- Blog
- 03/01/2021: No Longer A Democracy; Why and how we’re losing to a greedy few
- 02/26/2021: Freedoms are Not Won Through Violence; a reposting
- 02/11/2021: What is Real; conflicting “realities”
- 01/29/2021: Enmity isn’t Working; a short piece reminding us to remain civil
- 01/18/2021: Democracy Redefined; A government in service to its population
- 01/12/2021: Land of the Credulous; Trump wasn’t our only deceiver
- 01/07/2021: The Pandemic; Earth’s natural reaction to human overreach
- 12/24/2020: Defense Spending Veto; at last POTUS and I agree
- 12/16/2020: “Greatness”; the alternative is equality and survival
- 12/10/2020: “Equality” in the World; are we REALLY promoting democracy?
- 12/06/2020: Buying Votes; to save democracy, we need to outspend the PACs??
- 11/29/2020: What Trump Support is All About: White Privilege!!
- 11/26/2020: Follow the Money; What matters is what we do with money
- 11/24/2020: Jim Stewart; and an even bigger problem
- 11/23/2020: Why Justice isn’t Just … sorry, I couldn’t wait until tomorrow
- 11/23/2020: The U.S.: Ruling by Fear, Intimidation and Violence
- Ecology
- “Greatness”; the alternative is equality and survival.
- Making it to the 4th Second; says it better than ever I could
- A Short quote from Pope Francis about our planet
- Limited View; a brief comment on the balance of nature and life on Earth
- The Fight against Climate Change; a longer video with persuasive facts
- Review: Populorum Progressio of 3/26/1967; 50 years later we still need birth control
- Politics
- Why Didn’t WWI End All Wars?; a fairly in-depth analysis with some sources cited.
- Cuba; free trade may better serve the Cuban people — and us.
- Future Economics and Politics; what’s coming in the next 40 years
- All Lives Matter; racism makes us immune to seeing our disrespect of other cultures
- It’s Been Going On All Along; our system runs on racism and always has
- The Fourth of July; reaching toward equality
- The Need for Change; the possibility of worldwide prosperity
- All Men (and Women) Are Created Equal; ways the US falls short of this ideal
- Respect; why don’t we respect other cultures?
- Corporate Capitalism; an unbalanced, unfair system
- What I Believe; a short summary of a few opinions
- Delusions of Grandeur; our distorted self-image
- The Bigger Picture; where we’ve been, where we’re going
- Pete Buttigieg: Can he reunite the United States?
- Trump’s Conversation With Zelensky — and a solution
- My comments on Trump’s Conversation With Zelensky
- There are Worse Things Than Big Government
- Free the U.S. Colonies; an economic windfall for the average taxpayer
- American Values; what we really believe
- Ownership Rights; something’s got to change
- The Fruits of World Domination; what “greatness” gets us
- The Right to Bear Arms; my take on the Second Amendment
- Freedoms Are Not Won Through Violence; a minority opinion
- Review: Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism; the product of a Libertarian think tank
- Christian Politics; mixing religion and politics
- The Upcoming 2016 Presidential Election; my look at the candidates
- The Trump Presidency
- 170700 Trusting Trump; the perils of narcissistic leadership
- 170700 Draining the Swamp; It seems to be muddier than ever
- 180100 Trump Revisited (again)
- 180327 The Worst Decision; Jimmy Carter’s opinion reviewed
- Christianity
- A wiser, more understanding, more inclusive, more compassionate God
- Religions Surrounding Me; ways they change minds and influence choices
- The Gift of Peace on Earth; the link between religion and war
- Understanding God; the down side of religious belief
- Gods of our Imaginations; where most gods come from
- Reality versus Religion; my take on Christianity’s flaws
- A Larger Us; presenting an alternative view of “us”
- Pope Francis; a Franciscan in the shoes of the fisherman
- Review: Origin by Design; hack science debunked
- Short Review: The Holy Bible; an old book; a new view
- A Letter to the Creationists; why I think you might be mistaken
- An Unapologetic Response to Apologetics
- Review: Populorum Progressio of 3/26/1967; 50 years later
- Review: Bishop John Shelby Spong, a Christian Reformer
- Review: What Can the Bible Teach Us?; a small, free JW booklet
- Physics
- Time, Space, Halton Arp and the Lynx Supercluster; even better cosmology
- Arp’s Second Question; Why Cosmologists resist dissenting evidence
- Space, Time, and Energy; an upgrade to my cosmological theories
- A Window to the Past; a way to explore the universe
- Unbelievable Physics, My thoughts on cosmology
- Review: The Theory of Everything, Stephen Hawking
- Review: Source Field Investigations; Irresponsible rumors debunked
- Blog post: Studying the Distant Universe ….
