Catalytic Narrative

("abstracted" from a note to David Koepsell ) By no means considering myself qualified to enter scientific or legal debates about ...

A Manifesto: We Must Reestablish our Commons (a new-ish theory of consciousness as a common rather than individual possession) There is no r...

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I took this book with me to a little island up north in Canada...

I seem to be on a theme of anniversaries, mostly just past. I missed the 40th for the moon landing , and wanted to be part of some flame war...

Sometimes you write and write, and get lost in the writing. Sometimes you fling it away into the trash bin. Sometimes into the ether. Well, ...

I am writing this now, perversely indeed, on a very obsolete, but very tiny and with a really nice keyboard, laptop. It took seemingly forev...

Lots of people would like to have the last word on the big issues. Like abortion, say, or global warming, or intelligent design. Many of the...