Khan, history,

About Aging (Feb 2010)

Posted on Feb 25, 2010 | Last Updated Feb 25, 2010

My story so far

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Emphysema; Cognitive Function, memory. focus, reasoning, learning, emotions, objectivity

MERRRY CHRISTMAS

Posted on Dec 16, 2009 | Last Updated Dec 22, 2009

CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER

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family, friends, health, humor, ethnicity, Pacific Inland Northwest, Spokane, Pasco, Missoula, Scandinavian History

newsletter #3, Aug 12, 2009 (revised)

Posted on Aug 11, 2009 | Last Updated Sep 23, 2009

an update

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