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Philosophy- Sep 22, 2014.
Life, education, and life-long learning - Dec 16, 2013.
In celebration of curiosity - Nov 21, 2013.
Fuzziness is all - Sep 07, 2013.
Simple thoughts on religion - Jun 20, 2012.
What to believe? - May 17, 2012.
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much - Mar 11, 2012.
Swerving into modernity - Oct 13, 2010.
Cartesian dualism is driving me crazy - Oct 13, 2010.
Descartes made easy - Sep 12, 2010.
Hope against hope: Immortality and illusion - Sep 05, 2010.
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million - Aug 26, 2010.
Mother Teresa's advice - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: words, words, words - Jul 28, 2010.
Martin Gardner - Thanks for many hours of delight
- Sep 22, 2014.
Religion- Apr 24, 2020.
Wide of the Mark - Dec 21, 2017.
Reforming progress - Dec 11, 2017.
Apocalyptic politics - Feb 27, 2017.
Evolution + Intelligent Design = 42 - Oct 22, 2014.
Halting steps to soul freedom - Sep 05, 2014.
The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson - Aug 10, 2014.
Paul, simply - Feb 22, 2014.
The origins of modern society - Feb 02, 2014.
My favorite inquisitor - Dec 30, 2013.
Convivencia is a state of mind - Dec 16, 2013.
To the power of love - Dec 05, 2013.
To the Hebrew congregation in Newport Rhode Island - Oct 15, 2013.
Can religion and science be reconciled? - Sep 08, 2013.
The ghost of Schaeffer past - Sep 07, 2013.
Simple thoughts on religion - May 06, 2013.
Hearts and minds - Jun 20, 2012.
What to believe? - May 16, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued (3) - May 11, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued - May 02, 2012.
The Bible tells me so - Apr 08, 2012.
Reasoning with Thomas Paine - Mar 20, 2012.
Jesus, simply - Mar 14, 2012.
Is religious tolerance religious freedom? - Jan 09, 2012.
Absolute truth is a tough nut - Nov 15, 2010.
Wandering Mennonites - Sep 12, 2010.
Hope against hope: Immortality and illusion - Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Britt Towery - Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Leonard Pitts - Jul 22, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero - Uniting Americans Against Terrorism - Jul 19, 2010.
The Bard of Wasilla - Jan 15, 2010.
Modern Jeremiad - Jan 14, 2010.
Abiogenesis or Creation? - Jan 01, 2010.
The goriest story ever told
- Apr 24, 2020.
Science- Apr 29, 2020.
Honest Jim - Apr 24, 2020.
Wide of the Mark - Mar 27, 2020.
Gamow on Gravity - Mar 25, 2020.
The Dark Lady of DNA - Aug 19, 2019.
Short and sweet - Apr 03, 2019.
The moons of Jupiter - Jan 05, 2019.
Entropy is so simple - Nov 30, 2018.
Pandora has many boxes - Jun 27, 2018.
A Finch in Time - Jan 07, 2018.
Too simply pure - Mar 14, 2017.
Are there Laws of Medicine? - Feb 27, 2017.
Evolution + Intelligent Design = 42 - Oct 01, 2016.
Has Lamarckism been revived? - Aug 05, 2015.
Large Scale Genomics in Beijing - Apr 18, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Bats, moths and mites - Apr 14, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Ants and acacia trees - Dec 10, 2014.
The physical sublety of life - Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries - Jun 05, 2014.
The Origins of Modern Science - Feb 09, 2014.
The many ways of misusing quantum physics - Feb 07, 2014.
Is the selfish gene dead? - Jan 03, 2014.
Darwin's endless forms most beautiful - Dec 16, 2013.
In celebration of curiosity - Nov 21, 2013.
Fuzziness is all - Oct 15, 2013.
Can religion and science be reconciled? - Sep 18, 2013.
Humbled again by particle physics - Jun 20, 2012.
What to believe? - May 17, 2012.
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much - Mar 31, 2012.
Sleepwalking amid new ideas - Jan 09, 2012.
Absolute truth is a tough nut - Jan 01, 2011.
What is science? Maybe not what you think it is . . . - Nov 21, 2010.
Taking fundamental science personally - Oct 12, 2010.
Plants talk, too! - Oct 12, 2010.
Parascience: Fair - or not - Sep 22, 2010.
Evo devo: where a little means a lot - Sep 17, 2010.
Thanks to my favorite professor, Dr. Kenneth Krane - Aug 12, 2010.
haiku - Aug 03, 2010.
In the mood for a sweet scientific joke? Biology meets chemistry - Jul 28, 2010.
Martin Gardner - Thanks for many hours of delight - Jul 15, 2010.
Our vital Microbiome: bacteria cure diseases too! - Jun 12, 2010.
"Superman violates the laws of physics!" (I will never live that down.) - May 22, 2010.
Craig Venter is utterly amazing! - Jan 15, 2010.
Modern Jeremiad - Jan 14, 2010.
Abiogenesis or Creation? - Dec 29, 2009.
Bacteria talk to each other ... new approach to antibiotics?
