Where you been, John?
Posted on Oct 5, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 19, 2008
my three month absence explained
writing, blogging, aging, Great Northern War, Stockholm, Helsinki
Med System (10/27/07)
Posted on Oct 26, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 12, 2008
cost of one medication
prescription drugs, the system, profiteering?
ANYBODY DIS BLACE NEM JORJ WASHEENTON? (12/17/07)
Posted on Dec 17, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 7, 2008
Some Founding Fathers: a perspective
democracy; American Revolution; religion and government; slavery; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; political correctness; deism
THE BOOK OF JOBY (12/09/07)
Posted on Dec 8, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 10, 2008
Book Review
modern fantasy, allegory, Tor Books
MAYA: An Illusion?
Posted on Jun 22, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 5, 2008
a conversation imagined
philosophy, cosmology, reality, spirituality
"Simple Gifts," Aaron Copland, and the Swedish connection
Posted on Jul 3, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 4, 2009
a deeper look at the origin of "Simple Gifts"
Appalachian Spring, "Simple Gifts," Aaron Copland, Swedish folk music, jukeboxes, and Scandinavian America
HEALTH REFORM AND THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT (Sept 21, 2009)
Posted on Sep 20, 2009 | Last Updated Jan 12, 2010
Thoughts on the subjects
health care reform, philosophy, government, steamships, Lake Superior, 1948, Superior Wisconsin, Sault Ste, Marie, merchant marine hospitals
Government, the Real World, and Politics
Posted on Oct 12, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 12, 2008
analysis and commentary, from a partly epistemological viewpoint
politics, real world, statistical analysis, modeling, labor analyses, modeling, analogs, the labor movement, merchant marine, ships' boiler rooms, seamen, Great Lakes, Great Depression, hobos
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.
(12/09/07) A QUOTE FROM XENOPHANES
Posted on Dec 9, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 7, 2008
wisdom from 6th century BC
philosophy, science, honesty