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  1. Adventure/Experiences
  2. Business
  3. Calendars/Time
  4. Censoring Port of Call
  5. Crime and Terrorism
  6. Editor's Personal Promotion
  7. Education
  8. Factoids
  9. Foundations of Civilization
  10. Global/Historical Perspectives
  11. Government Abuse of Power/Threats to Liberty
  12. Internet/World Wide Web
  13. Intertel
  14. Male/Female/Family Relations
  15. Meaning of Life
  16. Medical/Biology/Ecology
  17. Miscellaneous
  18. Politics
  19. Pets
  20. Popular Media
  21. Port of Call
  22. Quotes & Conundrums
  23. Religion
  24. Short Stories
  25. Social/Political Philosophy
  26. Technology
  27. Urban Legends

Adventure/Experiences

  1. Rose Bottom
  2. AGA At Sea
  3. Branson For Christmas
  4. Brief Impression Of The South
  5. Shakespeare and Niagara Falls
  6. California Fires
  7. Firewalk
  8. The Mutinous Souvenir
  9. The Turk
  10. Mutterings About Moving
  11. Christmas In Victoria
  12. Amazing Races
  13. Alaska: The Inside Passage
  14. Climbing Volcanoes
  15. Jumping For Rubberneckers

Business

  1. Debt, Money, and National Prosperity
  2. Boeing Issues

Calendars/Time

  1. Letter - Kovac
  2. Paleozic Calendars
  3. Reusing Calendars
  4. Letter - Charles Dixon (More on reusing calendars)
  5. Letter - Albert J Derr
  6. Letter - Fred Woodworth (Error in factoid)
  7. Letter - Charles Dixon (Rate of change - days in year)
  8. Letter - Charles Dixon (Correction of reuse chart, leap years)

Censoring Port of Call

  1. Letter - Pomeroy (Objecting to Patterson letter in Integra)
  2. Letter - Patterson (Reply to Pomeroy letter)
  3. Port of Call Under Siege
  4. More Attacks on Port of Call
  5. Letter - Boone (Advocating censorship of POC)
  6. Editor's reply to Boone letter
  7. Letter - Gillett (Opposing censorship of POC)
  8. Letter - Mortensen (Opposing censorship of POC)
  9. Letter - Chaffin (Opposing censorship of POC)
  10. Letter - Sommerfeld (Opposing censorship of POC)
  11. Letter - Oskey (Opposing censorship of POC)
  12. Letter - King (Opposing censorship of POC)
  13. Letter - Hopp (Opposing censorship of POC)
  14. Letter - Siegienski (Opposing censorship of POC)
  15. Letter - McGehee (Opposing censorship of POC)

Crime and Terrorism

  1. Corporate Crimes
  2. Letter - Sherman Pitt
  3. Olsson's Book Bits - Queen, Rule
  4. Criminal Injustice Part One
  5. Surrogate Criminals
  6. Letter - BA (re: Disputing The Claims Of A Killer)
  7. Crimes and Criminals
  8. Giving In To Fear
  9. Fighting The Wrong War
  10. Hating America
  11. Off Target With Gun Controls
  12. Book Review - More Guns, Less Crime
  13. Russia's Failure To Thrive
  14. The PLO and Terrorism
  15. Crime in Japan
  16. Politics and Terrorism
  17. Disputing the Claims of a Killer
  18. Crime and Self Defense
  19. Right to Carry and Crime

Editor's Personal Promotion

  1. Project Progress
  2. Testing the Issues System
  3. News About Your Editor
  4. Curmudgeon's Conundrums Website

Education

  1. Public Education Is Socialism
  2. College Education?
  3. Innovation by Economic Darwinism
  4. Our Broken Schools
  5. The Myth of Higher Education
  6. Universal, Not Uniform
  7. On Public Education
  8. Wasted Opportunities
  9. The Education of War
  10. Don't Know Much 'bout History
  11. Book Review - Inside American Education, Sowell
  12. Modern Education
  13. Teaching the Fourth R - Reason