- Apr 29, 2020.
Technology- Nov 24, 2012.
Moving inexorably to the Kindle - Nov 18, 2012.
The superweed and GMO crops - Dec 24, 2011.
The Genius of Apple - May 10, 2011.
The Internet Filter - thanks, TED - Jul 13, 2010.
Toyota Prius's not so "sudden acceleration"
- Nov 24, 2012.
Art- Nov 02, 2014.
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors? - Oct 07, 2014.
Resident artist gallery - Oct 07, 2014.
Resident artist
- Nov 02, 2014.
Films- Dec 26, 2017.
Diner: A movie that never gets old - Dec 14, 2017.
Band of Brothers: A movie that never gets old - Mar 22, 2017.
Is truculence alienation? - Feb 27, 2015.
Broadway Danny Rose: A movie that never gets old - Nov 02, 2014.
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors? - Apr 26, 2014.
Days of Our Lives has an opening on their writing staff - Mar 17, 2014.
Movies that never seem to get old - Feb 09, 2014.
Watching Woody Allen movies - or not - Jan 15, 2014.
Get Shorty: A movie that never gets old - Nov 29, 2013.
The Incredibles: A movie that never gets old - Nov 16, 2013.
Dumb and Dumber: A movie that never gets old - Oct 15, 2013.
One Two Three: A movie that never gets old - May 14, 2013.
Ben-Hur: A movie that never gets old - Mar 11, 2013.
The Jerk: A movie that never gets old - Jan 20, 2013.
Bicycle dreams? - May 01, 2012.
Fargo: A movie that never gets old - Feb 07, 2012.
Auntie Mame: A movie that never gets old - Aug 05, 2011.
Moonstruck: A movie that never gets old - Jul 01, 2011.
Nobody's Fool: A movie that never gets old - Jun 20, 2011.
Arthur: A movie that never gets old - Feb 27, 2011.
How to tell a story in 4 minutes, with no words - May 17, 2010.
Too pacific - Jan 01, 2010.
The goriest story ever told
- Dec 26, 2017.
History- Mar 25, 2020.
The Dark Lady of DNA - Oct 27, 2019.
fin de siècle German optimism - Jun 23, 2016.
The smartest Nazi - Nov 06, 2015.
Napoleon - Feb 15, 2015.
Trent: Too little, too late - Dec 10, 2014.
The physical sublety of life - Sep 01, 2014.
Why read history? - Jun 05, 2014.
The Origins of Modern Science - Feb 22, 2014.
The origins of modern society - Dec 30, 2013.
Convivencia is a state of mind - Dec 05, 2013.
To the Hebrew congregation in Newport Rhode Island - Sep 27, 2013.
I, Benvenuto Cellini - Sep 18, 2013.
Humbled again by particle physics - Sep 08, 2013.
The ghost of Schaeffer past - May 14, 2012.
Voltaire is a sharp kick in the pants - Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy - Apr 08, 2012.
Reasoning with Thomas Paine - Mar 31, 2012.
Sleepwalking amid new ideas - Mar 24, 2012.
Slavery was the First Cause of the Civil War - Mar 14, 2012.
Is religious tolerance religious freedom? - Mar 11, 2012.
Swerving into modernity - Dec 24, 2011.
The Genius of Apple - Sep 11, 2011.
Oregon loves New York: memories of 9/11 - Apr 10, 2011.
Whitewashing the most peculiar institution:
a Lost Cause - Apr 05, 2011.
Here's the Thing about equal rights - Feb 20, 2011.
You can't go home again . . . to Husterhöh Kaserne - Dec 19, 2010.
Unforgettable, complete Holocaust story - Oct 22, 2010.
Storming the Bastille, then laundry - May 17, 2010.
Too pacific - Jan 24, 2010.
Doc Holliday's story
- Mar 25, 2020.
Literature- Mar 30, 2019.
Weebcentral Library - Mar 18, 2015.
A good man cannot be found - Mar 05, 2015.
Heart out of darkness - Sep 15, 2014.
Candide in Maryland - Jul 07, 2014.
The burden of combat - Mar 02, 2014.
Nightmares in L.A. - Feb 09, 2014.
The heart of the orchard - Sep 27, 2013.
I, Benvenuto Cellini - May 14, 2012.
Voltaire is a sharp kick in the pants - Apr 28, 2012.
Can precision in writing be attained? - Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy - Mar 14, 2012.
Is religious tolerance religious freedom? - Mar 11, 2012.
Swerving into modernity - Mar 04, 2012.
Imagination nonpareil - Feb 29, 2012.
Lizbet Salander, meet Inspector Maigret - Feb 24, 2012.
The secret world sharply rendered - Jan 11, 2012.
(Post?) Modern tale of mortality - May 19, 2011.
The art of writing? Just get started - Dec 19, 2010.
Unforgettable, complete Holocaust story - Nov 21, 2010.
Taking fundamental science personally - Nov 15, 2010.
Wandering Mennonites - Nov 02, 2010.
Totalitarian Zeitgeist - Oct 22, 2010.
