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HEALTH REFORM AND THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT (Sept 21, 2009)

Posted on Sep 20, 2009 | Last Updated Jan 12, 2010

Thoughts on the subjects

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health care reform, philosophy, government, steamships, Lake Superior, 1948, Superior Wisconsin, Sault Ste, Marie, merchant marine hospitals

NEWSLETTER, June 8, 2011

Posted on Jun 10, 2011 | Last Updated Jun 10, 2011

John's June, 2011 Newsletter about aging, Miscon 25 and other thoughts.

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old age; assisted living; science fiction; philosophy; friendship; personal history; new paradigm Carol Berg (author); James K. Burk (author); Shawn Olson (webmaster); Robert Lester Lovely; MisCon 201

HOW WE GOT WHERE WE ARE

Posted on Aug 20, 2007 | Last Updated Mar 19, 2008

The Third in The War for the Woods: a Trip Through Time

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forest history, forest policy, American history

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

Posted on Oct 12, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 12, 2008

analysis and commentary, from a partly epistemological viewpoint

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politics, real world, statistical analysis, modeling, labor analyses, modeling, analogs, the labor movement, merchant marine, ships' boiler rooms, seamen, Great Lakes, Great Depression, hobos

The JÄRNHANN Saga

Posted on Sep 2, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 12, 2008

Skaldic poetry from an Apocalyptic Future

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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

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J.C. Smuts, psychology, personality study, history, South Africa, British Empire, Boer War, Louis Botha, cultural study, cosmology

A Lesser(?) Soliloquy

(Observations on Aging)
Posted on Dec 3, 2010 | Last Updated Dec 3, 2010

An essay by John Dalmas discussing the aging process. Written on October 24, 2010.

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People, Politics, Plots, Paradigms -- and Stories

Posted on Jul 25, 2007 | Last Updated Nov 3, 2008

Metaphor and Reality

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Cosmology, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Writing

IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND, by Michael Flynn

Posted on Aug 10, 2009 | Last Updated Aug 10, 2009

Book Review

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Michaeel Flynn, Babbage, history, philosophy, personal history