Factoids

  1. February/March 2011
  2. BBC Factoids
  3. A Billion
  4. February/March 1995
  5. April/May 1995
  6. June/July 1995
  7. August/September 1995
  8. Oct/Nov 1995
  9. Dec 1995/Jan 1996
  10. April/May 1996
  11. June/July 1996
  12. August/September 1996
  13. October/November 1996
  14. December 1996/January 1997
  15. April/May 1997
  16. June/July 1997
  17. August/September 1997
  18. October/November 1997
  19. February/March 1998
  20. April/May 1998
  21. October/November 1998
  22. April/May 1999
  23. June/July 1999
  24. August/September 1999
  25. April/May 2000
  26. August/September 2000
  27. February/March 2001
  28. June/July 2002
  29. August/September 2010
  30. December 2011/January 2012
  31. February/March 2012

Foundations of Civilization

  1. FIJA: The Vision And Mission
  2. Barbarians Within and Without
  3. Guns and Liberty
  4. Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
  5. Writer's Rights
  6. A Controlling Concept
  7. Hemp: Lifeline To The Future
  8. Excerpt: The Writer's Rights
  9. Freedom and Rebellion
  10. Definitions of Freedom
  11. Ethics and Natural Law
  12. Personal Power
  13. Technical Competence Gap
  14. Letter - Eric Vollrath (re: Technical Competence Gap)
  15. Letter - Kevin McGehee (re: Technical Competence Gap)
  16. Letter - Mark Huesmann (re: Technical Competence Gap)
  17. The 4th of July

Global/Historical Perspectives

  1. Liberty or Lard?
  2. A War Story
  3. The Real Che Guevara
  4. American Civilization I
  5. Rethinking The Renaissance
  6. Letter - Richard Kovac
  7. A Response To E. Allan Blair
  8. A More Practical Goal
  9. About Pirates
  10. Letter - Richard Kovac
  11. Letter - Richard Kovac
  12. Letter - Roberta Thursin Timmerman
  13. Letter - Rev. Don Timmerman
  14. Letter - Richard Kovac
  15. Letter to the Editor - Kovac
  16. Letter to the Editor - Timmerman
  17. Profound Statements
  18. Letter to the Editor - Timmerman
  19. The Wobblies
  20. Letter to the Editor - Schelpat
  21. Letter to the Editor - Timmerman
  22. Letter to the Editor - Kovac
  23. The Conversion of Socrates
  24. Letter to the Editor - Timmerman
  25. The Real Cause Of The Financial Crisis
  26. Letter - Don Timmerman
  27. A Response To Certain Rumors Of Adulation
  28. Letter - Richard Kovac
  29. Letter - Rev. Don Timmerman
  30. Arms And The Man
  31. Letter - Rev. Don Timmerman
  32. Letter - Richard Kovac
  33. Letter - Don Timmerman
  34. Letter - Richard Kovac
  35. Rebuilding Iraq
  36. Letter - Richard Kovac
  37. Observed In Atlanta Airport
  38. Terrorist Or Freedom-Fighter
  39. Letter - Don Timmerman
  40. Strange Things are Happening
  41. Letter - Don Timmerman
  42. Letter - Don Timmerman
  43. Dangerous Ideas
  44. Letter - Richard Kovac
  45. Letter - Richard Kovac
  46. Letter To The Editor - Noble
  47. Letter To The Editor - Timmerman
  48. Controversial "Saint" Befriends Motley Poets
  49. How Much Peace
  50. Marx's Mirror Image
  51. Chains of Coincidences
  52. Eve Of The Millennium
  53. False Wisdom
  54. The Cause That Was Lost
  55. Letter - ZRS, Koper (Scientific and Research Center, Republic of Slovenia)
  56. Book Review - Codename Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan
  57. Japan's New Revised History
  58. Bosnia - An Alternative View
  59. Letter - Oskey (Support for mediated solution in Bosnia)
  60. The Cold War In Amber
  61. The Price They Paid