Storming the Bastille, then laundry - Oct 20, 2010.
Teach for America - Sep 28, 2010.
Cynicism of the highest order - Sep 12, 2010.
"Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him."
- Mar 30, 2019.
Music- Jan 06, 2025.
Music man - Jul 15, 2023.
The joy of making music - Nov 03, 2016.
American Soul - Oct 19, 2014.
If I ruled the world - Apr 06, 2014.
Celia's Lullaby - Jul 28, 2013.
Das echte Lied der Alpenkräuter - Apr 10, 2011.
Virtual Choir 2.0: Eric Whitacre and 2,052 singers! - Mar 05, 2011.
Carole King's Tapestry, still in my heart - Jun 01, 2010.
Listen to an Internet choir: lush!
- Jan 06, 2025.
Essays- Apr 03, 2019.
The moons of Jupiter - Jan 20, 2017.
Citizenship: Making sense of hysteria - Sep 22, 2014.
Life, education, and life-long learning - Sep 05, 2014.
The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson - Nov 21, 2013.
Fuzziness is all - Oct 15, 2013.
Can religion and science be reconciled? - Jan 16, 2013.
How should we then live? - Jan 15, 2013.
Absolutely relative - Jan 14, 2013.
Christianity good, secularism bad - Jan 13, 2013.
The good old days of Christendom - Nov 18, 2012.
The superweed and GMO crops - Jun 20, 2012.
What to believe? - May 17, 2012.
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much - Apr 28, 2012.
Can precision in writing be attained? - Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy - Apr 06, 2012.
There but for the grace of God goes ... Ayn Rand? - May 19, 2011.
The art of writing? Just get started - Apr 10, 2011.
Whitewashing the most peculiar institution:
a Lost Cause - Apr 05, 2011.
Here's the Thing about equal rights - Nov 30, 2010.
Recasting the American Dream - Oct 12, 2010.
Parascience: Fair - or not - Sep 12, 2010.
Hope against hope: Immortality and illusion - Sep 05, 2010.
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million - Aug 01, 2010.
Healthcare and the last days - Letting go - Jul 18, 2010.
Iraq as a Failed Anti-Terrorism Policy - Jan 15, 2010.
Modern Jeremiad
- Apr 03, 2019.
Memoirs- Jan 06, 2025.
Music man - Feb 12, 2024.
Remembering my Dad - Jan 03, 2024.
A Mighty Carpenter - Jul 15, 2023.
The joy of making music - Apr 21, 2019.
Touring with Ted - Jan 27, 2018.
So Long, Steve - May 07, 2015.
At play with Uncle Ron - Mar 02, 2015.
Memories of Shelby Ferguson - Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries - Sep 06, 2014.
Milestones of our courtship - Jul 17, 2014.
La main gauche est maladroit - Apr 06, 2014.
Celia's Lullaby - Mar 30, 2014.
Paris before the age of parkour - Dec 12, 2013.
Home brewing: Yeast is your friend - Dec 09, 2013.
Would you let your child play football? - Aug 25, 2013.
Glenn Jaeger, in Memoriam - Jul 28, 2013.
Das echte Lied der Alpenkräuter - Sep 15, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 7 from Bly - last day - Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 6 from Klamath Falls - Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 5 from Ashland - Sep 13, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 4 from Ashland - Sep 12, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 3 from Crater Lake! - Sep 11, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 2 from Fort Klamath - Sep 09, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 1 from Silver Lake - Sep 08, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal: Day 0 from Bly - Aug 26, 2012.
Doctor Dad ... Irreplaceable - Sep 11, 2011.
Oregon loves New York: memories of 9/11 - Apr 05, 2011.
Here's the Thing about equal rights - Mar 20, 2011.
Chess tournament etiquette: Performance art? - Mar 05, 2011.
Carole King's Tapestry, still in my heart - Feb 20, 2011.
You can't go home again . . . to Husterhöh Kaserne - Feb 16, 2011.
Memories of Ann Williams - Sep 05, 2010.
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million - Aug 26, 2010.
Louise Watson - In Memoriam - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: passions - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: words, words, words - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: WWII - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: early life - Aug 07, 2010.
Burt Ferguson: in memoriam
- Jan 06, 2025.
Observations- Jan 02, 2020.
The End of Faith? - Jul 13, 2019.
Getting Over the Hump - Mar 22, 2018.
Supporting Law Enforcement - Feb 26, 2018.
Dominion or co-existence? - Dec 22, 2017.
What is enlightenment? - Dec 11, 2017.
Apocalyptic politics - Sep 26, 2017.
With liberty and justice for all - Nov 03, 2016.
American Soul - Oct 18, 2016.
Crude, Rude, and Impolite - Oct 09, 2016.
The Law of Political Scruples - Sep 18, 2016.
Looking back at O. J. - Aug 27, 2016.
Is Cuba an exemplar of U. S. foreign policy? - Jul 14, 2016.
Political epigrams - Apr 30, 2016.
There is "spin", and there is bearing false witness - Aug 05, 2015.
