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Alternate Universes

Posted on Mar 23, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 5, 2008

Science Fiction, cosmology

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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

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

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,

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

Maundering of an octogenarian

Posted on Jan 26, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008

warning, old man thinking

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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

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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

ANYBODY DIS BLACE NEM JORJ WASHEENTON? (12/17/07)

Posted on Dec 17, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 7, 2008

Some Founding Fathers: a perspective

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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

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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

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American history, politics, political philosophy

A Habitable Planet

Posted on Jul 27, 2007 | Last Updated Mar 19, 2008

The environmental movement is not new

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ecology, history, wolves