Government Abuse of Power/Threats to Liberty

  1. Book Reviews From Goodreads.com - Doug Fine
  2. Letter - Kovac
  3. Letter - Kovac
  4. Airways Truth Searching
  5. Letter - Kovac
  6. Reason, Liberty, And Justice
  7. Prescription for Change: Take 2 Bureaucrats And Call Me While You're Mourning
  8. The Business Of Government
  9. Letter - James A. Kulacz
  10. Letter - Rev. Don Timmerman
  11. Letter - Richard Kovac
  12. The Constitution - Hit And Run By Fiat
  13. Letter - Richard Kovac
  14. Letter - Richard Kovac
  15. Orwell's Update
  16. Letter - Richard Kovac
  17. Letter - Rev. Timmerman
  18. We Are Fed Lies About Our Wars
  19. The Actual Causes of the Financial Crisis - Politicians
  20. "The Tattered Illusions Of Knowledge
  21. The Tattered Illusions Of Power
  22. City Hall
  23. You Can't Have It Both Ways
  24. Specters That Haunt The World Today
  25. The Bogus Drug War
  26. Populist Capitalism
  27. Disturbing Trends In New Orleans
  28. America: Land of the Free?
  29. Responsible? Gun Control
  30. Prude Offenders
  31. Public Propaganda
  32. Letter - Gteta Olsson
  33. Congratulations - Iloilo Jones re: Many Things Missing reprinted
  34. Book Notes - Posner
  35. Olsson's Book Bits - Griffin
  36. Letter - Jim Hart re: Capital Punishment
  37. letter - Mason re: Accessories To Evil
  38. Many Things Missing
  39. Prohibitionist Lies
  40. Accessories To Evil
  41. Teaching Children To Hate America
  42. Reichstag Redux
  43. Becoming The Enemy
  44. The Virtue Of Voter Apathy
  45. Liberty and Temperature
  46. Judges vs Juries
  47. Time: The True Tax Burden
  48. Letter to the Editor - Steve Mason
  49. Lessons of Miami
  50. Gun Control In Jamaica
  51. Losing Reasonableness
  52. Jury Power Information Kit
  53. The Lights Are Going Out
  54. The Importance of Words
  55. Letter - Fred Woodworth (Error in "The Importance of Words")
  56. Militia and the Standing Army
  57. Real Purpose of New Anti-Drug Ads
  58. Thoughts on the Drug War
  59. DEA Attacks First Amendment
  60. Drug War?
  61. The Essence of Freedom
  62. Gun Control in Action
  63. What Is Income?
  64. The Imperial Presidency - Making Free Speech a Crime
  65. Murder For Money
  66. Affirmative? Action
  67. Burning The Reichstag In Oklahoma
  68. Destroying The Evidence In Waco
  69. Weaver - Government Payoffs and Murders
  70. Criminalizing Confectionery
  71. Fully Informed Juries
  72. The Right to be Innocent
  73. Book Review - Lost Rights, Bovard
  74. On Laws and Lawfulness
  75. The UN vs the Constitution
  76. Roadkill for Dinner

Internet/World Wide Web

  1. Access to Information
  2. Intertel - The Way Ahead
  3. Internet Commerce
  4. Supporting Freedom of Speech on the Internet
  5. The Internet and Child Care
  6. Potentials Of The Web
  7. Email Forwarding Networks
  8. Stealing the Internet

Intertel

  1. AGA Wrap-up
  2. 2012 AGA Review
  3. LOU*LOU For President
  4. 2011 AGA Report
  5. Ayn Rand And High IQ Societies
  6. Greetings From Our New RD
  7. 2010 Austin AGA Report
  8. Greetings From Your RD
  9. AGA-At-Sea Members' Talents
  10. Annual General Assembly Report
  11. Letter - Lou Keay (LOU*LOU)
  12. Intertel in CyberSpace
  13. Facts About The Carnival Ecstasy
  14. New Opportunities, Moving, Networking
  15. Atlanta AGA 2007
  16. Region 7 Still Needs A New Director
  17. Region 7 Needs A New Director
  18. Letter - Richard Kovac
  19. Election Repercussions
  20. Portland 2006 AGA
  21. 12th Anniversary Issue!
  22. Nashville AGA
  23. AGA 2004 Report
  24. Letter - Richard Kovac
  25. Report From The 2003 AGA
  26. Report From The 2002 AGA
  27. Tampa AGA Report
  28. Calling All Thinkers!
  29. Test Scores
  30. Region 7's Director Goes To The AGA