Large Scale Genomics in Beijing - Jul 04, 2015.
Is the Lost Cause finally getting lost? - Nov 15, 2014.
The Sylmar Scribbler gets a new name - Nov 01, 2014.
The Last Kingdom - Oct 19, 2014.
If I ruled the world - Sep 01, 2014.
Why read history? - Jul 03, 2014.
World cup philosophy - Apr 22, 2014.
Punctuated equilibrium - Apr 10, 2014.
Vox de intellectu - the voice of understanding - Feb 09, 2014.
Watching Woody Allen movies - or not - Feb 09, 2014.
The many ways of misusing quantum physics - Jan 13, 2014.
Quelle est la quenelle? - Jan 08, 2014.
The Era of Open Information - Jan 03, 2014.
Darwin's endless forms most beautiful - Dec 16, 2013.
To the power of love - Dec 16, 2013.
In celebration of curiosity - Dec 08, 2013.
False confession? How is that possible? - Dec 05, 2013.
To the Hebrew congregation in Newport Rhode Island - Nov 03, 2013.
AVID teacher - Sep 07, 2013.
Simple thoughts on religion - Jul 26, 2013.
Knives? Guns? Or Disarm? - Jun 18, 2013.
Opa welcomes Maiella! - Oct 03, 2012.
Stepping back from blind partisanship - Jul 08, 2012.
Celebrating Frog - street jokester of Eugene - May 16, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued (3) - May 11, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued - May 08, 2012.
Grandbabies! - May 02, 2012.
The Bible tells me so - Feb 18, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012! - May 10, 2011.
The Internet Filter - thanks, TED - Apr 10, 2011.
Virtual Choir 2.0: Eric Whitacre and 2,052 singers! - Jan 19, 2011.
How did we get ourselves into this terrible financial mess? - Jan 01, 2011.
What is science? Maybe not what you think it is . . . - Dec 02, 2010.
Macroeconomics, the rap version - Oct 13, 2010.
Cartesian dualism is driving me crazy - Oct 13, 2010.
Descartes made easy - Oct 12, 2010.
Plants talk, too! - Sep 28, 2010.
I hear America singing - Sep 22, 2010.
Evo devo: where a little means a lot - Sep 12, 2010.
"Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him." - Sep 12, 2010.
Resident physicians: Too tired, or what? - Aug 26, 2010.
The promise of new life - Aug 26, 2010.
Mother Teresa's advice - Aug 03, 2010.
In the mood for a sweet scientific joke? Biology meets chemistry - Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Britt Towery - Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Leonard Pitts - Jul 22, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero - Uniting Americans Against Terrorism - Jul 19, 2010.
The Bard of Wasilla - Jul 15, 2010.
Our vital Microbiome: bacteria cure diseases too! - Jul 13, 2010.
Toyota Prius's not so "sudden acceleration" - Jul 06, 2010.
Examining race and innocence - Jul 05, 2010.
Is the International Baccelaureate program anti-American? - Jul 03, 2010.
Watch USA v England . . . in Lego-motion! - Jul 01, 2010.
The bigotry of "judicial activism" - Jun 25, 2010.
David Brooks over-reacts to McChrystal's firing - Jun 18, 2010.
Congratulations to Dr. Jon! Woohoo! - Jun 12, 2010.
"Superman violates the laws of physics!" (I will never live that down.) - Jun 01, 2010.
Listen to an Internet choir: lush! - May 22, 2010.
Craig Venter is utterly amazing! - Feb 23, 2010.
Waving the flag for the right reasons - Jan 25, 2010.
Cheating on a metaphysics exam - Jan 23, 2010.
The wisdom of Mark Twain - Jan 14, 2010.
Abiogenesis or Creation? - Dec 29, 2009.
Bacteria talk to each other ... new approach to antibiotics?
- Jan 02, 2020.
Poetry- Jan 21, 2021.
Our Way Forward - Apr 14, 2017.
I shall to sleep - Mar 18, 2015.
Breathing - Oct 14, 2013.
Unrequited feast - Jun 16, 2011.
Evensong - Sep 28, 2010.
I hear America singing - Sep 14, 2010.
Unrequited feast - Aug 16, 2010.
Evensong - Aug 13, 2010.
haiku - Aug 13, 2010.
haiku - Aug 12, 2010.
haiku - Aug 12, 2010.
haiku
- Jan 21, 2021.
Reviews- Jun 01, 2020.
Cross the Great Divide - Apr 29, 2020.
Honest Jim - Apr 24, 2020.
Wide of the Mark - Mar 27, 2020.
Gamow on Gravity - Mar 25, 2020.
The Dark Lady of DNA - Feb 04, 2020.
Augustine redux - Oct 27, 2019.
fin de siècle German optimism - Aug 19, 2019.
Short and sweet - May 30, 2019.
Sprinting down the Colorado - Feb 01, 2019.
Visualizing Relativity - Jan 05, 2019.
Entropy is so simple - Nov 30, 2018.
Pandora has many boxes - Nov 19, 2018.
Persistent kindness - Nov 16, 2018.
