New Essays
New is relative. This list of essays is ordered latest first and dated so you can catch up on anything you've missed
9 Mar 2011 · A Spiritual Look at Robert's Rules of Order
The basic idea is to be fair.
28 Oct 2009 · Toys
The city resisted the jungle and wept glass tears.
12 Oct 2009 · Today I will change.
Initially, change does not ask much of her followers
7 Oct 2009 · Illegal
It's illegal but we do it anyway.
2 Oct 2009 · Immunization Volunteer
A little kid, a photograph and morality
20 Sep 2009 · Measured Education
How to annoy the teacher.
10 Sep 2009 · Geese and Grandkids
Geese can't understand, grandchildren might.
2 Sep 2009 · Apologies
Communicating across the void
13 Aug 2009 · Machines Should Beep
Beeping machines, artificial life, and talking GPSes
27 Jul 2009 · As Long As We Both Shall Live
Acting contrary to all reason and knowledge
14 Jul 2009 · House of Cards
I'll huff and I'll puff and blow your argument away.
5 Jul 2009 · Loopholes
There's always at least one
1 Jul 2009 · Identity
When is something ever the same.
30 Jun 2009 · Spiritual Lessons From Evolution IV
How closely related can you be?
27 Jun 2009 · The Humanity of Diversity
It takes a Special Olympics
30 May 2009 · The Worst Form of Government
Except for everything else
8 May 2009 · The Competitive Spiral
Working harder versus smarter isn't the choice we've been given.
17 Feb 2009 · Spiritual Lessons From Evolution III
It takes longer than you think
7 Feb 2009 · The Great Depression
About the nature of human economics
6 Feb 2009 · Long Term
Of an economist, an actuary and a weatherman
4 Feb 2009 · Of Committees, Teams, Mobs and Crowds
We all fall into this fallacy, sooner or later
1 Feb 2009 · Spiritual Lessons From Evolution II
All men are brothers
31 Jan 2009 · ttscp
What it's all about
31 Jan 2009 · Spiritual Lessons From Evolution I
Yes, "Survival of the Fittest" is spiritual.
30 Jan 2009 · Baby Talk
She sits among crying children behind a glass wall.
29 Jan 2009 · Working Too Hard
Are we really sure we've come a long way?
28 Jan 2009 · Inherited Morality
Strictly speculation, but then aren't all ethical discussions?
23 Dec 2008 · Caravan
A Cross Country Daydream
9 Dec 2008 · The Greatest Generation
That word; I do not think it means what you think it means.
4 Dec 2008 · Historical
Poised for Greatness
19 Oct 2008 · Ruling Class Attitudes
They'll do anything for your vote, except talk to you as an intelligent human being.
9 Oct 2008 · Cosmic Giraffe
An ordinary guy gets an extraordinary visit.
11 Jun 2007 · The Rule of Balance
What might be better than the Rule of Law?
1 Jun 2007 · Dancer
On the edge nobody is much interested in anyone else
31 May 2007 · Testing RSS
The code and test method strikes again.
30 May 2007 · Men and Civilization
What Decline of Men?
24 May 2007 · 17, 27, 40 and 60.
Of gas prices, mortality, denial and grief
13 May 2007 · The Color of Silence
Miriam lives at right angles to the rest of the world.
1 May 2007 · Young and Old
Maybe you just want to help pass love on.
29 Apr 2007 · This is Not a Blog
This is one work; a set of articles with an overarching direction which connect into a grand unified hypertextual whole.
3 Apr 2006 · Always act to increase the survival chances of the largest group you are a part of.
Morality from the outside in.