People, Politics, Plots, Paradigms -- and Stories
Posted on Jul 25, 2007 | Last Updated Nov 3, 2008
Metaphor and Reality
Cosmology, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Writing
THE BASICS
Posted on Aug 17, 2007 | Last Updated Mar 19, 2008
The 2nd in the The War for the Woods: defining the issues
forest ecology, forest politics, clearcutting, wilderness, wildlife, water, virgin forests, old-growth forests, biochemicals, biodiversity, forest fires, salvage logging, sanitation logging
THE REZ, PALESTINE, AND...WHATEVER BECAME OF THE NEANDERTHALS? (Feb 2010)
Posted on Feb 25, 2010 | Last Updated Jun 9, 2010
a discussion of colonialism in history
Indian treaties, Zionism, Manifest Destiny, Trail of Tears, Sand Creek Massacre, Wounded Knee, end-times, eschatology, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Will of God
Rant on Our Times, With Reply
Posted on Jun 5, 2009 | Last Updated Jun 5, 2009
A dynamic of social evolution
politics, Jesse Jackson, old times, liberals, conservatives, Spokane, Spokesman-Review, Idaho
To Michelle Obama (02/21/08)
Posted on Feb 21, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008
open letter
politics, government, Obama, McCain, Kosovo
The JÄRNHANN Saga
Posted on Sep 2, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 12, 2008
Skaldic poetry from an Apocalyptic Future
Neoviking fun in Swedish and translation
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Posted on Oct 31, 2008 | Last Updated Nov 3, 2008
a personality study of a conflicted genius
J.C. Smuts, psychology, personality study, history, South Africa, British Empire, Boer War, Louis Botha, cultural study, cosmology
Maundering of an octogenarian
Posted on Jan 26, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008
warning, old man thinking
geriatrics, history, winter, snowshoeing, culture, brain, science fiction conventions, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, language, Swedish