Celebrating reading - Nov 02, 2018.
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun - Jun 27, 2018.
A Finch in Time - Mar 26, 2018.
Ordinary Overuse of Genius - Feb 12, 2018.
The Heart of Tolstoy - Feb 11, 2018.
The Department of Public Works - Feb 08, 2018.
The lonely warrior - Jan 31, 2018.
Ever England - Jan 14, 2018.
Laconic Love - Jan 07, 2018.
Too simply pure - Dec 26, 2017.
Diner: A movie that never gets old - Dec 21, 2017.
Reforming progress - Dec 14, 2017.
Band of Brothers: A movie that never gets old - Oct 15, 2017.
The gestation of Christianity - Oct 09, 2017.
Evolution and Truth - Aug 07, 2017.
Kafka comes to Argentina - Mar 22, 2017.
Is truculence alienation? - Mar 15, 2017.
Shut Up, Legs! - Mar 14, 2017.
Are there Laws of Medicine? - Mar 06, 2017.
Along the Way with Britt Towery - Sep 27, 2016.
The Naturalist - Sep 18, 2016.
Looking back at O. J. - Jul 05, 2016.
Marooned on Mars - Jun 23, 2016.
The smartest Nazi - Dec 11, 2015.
Stuck at twelve - Nov 06, 2015.
Napoleon - Jul 04, 2015.
Is the Lost Cause finally getting lost? - Mar 18, 2015.
A good man cannot be found - Mar 05, 2015.
Heart out of darkness - Feb 27, 2015.
Broadway Danny Rose: A movie that never gets old - Feb 15, 2015.
Trent: Too little, too late - Dec 10, 2014.
The physical sublety of life - Dec 09, 2014.
Hieronymus Bosch in L.A. - Nov 29, 2014.
So slender a thread - Nov 02, 2014.
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors? - Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries - Oct 22, 2014.
Halting steps to soul freedom - Sep 15, 2014.
Candide in Maryland - Sep 05, 2014.
The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson - Aug 10, 2014.
Paul, simply - Jul 07, 2014.
The burden of combat - Jun 05, 2014.
The Origins of Modern Science - Apr 26, 2014.
Days of Our Lives has an opening on their writing staff - Mar 17, 2014.
Movies that never seem to get old - Mar 02, 2014.
Nightmares in L.A. - Feb 22, 2014.
The origins of modern society - Feb 09, 2014.
The heart of the orchard - Feb 07, 2014.
Is the selfish gene dead? - Feb 02, 2014.
My favorite inquisitor - Jan 15, 2014.
Get Shorty: A movie that never gets old - Dec 30, 2013.
Convivencia is a state of mind - Nov 29, 2013.
The Incredibles: A movie that never gets old - Nov 16, 2013.
Dumb and Dumber: A movie that never gets old - Oct 15, 2013.
One Two Three: A movie that never gets old - Sep 27, 2013.
I, Benvenuto Cellini - Sep 18, 2013.
Humbled again by particle physics - Sep 08, 2013.
The ghost of Schaeffer past - Aug 26, 2013.
The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration - May 14, 2013.
Ben-Hur: A movie that never gets old - May 06, 2013.
Hearts and minds - Mar 11, 2013.
The Jerk: A movie that never gets old - Jan 20, 2013.
Bicycle dreams? - Jan 16, 2013.
How should we then live? - Jan 15, 2013.
Absolutely relative - Jan 14, 2013.
Christianity good, secularism bad - Jan 13, 2013.
The good old days of Christendom - Nov 24, 2012.
Moving inexorably to the Kindle - May 14, 2012.
Voltaire is a sharp kick in the pants - May 01, 2012.
Fargo: A movie that never gets old - Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy - Apr 08, 2012.
Reasoning with Thomas Paine - Apr 06, 2012.
There but for the grace of God goes ... Ayn Rand? - Mar 31, 2012.
Sleepwalking amid new ideas - Mar 24, 2012.
Slavery was the First Cause of the Civil War - Mar 20, 2012.
Jesus, simply - Mar 14, 2012.
Is religious tolerance religious freedom? - Mar 11, 2012.
Swerving into modernity - Mar 04, 2012.
Imagination nonpareil - Feb 29, 2012.
Lizbet Salander, meet Inspector Maigret - Feb 24, 2012.
The secret world sharply rendered - Feb 07, 2012.
Auntie Mame: A movie that never gets old - Jan 11, 2012.
(Post?) Modern tale of mortality - Jan 09, 2012.
Absolute truth is a tough nut - Dec 24, 2011.
The Genius of Apple - Aug 05, 2011.
Moonstruck: A movie that never gets old - Jul 01, 2011.
Nobody's Fool: A movie that never gets old - Jun 20, 2011.
Arthur: A movie that never gets old - Feb 27, 2011.
How to tell a story in 4 minutes, with no words - Dec 19, 2010.
Unforgettable, complete Holocaust story - Nov 21, 2010.
Taking fundamental science personally - Nov 15, 2010.
Wandering Mennonites - Nov 02, 2010.