Male/Female/Family Relations

  1. Civil Disobedence at Abrams Creek
  2. The Subjugation of Women
  3. April Memories
  4. Kids In The Belfry
  5. The Monogamy Myth
  6. They Lived Happily Ever After
  7. Little League
  8. Making Monsters
  9. Parents and Responsibility
  10. Book Review - The Alphabet vs The Goddess: The Confict Between Word And Image
  11. Men and Unhappy Women
  12. Asking Directions
  13. One Man's Opinion
  14. Daddy?
  15. The Tales We Tell Children

Meaning of Life

  1. Book Review - Broken SEAL
  2. Defining Heroism
  3. Profiles In Courage
  4. Take A Life Or Lose A Life
  5. Letter - Arnesen
  6. Imagination, the Fuel and Fertilizer of Our Future
  7. Time
  8. Letter - Kovac
  9. An Anesthetized Life Isn't Worth Living
  10. Letter - Kovac
  11. Robert Heinlein in "Time Enough For Love
  12. In Praise Of St. Bingo
  13. A Leprechan's Laser Light Of Life
  14. learning From Skinny Cats
  15. The Night Sky
  16. On Death And Dying
  17. Entropy, Complexity and Life
  18. Letter - Cox (Comments on Entropy)
  19. Letter - Boone (Corrections on Entropy)
  20. The Fabric of Existance

Medical/Biology/Ecology

  1. Letter - Fry
  2. Hello Prostate Cancer
  3. Mind Control
  4. Letter - Steve Mason
  5. Wired Up For The Lord
  6. Book Review - Senior Sex
  7. Let's Get Healthy
  8. MD Gifts
  9. Letter - Frank Bliss
  10. Letter - P.A. Stahl
  11. Let's Get Dumb
  12. Book Review - Nuts About Squirrels
  13. Animals, Humans And Moral Purpose
  14. Aqua Vite
  15. Creativity and Chaos
  16. Leveraging Language
  17. Marijuana and ADD
  18. The Ice Is Coming
  19. Language and Expression
  20. Evolution of the Brute
  21. Philosophy and Perception
  22. Book Review - Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals
  23. Perception and Behavior
  24. New High Profit Opportunity - Illicit Cloning
  25. Selecting Out Success
  26. The Endangered Male
  27. Cranial Cooling and Intelligence
  28. Observations on ADD
  29. Plague and Virtual Reality
  30. Exploitation vs Symbiosis

