A Practical Guide to Everyday Living

Read the short, sometimes humorous, sometimes serious essays in this slightly off-the-wall but entirely seroius work-in-progress.

10/1/96	Introduction
10/7/96	Presidential Politics
12/1/96	Making Tough Decisions
1/9/97	Whom to Blame
1/15/97	Degrees of Freedom: Playing Games with Justice
1/30/97	In a Restaurant
2/15/97	In a Restaurant, Part Two
2/25/97	Teach Your Children Well
3/2/97	Medical Risk
3/15/97	Local News
3/27/97	God
4/5/97	The Ugliest Words in the English Language
4/22/97	Using Critics
5/1/97	Technology
5/8/97	Playing the Lottery
5/16/97	Intuition
5/26/97	Athletes Endorsing Products
5/31/97	Existential Agony
6/15/97	The Internet
6/21/97	Spin
6/27/97	Operant Definitions
7/3/97	Objective News Reporting
7/27/97	HEROES - Get 'Em by the Bagful
8/15/97	The Stock Market - Part 1
9/2/97	The Stock Market - Part 2
9/27/97	Why Jonesboro Happened
10/8/97	How Long Does It Take to Write a Book?
10/27/97	Marriage & Divorce
10/28/98	Marriage & Divorce - Part 2
11/18/97	Limiting Your Dreams
12/22/97	Whatever Happened to the Five Ws?
1/5/98	The Moral High Ground
1/22/98	The War on Drugs - Part I
2/11/98	The War on Drugs - Part II
3/1/98	The Deadliest Weapons
3/15/98	Memo: Disaster Coverage Guidelines
11/4/98	If U Cn Rd Ths, U Cn Gt a Gd Jb
11/8/99	Healthcare in America
1/1/00	The Second Amendment
2/13/00	Bill & Hillary &...An Impeachment Theory
3/19/00	How Powerful are the Media?
6/23/00	God, Part 2: The Problem with Prayer
11/19/00	The Florida Recount
9/11/01	Thoughts on 9/11/01 (revised 9/23)
10/22/0	Anthrax, Sharks & Probability
10/28/01	Returning God to Schools and Government
1/2/02	Questioning the Question
1/2/02	The Religious Fanatic
2/15/02	Tort Reform
6/17/02	Priestly Power
5/11/03	Spam
9/19/05	The Most Thankless Job in the World
9/26/05	Evolution, Creationism and a Theory of Theory
10/3/05	Civil Rights & Terrorism
11/9/05	How to Solve California's Immigration Problem
4/3/06	Censuring the President
4/4/06	20/20 Retrospective Hindsight Monday Morning Quarterbacking
4/19/06	Nuclear Strategy
5/2/06	Immigrants, Part 2: Criminals on the Loose
10/30/06	Why Computers Will Never Pass the Turing Test
5/17/07	Jerry Falwell: The Terrorists Were Right
6/20/07	The Mexican Wall
7/14/07	Guest essay: The Comments of Pope Benedict XVI
8/11/07	How to Lower Gasoline Prices