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The original 'odd bird,' my stint as head of High School ROTC included my wearing MFS's black armband just before I turned down an appointment to West Point to go to Harvard. There, majoring in bridge, backgammon, and poker for my middle years as an undergrad, I managed to get a degree in History-and-Philosophy that led me to believe that writing was my calling.

Years and years in the South since then have sent me down all sorts of strange byways of political, environmental, and civil rights activism, during all three decades of which I've squeaked by fiscally doing all sorts of odd jobs, including slinging texts at all sorts of buyers when the market permitted.

Today, I teach--primarily Koreans--about the intricacies of reading and writing English, often as a second language, and imagine a future in which my fiction, commentary, journalism, and criticism finds an audience. Graduate school may beckon in my sixth decade above ground, who knows?

I'm game for collaboration, correspondence, and constructive feedback. "I'm drawn to those who seek the truth, and I flee from those who have found it." Or, as Octavio Paz noted, "He sang, singing not to remember his true life of lies, but to recall his lying life of truth."

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Plant Vogtle Part II
(1 comments) In the whole Machievellian scene, the most chilling line, and yet another bow to 1984, came from commissioner Lauren McDonald, who asks "Can we all agree that nuclear energy is green?" As my redneck buddies would say, "Do what?"

Monday, March 16, 2009
Strange Twists of Fate for a Father and Scribe
A world full of violence, fraud and delusion will inevitably see in the mirror of its children all of these qualities, even as they are simply trying to do their best--to live, to make sense of themselves and a world gone insane, to find a way toward something decent. In some sense, our only jobs, as parents and adults, involve providing some guidance about how they can achieve something decent from mostly 'doing their best'.

Sunday, March 1, 2009
Georgia Power's Appeal for Front-loaded Funding of Its New Nuke Plant
(1 comments) The final reason for not turning over hundreds of millions of dollars a month to Georgia Power from the wallets, purses and paychecks of working Georgians is that we need to consider several important issues about nuclear power that have not been a part of the debate thus far before the Senate.

Sunday, January 11, 2009
Paul(as in Krugman)and Wendell(as in Berry)and Deborah(in lieu of Rupert), Oh My!!
(6 comments) Everybody is talking about the present economic fiasco, but nobody is looking at it as a problem for political economic analysis. Instead, almost universally, commentators blame either greed or mismanagement in some form or other. A deeper socioeconomic analysis is something we need to do, however, and four recent articles suggest an interesting analytical synthesis.

Friday, November 14, 2008
Georgia Needs a Nice Nerd December 2--A Post-Veteran's Day Meditation
This is a combination: on the one hand, it looks at our Veterans Day reminiscence in a progressive way; on the other hand, it examines the run-off battle for Georgia's Senate seat, in which the themes of a VD recollection recur repeatedly, and, for anyone with a pulse and a brain, require support for Jim Martin, which this piece details how to develop powerfully.

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