- Psychology
- Arp’s Second Question; Why Cosmologists resist dissenting evidence
- Religions Surrounding Me; ways they change minds and influence choices
- The Short Circuit; why Maslow’s hierarchy of needs doesn’t work
- The Human Mind; looking at different ways to think
- Review: The Fixation of Belief, inhibitions to logical thought
- A Problem with How We Think; one key to dogmatism and war
- Pure Mathematics
- Primes and Bracelets; Classifying Prime Numbers; Prime frequency
- Types of Prime Numbers; bracelets separate primes into 4 groups
- Review: An Imaginary Tale; Square Root(-1); Irrational numbers
- Short Stories, Poems
- The Last Person from Earth; a science fiction story of love and survival
- Self-Portrait of a Fourteen-Year-Old; a poem about youthful angst
- The Other Dance; a poem written after my second divorce
- A Christmas Poem; dedicated to my mother who made one every year
- Book Reviews
- A Caution to Readers
- Short Review: The Holy Bible and its legacy
- Review: An Imaginary Tale; Why irrational numbers are called irrational
- Review: Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism; Irrational science debunked
- Review: Origin by Design; Irrational science debunked
- Review: Source Field Investigations; Irresponsible rumors debunked
- Review: The Theory of Everything; my take on Hawking’s ideas
- Review: Populorum Progressio of 3/26/1967; after 50 years
- Review: Populorum Progressio of 3/26/1967; Sec 62-63
- Review: The Dream of Jesus by Michael Morwood
- Review: The Politics of Jesūs by Miguel de la Torre
- Review: Bishop John Shelby Spong, a Christian reformer
- Review: The Fixation of Belief, inhibitions to logical thought
- Review: What Can the Bible Teach Us?; a small, free JW booklet
- Books
- Imagine a Peaceful World (full book)
- A Personal Journey (small chapters); personal stories; personal truths; universal truths
- American Values; what we really believe
- Truth Seekers
- The Uses of Good and Evil
- Colonizing the United States
- Corporate Capitalism; an unbalanced, unfair system
- Conscience and Compromise
- Dad and I, a biography of sorts
- Gaia, Earth is alive and has a fever
- Heroes and Patriots, a look at the underlying realities of war
- Gods of our Imaginations
- Well, I’ll Be Damned, an ironic look into the future
- A Problem with How We Think; one key to dogmatism and war
- Recommended other sites
- Jim Stewart’s Historical Tonic for White Folk
- Homeboy Industries Talk, Gregory Boyle; stand with the outcasts
- Baghdad Burning by Riverbend, an intelligent, articulate Iraqi woman who tells us what it was like to be invaded and occupied by the United States of America.
- War is a Racket, a short book by Marine Corps Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, who won 2 Congressional Medals of Honor and fought for vet rights after World War I
- Dying to Win, by Dr. Robert Pape, a U. of Chicago sociologist who studied suicide terrorism exhaustively and found almost all suicide terrorism to be motivated by invasion and occupation rather than religion.
- April Glaspie’s interview with Saddam Hussein a week before they invaded Kuwait, where she tells him we’re neutral in his conflict with Kuwait and, backed by our President and Secretary of State
- Visual Capitalist; a site showing where our troops are and what we’re spending on “defense” [colonial holdings and superpower perquisites] relative to our allies and the rest of the world.
- PhDing During A Global Pandemic; part of my world view; SAYAS BLOG from South Africa
- Populorum Progressio; the Papal Encyclical of 26 March, 1967
- Sentencing and Prison reform in Germany and the Netherlands
- Accounting and Fraudulent Business Practices drain pension funds
- Transcript of Trump’s Conversation with Zelensky unclassified
- The Day Democracy Died; a youtube video and redone song about Trump — well done
- Looking for LGBTQ relatives — and ancestors (yes, sometimes they tried to be “normal”)
- All is One; a Native American take on Global Warming and other human foibles
- Quote from Pope Francis; echoing the theme of the Dalai Lama’s book, The Art of Happiness
- An Intimate look at Two Presidents: Barrack Obama and Joe Biden: Who are they REALLY?
- Letters from an American; last 40 years in American politics according to Heather Cox Richardson.
- Peace Stories by Anne Lewis; veterans talk about the wars they were in. (costs $0.99 to watch)
