PUBLIC OCCURRENCES

very emotional today, right now. on the verge of crying; can feel the emotion compressing my chest, for hours now. stringing lights on the...

A MAN AND HIS DOG the man walked with his dog in the woods that he had known since childhood along an old indian path that long ago had been...

ISLAM IN ITS OWN WORDS, CONT. "do not have mercy or compassion toward the jews. their women are yours to take, legitimately. god made t...

Paul Wellstone amongst the many sincere tributes paid to the late senator paul wellstone were interspersed various short clips of his remark...

BODY AND SOUL what if someone from, say, the 18th century could be transported to the 21st century and see all the technology we have? what ...

"The Importance of Being Earnest" last night i came upon a recording of the william tell overture on my car radio. the passion a...

and to the original bloggers, the pamphleteers of colonial america, and to the original blog, p ublick occurrences both forreign and domesti...

SPIRITS i take a back seat to noone in expressing disdain for religion but i usually keep my mouth shut out of exasperation at the delusions...

CAUSES AND EFFECTS in science, determining cause and effect is accomplished by controlling for all but one variable. any changes in develop...

MEN BEHAVING BADLY "the soaps: for the sorority of the bored american woman, they are the next best thing to a life." "...the...

FOR A FOREIGN POLICY INFLUENCED BY PRINCIPLES OF FEDERALISM -OVERVIEW- to meet the challenges of the post cold war era a new framework f...

UNDER GOD those words were added to the pledge of allegiance by congress in 1954 at the height of mccarthyism, with the intent that it disti...

TO THE FUTURE one of the principals that informs the policies of this page is to be forward-looking. the search for "root causes" ...

PURE DRIVEL in the book by the same name, steve martin has a chapter entitled "hissy fit." he imagines a world in which the laws o...

TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES i have proposed general war with islam. the logic of it to me is clear, the altenatives lacking. and although i hav...

NOT MAD the doctrine of mutual assured destruction, or "mad" was the unseen hand of stability during the arms race with the soviet...