Miscellaneous

  1. Poetry by Thomas Murphy
  2. Poetry by Paul Shaw
  3. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  4. Book Reviews From Goodreads.com
  5. Book Reviews From Goodreads.com
  6. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  7. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  8. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  9. Book Review - Prouty
  10. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  11. Book Review - Gruber, Abram
  12. Book Review - Edwards, Gottlieb
  13. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  14. Letter - Richard Kovac
  15. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  16. Olsson's Book Bits - Charney, Mitchel
  17. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  18. Olsson's Book Bits - Mason, Snoad
  19. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  20. Poem by Mo Tse
  21. Olsson's Book Bits - Yule, Allen, Anderson, Rule, Olsen, Larsson, Dotto
  22. Book Review - Evans
  23. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  24. Olsson's Book Bits - Danilova, Gregory, Morton, Lane, Sands, Gardener
  25. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  26. Olsson's Book Bits - Long, Logan, Duperrault Fassbender
  27. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  28. Olsson's Book Bits - Lodge, Rafael
  29. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  30. Olsson's Book Bits - Rule, Hosseini, Collins, Brown, Rubenfeld, Kodas
  31. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  32. Olsson's Book Bits - Butcher, Harmon, Carlo
  33. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  34. Olsson's Book Bits - Carlo, Rule, Fleeman, Gotti, Taraborrelli, Grisham, Collins
  35. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  36. Olsson's Book Bits - Potter and Bost, Colon, Taraborrelli, McCraig
  37. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  38. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  39. Poetry by Iloilo Jones
  40. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  41. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  42. Olsson's Book Bits - Grothe
  43. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  44. Olsson's Book Bits - Ebershoff, Carlo, Davis
  45. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  46. Olsson's Book Bits - Myron, Casey, Steel, Gregory
  47. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  48. Olsson's Book Bits - McCall, Sims, Carlo
  49. Olsson's Book Bits - Bailey and Rabe, Brown, Rushdie, Cartland
  50. Book Review - Ultimate Sacrifice, Lamar Waldron with Hartmann
  51. Olsson's Book Bits - Grogan, Patterson and Paetro
  52. Olsson's Book Bits - Handler, Grisham
  53. Olsson's Book Bits - Rule, Patterson and Ledwidge
  54. Olsson's Book Bits - Lewis, Gregory, Rushdie
  55. Book Review - Taleb
  56. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  57. Olsson's Book Bits - Jerome
  58. Olsson's Book Bits - Tey
  59. Olsson's Book Bits - Rushdie
  60. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  61. Olsson's Book Bits - Berry, Ewing, Kushner
  62. Poetry by Paul Maxim
  63. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  64. Olsson's Book Bits - Rosecrance, Gerritsen, Brown, Morris, Rampa
  65. Olsson's Book Bits - Berry, Grisham, Armstrong
  66. Olsson's Book Bits - Kurlansky, Thompson
  67. Some Classics Revisited
  68. This One Stumped Einstein
  69. Olsson's Book Bits - Gregory, Leftkowitz
  70. Olsson's Book Bits - Morgan, Thompson
  71. Capsule Reviews
  72. Olsson's Book Bits
  73. Capsule Reviews
  74. Capsule Reviews
  75. Unfinished Sonnet #3
  76. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  77. Poetry by Paul Maxim
  78. Poetry by John McGilva
  79. Poetry by Iloilo M. Jones
  80. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  81. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  82. Poetry by Paul Maxim
  83. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  84. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  85. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  86. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  87. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  88. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  89. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  90. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  91. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  92. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  93. Poetry by Richard Kovac
  94. Letter - Richard Kovac
  95. Letter - Richard Kovac
  96. Letter - Stephen Noble
  97. Letter - Stephen Noble
  98. Book Bites
  99. Tales Of The Paranormal
  100. In Memorial - Block, Gould
  101. In Memorial - Herb Lipson
  102. Numerology In Quantum Physics
  103. In Memorial - John Gieniec
  104. Old Wise Sayings
  105. New Region VII Director
  106. Living With Cats
  107. Kids on Science
  108. Letter - Bohlman (Why Intertel?)
  109. Book Review - The Complete Piper, Rogers
  110. Letter - Margo Mason (Loss of Ed Fites)
  111. The Regional Rant
  112. Your Editor Attends the AGA!

Pets

  1. The Deerslayer Wanabe

Politics

  1. Every Legislature Needs A Permanent Repeals Committee
  2. Letter - Blair
  3. The Religion of Politics
  4. Stablizing Social Security
  5. Stablizing Social Security? Not This Way?
  6. Book Review - Cashill
  7. Tea Parties and Stinking Thinking
  8. Sunset All Federal Laws
  9. Universal Health Insurance - The Private Option
  10. Comrpomise Means Americans Receive Nothing
  11. Fighting Gerrymandering
  12. That Vile 1 Percent
  13. Financial Crisis
  14. Why Obama Does Not Bring Change
  15. Vote For Me
  16. Meaning Shift In Politics
  17. Letter To The Editor - Dalsey
  18. Approval Voting
  19. A New Party?
  20. Taxation Becomes Representation
  21. Keep The Electoral College
  22. Fixing The Electoral College
  23. To All Americans
  24. The Myth of the Wasted Vote
  25. Principalities
  26. Extremism
  27. Tax Reform
  28. We The Government
  29. A Constitution
  30. Clinton vs Democracy
  31. Fasten Your Seat-belts, Republicans
  32. Reflections On Change
  33. Dole's Fascism Revealed
  34. New Depth of Disrepute
  35. The Value of a Single Vote

