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February 2018

February 18, 2018

I Protest

Come, Muse, daughter of memory, In the name of Bertolt Brecht help me call The...

January 2018

January 24, 2018

How Hilkiah and Ezra Created Judaism

Hilkiah (High Priest of Jerusalem, ca. 660-600 BCE) knew what had happened to the inhabitants...

December 2016

December 18, 2016

The Scourge of Unteachability

I recently posted a bon mot on Facebook. It read, “Stupidity is not a moral...

November 2016

November 13, 2016

Strategies for Survival After a Drastic Drop in Income

The normal human living group throughout all history, from hunting and gathering societies to the...

November 09, 2016

We Need a “Diverse Majority” Party

Melinda was thinking about this; I suggested the name. Obviously we are dealing with a...

November 03, 2016

It’s Not Just About Trump: Unteachability Is a Mental Illness

Let’s look at what IQ means. It is not an innate, unchangeable trait. It is...

August 2016

August 15, 2016

The Jewish Cemetery in Paris, Texas

Two blocks from our house on Pine Bluff. Found by accident. Gravestones dated in the...

August 02, 2016

Some Instructions to Follow

When my Ethics class was about to get to the unit on Virtue Ethics, I...

August 01, 2016

On the Moral Implications of the Bell Curve

I spend about as much time as any other well-informed person being concerned about the...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

Why I Am Thoroughly Pissed Off at Jill Stein

It’s really because of my mother. I have told parts of her story before; I...

July 30, 2016

Jill Stein, you are betraying the Jewish people—and the rest of humanity—because Trump is a Nazi.

Everything you are doing and saying makes it a little more possible that this pathological...

June 2016

June 14, 2016

Why Churches Are Withering Away, Part I

Leslie White predicted this back in the 1950s. He could already see it happening, because...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

So Am I Jewish?

In early December Melinda was on Ancestry.com, trying to track down her Cherokee ancestors, the...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Can I Teach Again? Would Anyone Listen?

Recently a brilliant woman doctoral student picked me, apparently by intuition, out of the hundreds...

February 26, 2016

If Bernie is not nominated, we must vote for Hillary; we must stop Trump

Some “Berniecrats” are proclaiming that if Bernie does not win the nomination, they will not...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

My Current Titles Are Now Available on Kindle

Getting them on there has been a technical problem. More precisely, it has been me...

January 02, 2016

It is encouraging to receive good reviews

It is a pleasant surprise to find that someone has been saying good things about...

November 2015

November 03, 2015

Around Some Lines of Wordsworth

I saw that splendor in the burning roses, the radiating trees on that day...

June 2015

June 06, 2015

Caitlyn Jenner and Sexual Stereotyping

Her freedom is our freedom. I believe that all human beings have a natural right...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

Announcing Mythopoiesis: A Journal of Poetry and Radical Thought

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Lenin, State and Revolution, the One Percent, and Me

In June of 1963, I wrote my first Goddess ritual, for the wedding of my...

April 08, 2015

Winning the War Against White Male Privilege

It is obvious that being white, male, strong, bright, and creative is unfair to all...

November 2014

November 16, 2014

Reconnecting, Perhaps, with the Radical Left

Somehow Melinda got sent an invite to the Tacoma Free Skool's first organizing meeting. Since...

November 04, 2014

How I Pray

All sensible people pray, no matter what term they use to name what they do....

September 2014

September 03, 2014

America, We Have Eaten Dolphin Flesh

Life's a little too complicated at the moment to write a new long blog, but...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

In the Name of the Goddess, I Say to You . . .

All saints revile her, and all sober men Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean...

August 15, 2014

Nostalgia as a Root of Reactionary Politics

Now that life has calmed down a bit, I'll try posting some more of my...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Goody Jones’ Law, or, More on Unteachability

Goody Jones is your archetypal Ozark grandmother. She’s observed a great deal about humanity in...

May 05, 2014

#Patheos5Yrs

I've been writing blogs on here for about a year and a half. The discipline...

April 2014

April 02, 2014

Disqus Sucks

This is not so much a blog as a complaint about this system. I did...

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