Totalitarian Zeitgeist - Oct 22, 2010.
Storming the Bastille, then laundry - Oct 20, 2010.
Teach for America - Oct 12, 2010.
Parascience: Fair - or not - Sep 28, 2010.
Cynicism of the highest order - Jul 28, 2010.
Martin Gardner - Thanks for many hours of delight - May 17, 2010.
Too pacific - Mar 16, 2010.
The historic Cheney Vice-Presidency - Feb 01, 2010.
Candid, loving portrait of Dad - Jan 24, 2010.
Doc Holliday's story - Jan 15, 2010.
Modern Jeremiad - Jan 01, 2010.
The goriest story ever told
- Jun 01, 2020.
Education- Apr 18, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Bats, moths and mites - Apr 14, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Ants and acacia trees - Sep 22, 2014.
Life, education, and life-long learning - Apr 28, 2012.
Can precision in writing be attained? - May 19, 2011.
The art of writing? Just get started - Feb 16, 2011.
Memories of Ann Williams - Oct 20, 2010.
Teach for America - Sep 17, 2010.
Thanks to my favorite professor, Dr. Kenneth Krane - Jul 05, 2010.
Is the International Baccelaureate program anti-American?
- Apr 18, 2015.
Family- Jan 27, 2018.
So Long, Steve - May 07, 2015.
At play with Uncle Ron - Sep 06, 2014.
Milestones of our courtship - Apr 06, 2014.
Celia's Lullaby - Dec 12, 2013.
Home brewing: Yeast is your friend - Aug 25, 2013.
Glenn Jaeger, in Memoriam - Jul 28, 2013.
Das echte Lied der Alpenkräuter - Jun 18, 2013.
Opa welcomes Maiella! - Aug 26, 2012.
Doctor Dad ... Irreplaceable - May 08, 2012.
Grandbabies! - Sep 11, 2011.
Oregon loves New York: memories of 9/11 - Mar 20, 2011.
Chess tournament etiquette: Performance art? - Sep 12, 2010.
Resident physicians: Too tired, or what? - Aug 26, 2010.
Louise Watson - In Memoriam - Aug 26, 2010.
The promise of new life - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: passions - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: words, words, words - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: WWII - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: early life - Aug 07, 2010.
Burt Ferguson: in memoriam - Jun 18, 2010.
Congratulations to Dr. Jon! Woohoo!
- Jan 27, 2018.
Healthcare- Sep 12, 2010.
Resident physicians: Too tired, or what? - Aug 01, 2010.
Healthcare and the last days - Letting go
- Sep 12, 2010.
Humor- Feb 27, 2015.
Broadway Danny Rose: A movie that never gets old - Jul 17, 2014.
La main gauche est maladroit - Jul 03, 2014.
World cup philosophy - Apr 22, 2014.
Punctuated equilibrium - Jan 15, 2014.
Get Shorty: A movie that never gets old - Nov 29, 2013.
The Incredibles: A movie that never gets old - Nov 16, 2013.
Dumb and Dumber: A movie that never gets old - Oct 15, 2013.
One Two Three: A movie that never gets old - Mar 11, 2013.
The Jerk: A movie that never gets old - Jul 08, 2012.
Celebrating Frog - street jokester of Eugene - May 01, 2012.
Fargo: A movie that never gets old - Feb 07, 2012.
Auntie Mame: A movie that never gets old - Aug 05, 2011.
Moonstruck: A movie that never gets old - Jul 01, 2011.
Nobody's Fool: A movie that never gets old - Jun 20, 2011.
Arthur: A movie that never gets old - Dec 02, 2010.
Macroeconomics, the rap version - Jun 12, 2010.
"Superman violates the laws of physics!" (I will never live that down.) - Feb 01, 2010.
Candid, loving portrait of Dad - Jan 25, 2010.
Cheating on a metaphysics exam - Jan 23, 2010.
The wisdom of Mark Twain
- Feb 27, 2015.
Modern-Life- Apr 10, 2014.
Vox de intellectu - the voice of understanding - Jan 08, 2014.
The Era of Open Information - May 16, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued (3) - May 11, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued - May 02, 2012.
The Bible tells me so - Jul 06, 2010.
Examining race and innocence - Jul 05, 2010.
Is the International Baccelaureate program anti-American? - Feb 23, 2010.
Waving the flag for the right reasons
- Apr 10, 2014.
Politics-Government- Mar 22, 2018.
Supporting Law Enforcement - Dec 11, 2017.
Apocalyptic politics - Jan 20, 2017.
Citizenship: Making sense of hysteria - Oct 18, 2016.
Crude, Rude, and Impolite - Oct 09, 2016.
The Law of Political Scruples - Jul 14, 2016.
Political epigrams - Apr 30, 2016.
There is "spin", and there is bearing false witness - Nov 29, 2014.
So slender a thread - Oct 22, 2014.
Halting steps to soul freedom - Dec 08, 2013.
False confession? How is that possible? - Aug 26, 2013.
The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration - Jul 26, 2013.
Knives? Guns? Or Disarm? - May 06, 2013.