Popular Media

  1. Stargazing
  2. Television, Opium of the People
  3. Smoke, Sex And Suicide
  4. Michael And Me
  5. Thorogh Thinker's Thoughtful Theorems
  6. Great Wasteland Revisted
  7. Flawed Flaw Reporting

Port of Call

  1. Letter - Kulacz
  2. Letter - Steve Mason
  3. Letter - Steve Mason
  4. Big Changes In Port of Call
  5. Letter To The Editor - Mason
  6. Letter To The Editor - Dalsey
  7. Letter To The Editor - Kovac
  8. RD Rants and Rave
  9. First Anniversary
  10. Second Anniversary
  11. Third Anniversary
  12. Encouraging Submissions to POC
  13. POC is now on the World Wide Web
  14. Internet Cartoons Come To POC
  15. Fourth Anniversary Issue
  16. Port of Call Has Moved
  17. Fifth Anniversary Issue!
  18. Sixth Anniversary Issue!
  19. Seventh Anniversary Issue!
  20. Eighth Anniversary Issue!
  21. Ninth Anniversary Issue!
  22. 10th Anniversary Issue!
  23. 11th Anniversary Issue!

Quotes & Conundrums

  1. April/May 1995
  2. June/July 1995
  3. August/September 1995
  4. October/November 1995
  5. December 1995/January 1996
  6. February/March 1996
  7. April/May 1996
  8. June/July 1996
  9. August/September 1996
  10. October/November 1996
  11. December 1996/January 1997
  12. February/March 1997
  13. April/May 1997
  14. June/July 1997
  15. August/September 1997
  16. October/November 1997
  17. December 1997/January 1998
  18. February/March 1998
  19. April/May 1998
  20. June/July 1998
  21. August/September 1998
  22. October/November 1998
  23. December 1998/January 1999
  24. February/March 1999
  25. April/May 1999
  26. June/July 1999
  27. August/September 1999
  28. October/November 1999
  29. December 1999/January 2000
  30. February/March 2000
  31. April/May 2000
  32. June/July 2000
  33. August/September 2000
  34. October/November
  35. December 2000/January 2001
  36. February/March 2001
  37. April/May 2001
  38. June/July 2001
  39. August/September 2001
  40. October/November 2001
  41. December 2001/January 2002
  42. February/March 2002
  43. April/May 2002
  44. June/July 2002
  45. August/September 2002
  46. October/November 2002
  47. December 2002/January 2003
  48. February/March 2003
  49. April/May 2003
  50. June/July 2003
  51. August/September 2003
  52. October/November 2003
  53. December 2003/January 2004
  54. February/March 2004
  55. April/May 2004
  56. June/July 2004
  57. August/September 2004
  58. October/November 2004
  59. December 2004/January 2005
  60. February/March 2005
  61. April/May 2005
  62. June/July 2005
  63. August/September 2005
  64. October/November 2005
  65. December 2005/January 2006
  66. February/March 2006
  67. April/May 2006
  68. June/July 2006
  69. August/September 2006
  70. October/November 2006
  71. December 2006/January 2007
  72. February/March 2007
  73. April/May 2007
  74. June/July 2007
  75. August/September 2007
  76. October/November 2007
  77. December 2007/January 2008
  78. February/March 2008
  79. April/May 2008
  80. June/July 2008
  81. August/September 2008
  82. October/November 2008
  83. Dec 2008/Jan 2009
  84. February/March 2009
  85. April/May 2009
  86. June/July 2009
  87. August/September 2009
  88. October/November 2009
  89. December 2009/January 2010
  90. February/March 2010
  91. April/May 2010
  92. June/July 2010
  93. August/September 2010
  94. October/November 2010
  95. December 2010/January 2011
  96. February/March 2011
  97. April/May 2011
  98. June/July 2011
  99. August/September 2011
  100. October/November 2011
  101. December 2011/January 2012
  102. February/March 2012
  103. April/May 2012
  104. June/July 2012
  105. August/September 2012
  106. October/November 2012
  107. Cat Quotes
  108. Dog Quotes
  109. The Credo of Jack London

