HEALTH CARE
Posted on Nov 11, 2008 | Last Updated Nov 11, 2008
Aspects of the issue
National health care, political slogans, conventional wisdom, health insurance, national comparisons, cultural elements
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
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
(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
Med System (10/27/07)
Posted on Oct 26, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 12, 2008
cost of one medication
prescription drugs, the system, profiteering?
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
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