Talk about amnesia, I remember that -

• I had once quipped that I wanted to be a writer "when I retired from aerospace".
• I submitted something pretty bad to the Young Author's Program one time (though I know I participated a few times and consistently got second place).
• I wrote some angsty poetry.

But I forgot that -

• I had taken creative writing in 4-H ( Read more... )

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I posted a while back about books that have changed my life in some way. I've been influenced by many, many books, but every so often there's one that changes the way I think in such a fundamental way that it splits my life into clean categories of before and after.

I lost my original list, but I've been skating around on Goodreads and created a ( Read more... )

I was thinking a while back about virtue ethics and the resolution to the is/ought problem by questioning whether there is an is/ought problem. Language, and therefore concept, has an instrumental element, and being the product (artifact, construction, etc), it has necessarily the limitations of the embodied point of view of the creator. Therefore ( Read more... )

I'm making a list of books that have changed my life. This is an entirely aubjective and contingent list, as I'm not listing books I think are important or influential to the world as a whole - simply books that, for me, created a definite before and after effect on my development as a person ( Read more... )

Thinking about dusting this off finally. Thinking about lots of things.

Chris Hedges is an interesting writer with an interesting background. I wasn't overwhelmed by what I read in his American Fascist - maybe I should give it a second chance - but I enjoyed this little piece posted in http://www.truthdig.com>Truthdig"The utter failure of nearly all our religious ( Read more... )

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
Wendell Berry

Yes, there is a Who Moved my Cheese?... for kids. Apparently there's one for teens, too.

That is all.

100% Mike Gravel
95% Dennis Kucinich
81% John Edwards
74% Barack Obama
73% Bill Richardson
72% Chris Dodd
72% Joe Biden
71% Hillary Clinton
31% Ron Paul
27% Rudy Giuliani
21% John McCain
20% Mike Huckabee
17% Tom Tancredo
15% Mitt Romney
8% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching QuizIt's okay if you've never heard of Mike Gravel - I've already made ( Read more... )