Religion

  1. Letter - Timmerman
  2. Letter - Timmerman
  3. Letter - Kovac
  4. Letter - Richard Kovac
  5. Occam's Razor
  6. Letter - Richard Kovac
  7. Letter - Richard Kovac
  8. Jesus Who?
  9. Letter - Richard Kovac
  10. Letter - Don Timmerman
  11. Letter to the Editor - Kovac
  12. Visiting The Hutterites
  13. Metaphor and Reality
  14. Letter - Tom Vaughn
  15. Victims Of The Myth Lab
  16. And So Happy Christmas
  17. Live And Let Live
  18. Letter - Greta Olsson
  19. The End Is Near
  20. The Father And The Son
  21. True And False Religion And Superstition
  22. Letter - Richard Kovac
  23. Letter - Stephen Noble
  24. Letter - Aubrey Ellen Shomo
  25. Jesus Who?
  26. Religious Zealotry, An Untenable Position
  27. Letter - Richard Kovac
  28. The Genius of Jesus

Short Stories

  1. Being Aware Of Being
  2. Taking The Test
  3. The Old Man
  4. A Few Nights of Purple Passion
  5. The Art Dealer
  6. Sundown At Coffin Rock
  7. The Fog Will Rise
  8. Nothing, Nothing At All
  9. It's All The Rage
  10. The Closet
  11. Paradise
  12. The Search
  13. The All-In-One Do Everything Machine
  14. The Vamp
  15. Suzie
  16. The Puzzle Shop
  17. Can You Build This?
  18. Land Owner Relations
  19. Wrong Hat

