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ABOUT AGING, Part 1

Posted on Mar 9, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 5, 2008

opening commens on senility (03/09/2008)

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old age, senility, health, personal history

ABOUT AGING: Part 3

Posted on Jun 16, 2008 | Last Updated Jul 23, 2008

My mom

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family, old age, health, personal history, senility, strokes, the brain

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

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

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

Rant on Our Times, With Reply

Posted on Jun 5, 2009 | Last Updated Jun 5, 2009

A dynamic of social evolution

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politics, Jesse Jackson, old times, liberals, conservatives, Spokane, Spokesman-Review, Idaho

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 BASICS

Posted on Aug 17, 2007 | Last Updated Mar 19, 2008

The 2nd in the The War for the Woods: defining the issues

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forest ecology, forest politics, clearcutting, wilderness, wildlife, water, virgin forests, old-growth forests, biochemicals, biodiversity, forest fires, salvage logging, sanitation logging

MAUNDERING, June 2009

Posted on Jun 17, 2009 | Last Updated Jun 19, 2009

personal thoughts and reminiscences

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humor, martial arts, movies, health, obesity, old age, fitness, smoking