💾 Category: Words

Category: Words

Blog Americans Can Be Too Egocentric

When the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a farm in Pennsylvania were attacked, most Americans saw it as an attack on America itself. Sure, it all happened on American…

Sep 11, 2003
Blog Iraq Teaches Us to Think Long-Term

One of the things that bother me about some people is their refusal to look at things in the long-term, or the Grand Scheme of Things. I’ve observed that many…

Sep 10, 2003
Blog Animal Instincts

I’m sitting here with my giant golden retriever puppy (Buddy), my fairly young cat (Sasha) and her less-than-a-month-old kitten (Spot). The mama cat sat down beside me, right in front…

Jul 31, 2003
Shared Abortion

Everyone who ever debates abortion should read this first. I first read the following article in Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan. It was co-written by Carl and his wife…

May 4, 2003
Blog Saddamn, What a Moron

President Bush, in reference to Saddam Hussein, recently said, “It would be foolhardy to wait for him to attack us before we acted.” Besides that quote being fundamentally flawed (which…

Dec 17, 2002
Articles My Statement of Aesthetics

Initially, I took my first poetry class because I thought that poetry and prose were two completely different things, and I needed to explore my poetic side. But as the…

Dec 4, 2002
Bad Poetry Trinity

In a time before Ground Zero meant something else, After our cousins Einstein, Teller, and Oppenheimer, In an empty desert guarded by squat mountains, Humanity took its first step into…

Nov 26, 2002