Social/Political Philosophy

  1. This Is A Role Model: Don't Be Like me
  2. Letter - Kovac
  3. Letter - Richard Kovac
  4. Leaders, Learning And Lighthouses
  5. Letter - Richard Kovac
  6. Democracy Is More Than Just Voting
  7. Letter - Rev. Don Timmerman
  8. Letter to the Editor - Mason
  9. Letter to the Editor - Kovac
  10. Comments for the Constitutional Conference
  11. Capital Formation
  12. The Lure Of Gun Control
  13. Letter - Richard Kovac
  14. The Dismal Science
  15. "Fair" Market Capitalism
  16. Reply To Digressions and Diatribes
  17. Evil Corporations? - For Sure!
  18. Response to Stahl's response to Fisher's piece about Corporations
  19. "Evil" Corporations
  20. The One To Be Wary Of
  21. The Available Panacea
  22. Discipline vs Punishment
  23. Dysfunctional...And Proud Of It
  24. I Don't Know
  25. One With Everything
  26. Letter - Richard Kovac
  27. Letter - Don Timmerman
  28. Letter - Richard Kovac
  29. Alas, Babylon?
  30. Amazing Perversions
  31. Hitler Comes Home
  32. Letter - Don Timmerman
  33. I'm A Racist
  34. Letter - Richard Kovac
  35. Letter - Don Timmerman
  36. Fog and Haze, Smoke and Spin
  37. The Value of Greed And Laziness
  38. Letter To The Editor - Kovac
  39. Letter To The Editor - Kovac
  40. Letter To The Editor - Kovac
  41. Letter To The Editor - Dalsey
  42. Fundamental Philosophies
  43. letter - Albert Maise
  44. Letter - Richard Kovac
  45. Of Humans And Swine
  46. Fallacies - Appeal To Ignorance
  47. The Existence of a Spirit of Evil
  48. Cut To The Chase
  49. Will There Be A Future
  50. Letter - Richard Kovac
  51. The Creation Of A World
  52. A Pointless Column
  53. Observations Of Socialism
  54. Fallacies - False Alternatives
  55. Fallacies - Barking Cat
  56. Letter - Richard Kovac
  57. Letter - Richard Kovac
  58. Pledge Of Allegiance
  59. Letter - Richard Kovac (Political and economic systems)
  60. Letter - Nate Sophael (reply - Political definitions)
  61. Fallacies - Argument From Intimidation
  62. Political Labels
  63. A Happy Face
  64. Fallacies - Spurious Superficiality
  65. Bigger 'n' Better
  66. Fallacies - Proof By Selected Instances
  67. Speaking English
  68. Lookin' For Trouble
  69. Letter - Sophael (Reply to Lookin' For Trouble)
  70. Fallacies - Variant Imagization
  71. Fallacies - Fantasy Projection/Contex Imposition
  72. Love American Style
  73. Fallacies - Relative Privation
  74. Fallacies - Missing Link
  75. Predatory Practices
  76. Show Some Class
  77. Fallacies - Anti-conceptual Mentality
  78. A Stranger - In an Even Stranger Land
  79. Fallacies - Ad Fidentia, Argumentum Ad Verecundiam
  80. The Kiddy Shield
  81. Fallacies - Ambiguous Collective
  82. Letter - Frank Bartlett (re: The Purpose of Participation)
  83. The Purpose Of Participation
  84. Fat Bellied Socialism
  85. Moral Equivalence and Civilization
  86. Land Of The Free?
  87. Science, Politics and Elegance
  88. Freedom
  89. Afrohoma - Perspectives on a Black State of Oklahoma
  90. Two Kinds of People
  91. Good Uses for Monarchies
  92. Darwin's Incessant Tramping
  93. Letter - Francis G. Bartlett (re: Darwin's Incessant Tramping/Buhner)
  94. Letter - Arthur Kalmeyer (re: Darwin's Incessant Tramping/Buhner)
  95. Letter - Joan Dash (re: Why I Don't Compute/Fry)
  96. Darwin's March
  97. Letter - Guy Letourneau (re: Darwin's March/Mason)
  98. Power and Purpose
  99. Language and Markets
  100. My Gay Ways
  101. A Black Box Society
  102. Minor Surgery
  103. The Virtues of Confederacies
  104. Forget About Posterity
  105. Mad At MADD
  106. In Defense of Happiness
  107. Freedom and Firewalls
  108. Good and Evil
  109. Knowing Evil
  110. I'm A Controlled Alcoholic
  111. Sex and Society
  112. The WTO and Free Trade
  113. Freedom On A Leash
  114. Why Global Warming?
  115. The Calculus of Control
  116. American Fascism
  117. Religious Terrorism and the Secular State
  118. Conditional Respect
  119. Raising The Minimum Wage
  120. Secular Ethics and Tolerance
  121. Greed and Laziness
  122. Discrimination
  123. Are We Certain?
  124. The Dangers of Safety
  125. The Credibility of Information
  126. Interest Based Process As Leadership
  127. Relational Aggressor: The New Bully on the Block
  128. Killer Bras
  129. Truth and Lies from the Dark Side
  130. On Goodness And Being Good
  131. Lethal Liberalism
  132. Who Can you Believe?
  133. From Modest Beginnings - Observations of Germany in the 1930's
  134. Letter - Mortensen (Conservatism vs Liberalism)
  135. Letter - Ken Cox (Response to the pathology of tyranny)
  136. Federal or State Citizen?
  137. Scarcity vs Plenty

Technology

  1. Letter - Kovac
  2. Why Are We Still Using Gas Driven Vehicles?
  3. Alternative Transportation
  4. Scarcity Mentality And The End Of The Oil Era
  5. The Usefulness Conundrum
  6. Further Adventures With Linux
  7. Technology and Disabilies
  8. Practicing Safe Computing
  9. Virtual Service Networks
  10. Developing Two Minds
  11. Why I Don't Compute
  12. Software and Social Dynamics
  13. Changing Information Flow
  14. Letter To The Prince
  15. Philosophy of Software Development
  16. The Sword Of Ehud
  17. Book Review - Cryptonomicon, Stephenson
  18. The Fungus Among Us
  19. Year 2000 Bugs
  20. Cyber Celebrities
  21. Considering Landmines
  22. A Landmine Proposal
  23. Losing The Past
  24. Letter - George Drake (Response to Losing the Past)
  25. Telecommunications
  26. Microsoft's Digital Spy
  27. Performance Animation
  28. Bad Day For Tech Support
  29. The Creature Lives!
  30. Personal Area Networks

Urban Legends

  1. Retraction - Craig Sherford Myth
  2. Letter - Rego (Sherford urban legend)
  3. Retraction and Editor's Reply to Rego Letter

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