Hearts and minds - Jan 16, 2013.
How should we then live? - Jan 15, 2013.
Absolutely relative - Jan 14, 2013.
Christianity good, secularism bad - Jan 13, 2013.
The good old days of Christendom - Nov 18, 2012.
The superweed and GMO crops - Oct 03, 2012.
Stepping back from blind partisanship - Apr 06, 2012.
There but for the grace of God goes ... Ayn Rand? - Jan 19, 2011.
How did we get ourselves into this terrible financial mess? - Nov 30, 2010.
Recasting the American Dream - Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Britt Towery - Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Leonard Pitts - Jul 22, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero - Uniting Americans Against Terrorism - Jul 19, 2010.
The Bard of Wasilla - Jul 18, 2010.
Iraq as a Failed Anti-Terrorism Policy - Jul 01, 2010.
The bigotry of "judicial activism" - Jun 25, 2010.
David Brooks over-reacts to McChrystal's firing - Mar 16, 2010.
The historic Cheney Vice-Presidency
- Mar 22, 2018.
Sports-Hobbies- Nov 10, 2022.
Whitewater Rafting Trip Spreadsheet - Apr 21, 2019.
Touring with Ted - Dec 12, 2013.
Home brewing: Yeast is your friend - Dec 09, 2013.
Would you let your child play football? - Jan 20, 2013.
Bicycle dreams? - Sep 15, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 7 from Bly - last day - Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 6 from Klamath Falls - Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 5 from Ashland - Sep 13, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 4 from Ashland - Sep 12, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 3 from Crater Lake! - Sep 11, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 2 from Fort Klamath - Sep 09, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 1 from Silver Lake - Sep 08, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal: Day 0 from Bly - Feb 18, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012! - Jul 03, 2010.
Watch USA v England . . . in Lego-motion!
- Nov 10, 2022.
Book Reviews- Jan 21, 2021.
Our Way Forward - Jun 01, 2020.
Cross the Great Divide - Apr 29, 2020.
Honest Jim - Apr 24, 2020.
Wide of the Mark - Mar 27, 2020.
Gamow on Gravity - Mar 25, 2020.
The Dark Lady of DNA - Feb 04, 2020.
Augustine redux - Oct 27, 2019.
fin de siècle German optimism - Aug 19, 2019.
Short and sweet - May 30, 2019.
Sprinting down the Colorado - Feb 01, 2019.
Visualizing Relativity - Jan 05, 2019.
Entropy is so simple - Nov 30, 2018.
Pandora has many boxes - Nov 19, 2018.
Persistent kindness - Nov 16, 2018.
Celebrating reading - Nov 02, 2018.
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun - Jun 27, 2018.
A Finch in Time - Mar 26, 2018.
Ordinary Overuse of Genius - Feb 12, 2018.
The Heart of Tolstoy - Feb 11, 2018.
The Department of Public Works - Feb 08, 2018.
The lonely warrior - Jan 31, 2018.
Ever England - Jan 14, 2018.
Laconic Love - Jan 07, 2018.
Too simply pure - Oct 15, 2017.
The gestation of Christianity - Oct 09, 2017.
Evolution and Truth - Aug 07, 2017.
Kafka comes to Argentina - Mar 15, 2017.
Shut Up, Legs! - Mar 14, 2017.
Are there Laws of Medicine? - Mar 06, 2017.
Along the Way with Britt Towery - Sep 27, 2016.
The Naturalist - Jul 05, 2016.
Marooned on Mars - Jun 23, 2016.
The smartest Nazi - Dec 11, 2015.
Stuck at twelve - Nov 06, 2015.
Napoleon - Mar 18, 2015.
A good man cannot be found - Mar 05, 2015.
Heart out of darkness - Feb 15, 2015.
Trent: Too little, too late - Dec 10, 2014.
The physical sublety of life - Dec 09, 2014.
Hieronymus Bosch in L.A. - Nov 29, 2014.
So slender a thread - Nov 02, 2014.
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors? - Nov 01, 2014.
The Last Kingdom - Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries - Oct 22, 2014.
Halting steps to soul freedom - Sep 15, 2014.
Candide in Maryland - Sep 05, 2014.
The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson - Aug 10, 2014.
Paul, simply - Jul 07, 2014.
The burden of combat - Jun 05, 2014.
The Origins of Modern Science - Mar 02, 2014.
Nightmares in L.A. - Feb 22, 2014.
The origins of modern society - Feb 09, 2014.
The heart of the orchard - Feb 02, 2014.
My favorite inquisitor - Dec 30, 2013.
Convivencia is a state of mind - Sep 27, 2013.
I, Benvenuto Cellini - Sep 18, 2013.
Humbled again by particle physics - Sep 08, 2013.
The ghost of Schaeffer past - Aug 26, 2013.
The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration - May 06, 2013.
Hearts and minds - Jan 16, 2013.
How should we then live? - Jan 15, 2013.
Absolutely relative - Jan 14, 2013.
Christianity good, secularism bad - Jan 13, 2013.
