My belief
I have been an atheist as long as I can remember. My parents took me to a Unitarian church when I was very little. Later, when we were...
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ARTHUR BACON
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Dec 31, 2014
FEMA and KATRINA
I cannot understand all the fuss about the government’s tepid response to Hurricane Katrina. To be perfectly honest, all this carping is...
Dec 31, 2014
It all Depends*
“Who feareth to suffer, suffereth already, because he feareth.” Montaigne *Depends. Brand name for adult male diapers. Although still to...
Dec 31, 2014
Why I Hate Christmas or How Santa Ruins Everything
I didn’t get any Christmas presents the year my parents got divorced. My mother was busy playing Handel in Heidelberg and my father was...
Dec 31, 2014
I HAD NO IDEA
We had a few graduate students over for dinner the other night and one of them said that “Catherine the Great was fucked to death by a...
Dec 31, 2014
I Don’t Cairn
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir When I was at the University of Denver in the late sixties; come...
Dec 31, 2014
Glen Beck’s: The Year 2039 in Review
(3 AM reading material for Elizabeth Warren at senate climate-change all-nighter) 2039 was an excellent year for America as the “Russian...
Dec 31, 2014
Thank God, We’re Free at Last
How I have longed for this day every day for eight years! Now, at last, I can sleep, work, read, write, make art, plant some lilacs,...
Dec 31, 2014
Ferguson Is Here.
To The Seattle Times Ferguson can happen anywhere, anytime. It tried to happen Wednesday morning on the #40 bus heading north from...
Dec 31, 2014
Adam Gopnik; Learning to (not) Draw (New Yorker, 27 June 2011)
About fifteen years ago a friend of mine and I had a huge argument about (retinal) drawing. One day I suggested the possibility that one...
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