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
THE REZ, PALESTINE, AND...WHATEVER BECAME OF THE NEANDERTHALS? (Feb 2010)
Posted on Feb 25, 2010 | Last Updated Jun 9, 2010
a discussion of colonialism in history
Indian treaties, Zionism, Manifest Destiny, Trail of Tears, Sand Creek Massacre, Wounded Knee, end-times, eschatology, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Will of God
Blogsite Newsletter June 2009
Posted on Jun 1, 2009 | Last Updated Jun 1, 2009
overdue newsletter
MisCon, publishing, agents, old age, The Signature of God, The Second Coming, Lois McMasters Bujold, Paatricia Briggs, Mercedes Thompson
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
BOOK FLOGGING
Posted on Feb 27, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008
promoting and selling books
writing, promoting and selling books, personal philosophy
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
March 2012 Newsletter of John Dalmas
Moved Again!
Posted on Mar 26, 2012 | Last Updated Mar 26, 2012
John's March 2012 newsletter with talk about aging and an introduction to Armfelt.
MAUNDERING, June 2009
Posted on Jun 17, 2009 | Last Updated Jun 19, 2009
personal thoughts and reminiscences
humor, martial arts, movies, health, obesity, old age, fitness, smoking
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
forest history, forest policy, American history