The good old days of Christendom - Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy - Apr 08, 2012.
Reasoning with Thomas Paine - Apr 06, 2012.
There but for the grace of God goes ... Ayn Rand? - Mar 31, 2012.
Sleepwalking amid new ideas - Mar 24, 2012.
Slavery was the First Cause of the Civil War - Mar 20, 2012.
Jesus, simply - Mar 14, 2012.
Is religious tolerance religious freedom? - Mar 11, 2012.
Swerving into modernity - Mar 04, 2012.
Imagination nonpareil - Feb 29, 2012.
Lizbet Salander, meet Inspector Maigret - Feb 24, 2012.
The secret world sharply rendered - Jan 11, 2012.
(Post?) Modern tale of mortality - Dec 24, 2011.
The Genius of Apple - Dec 19, 2010.
Unforgettable, complete Holocaust story - Nov 21, 2010.
Taking fundamental science personally - Nov 15, 2010.
Wandering Mennonites - Nov 02, 2010.
Totalitarian Zeitgeist - Oct 22, 2010.
Storming the Bastille, then laundry - Oct 20, 2010.
Teach for America - Oct 12, 2010.
Parascience: Fair - or not - Sep 28, 2010.
Cynicism of the highest order - May 17, 2010.
Too pacific - Mar 16, 2010.
The historic Cheney Vice-Presidency - Feb 01, 2010.
Candid, loving portrait of Dad - Jan 24, 2010.
Doc Holliday's story - Jan 15, 2010.
Modern Jeremiad
- Jan 21, 2021.
Cold war soldier memoirs- Apr 21, 2019.
Touring with Ted - Mar 18, 2015.
Breathing - Mar 30, 2014.
Paris before the age of parkour - Apr 05, 2011.
Here's the Thing about equal rights - Mar 05, 2011.
Carole King's Tapestry, still in my heart - Feb 20, 2011.
You can't go home again . . . to Husterhöh Kaserne
- Apr 21, 2019.
Cycle Oregon- Sep 15, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 7 from Bly - last day - Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 6 from Klamath Falls - Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 5 from Ashland - Sep 13, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 4 from Ashland - Sep 12, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 3 from Crater Lake! - Sep 11, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 2 from Fort Klamath - Sep 09, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 1 from Silver Lake - Sep 08, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal: Day 0 from Bly - Feb 18, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012!
- Sep 15, 2012.
Ferguson family memoirs- Mar 02, 2015.
Memories of Shelby Ferguson - Oct 07, 2014.
Resident artist - Sep 12, 2010.
Hope against hope: Immortality and illusion - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: passions - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: words, words, words - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: WWII - Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: early life - Aug 07, 2010.
Burt Ferguson: in memoriam
- Mar 02, 2015.
Jackson High School memoirs
Miscellany- May 03, 2019.
Archives - Nov 29, 2014.
Categories - Oct 30, 2014.
Reading Lists - Oct 26, 2014.
My Commonplace Book
- May 03, 2019.
Oregon State University memoirs- Apr 18, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Bats, moths and mites - Apr 14, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Ants and acacia trees - Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries - Sep 17, 2010.
Thanks to my favorite professor, Dr. Kenneth Krane
- Apr 18, 2015.
Popular- Mar 25, 2020.
The Dark Lady of DNA - Apr 18, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Bats, moths and mites - Nov 02, 2014.
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors? - Jun 05, 2014.
The Origins of Modern Science - Nov 21, 2013.
Fuzziness is all - Jul 28, 2013.
Das echte Lied der Alpenkräuter - May 17, 2012.
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much - Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy - Feb 20, 2011.
You can't go home again . . . to Husterhöh Kaserne - Sep 05, 2010.
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million
- Mar 25, 2020.
Wiebe family memoirs- Jan 06, 2025.
Music man - Feb 12, 2024.
Remembering my Dad - Jan 03, 2024.
A Mighty Carpenter - Jul 15, 2023.
The joy of making music - Jan 27, 2018.
So Long, Steve - May 07, 2015.
At play with Uncle Ron - Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries - Oct 07, 2014.
Resident artist - Sep 06, 2014.
Milestones of our courtship - Apr 06, 2014.
Celia's Lullaby - Dec 12, 2013.
Home brewing: Yeast is your friend - Nov 03, 2013.
AVID teacher - Aug 25, 2013.
Glenn Jaeger, in Memoriam - Jul 28, 2013.
Das echte Lied der Alpenkräuter - Jun 18, 2013.
Opa welcomes Maiella! - Aug 26, 2012.
Doctor Dad ... Irreplaceable - May 17, 2012.
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much - May 08, 2012.
Grandbabies! - Sep 11, 2011.
Oregon loves New York: memories of 9/11 - Mar 20, 2011.
Chess tournament etiquette: Performance art? - Sep 05, 2010.
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million - Aug 26, 2010.
The promise of new life - Jun 18, 2010.
Congratulations to Dr. Jon! Woohoo! - Jun 12, 2010.
"Superman violates the laws of physics!" (I will never live that down.)
- Jan 06, 2025.