Alternate Universes
Posted on Mar 23, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 5, 2008
Science Fiction, cosmology
cosmology, science fiction, ideas, the Higuchian Series
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
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
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
CREATIVE WRITING 101, PART ONE
Posted on Oct 1, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 21, 2010
Reviews, Reviewers, and Writing Fiction
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
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
LESSONS IN ECOLOGY (Aug 21, 2009):
Posted on Aug 21, 2009 | Last Updated Sep 23, 2009
"The Honey Bee Die-Off and the World at Large
bees, ecology, agriculture, paleo-ecology, evolution, history
Migrants, Morals, & Laws
Posted on Mar 4, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008
perspective of an old man
American history, politics, political philosophy
A Habitable Planet
Posted on Jul 27, 2007 | Last Updated Mar 19, 2008
The environmental movement is not new
ecology, history, wolves