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Avid reader, jazz musician, philosopher, chef, stone mason, carpenter, writer, painter, poet,humanist, teacher, holistic ethicist who believes consciousness and love pervade the universe, except among self-obsessed humans. I perceive the philosophical unified field to be consciousness and joy. The entire universe is composed of waves, which we surf by understanding. Worked and marched for CORE in the 60's. Built 100-ft., 80-ton sculpture on Pratt Beach, Chicago. Planted trees in Oregon. Solo canoed Illinois, Mississippi, Chicago, Rock, Missouri and Wisconsin Rivers. My big thrill as a kid was building small rockets, archery, cruising my woods and going to the Birdhouse on weekends to see the Miles Davis Quintet and many other Jazz Greats.
I was in San Francisco in '65, '66, '67, and '68. Built Burr Tillstrom's puppet theater for Kukla, Fran, and Ollie at WTTW, Channel 11, Chicago. Briefly taught stage carpentry at De Paul Univ. Technical Director one season at Oak Park Shakespeare Festival.
Played trumpet in many small jazz bands, Sextessence, Nova Express. Played on road tour with rock band and many union and studio gigs. Lived with the Rasta in Blue Mountains, Jamaica.
Drove millions of accident-free miles Over the Road in big trucks, 48 states and Canada.
Currently living alone, caring for four rescued animals, one of which a kitten I recently found 'helpless as a kitten up a tree', abandoned in a city park. He came down to my call, so we folded him into the family. Without someone to care for life makes little sense. All reason is born of the heart. As Maya Angelou wrote, "Love holds the stars in their courses."
Friday, September 2, 2011 Article seven, Constitution of Massachusetts (3 comments)
Article VII. Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government;
Sunday, August 21, 2011 A Republic of Minds (7 comments)
A new awareness arises, crystallizing a republic of minds.
Friday, July 29, 2011 What Bush v. Gore Cost Us (3 comments)
Bush V. Gore started a cascade of costs. The current Supreme Court is a cancer of the body of law. But destruction, unlike construction, ends. The good men do lives on.
Friday, July 15, 2011 the disappeared-- fiction (3 comments)
a fictional account of a harmless little old lady's response to a police state.
Sunday, July 3, 2011 Of Human Bondage (10 comments)
The inalienable rights innate to human nature will always cast asunder the shackles of human bondage.
Monday, March 28, 2011 People of Earth (13 comments)
Message from the Galactic Confederation to the people of Earth.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 "Whale Nation" Sends Emissary to UN (2 comments)
Hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear waste dumped into the oceans have finally paid off. Mutation is the engine of evolution and to prove it, whales have requested UN representation.
Saturday, September 18, 2010 President Obama Issues Emancipation Proclamation and Pentagon Adopts Life-Saving Mission (9 comments)
The old strategy of military dominance and subjugation of women will not work anymore.
Because we are technically at war, the President can issue an emancipation proclamation under Article two. Defense is more about saving lives and winning hearts and minds than taking lives.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 the meaning of justice, in reply to Mikhail Lyubansky (20 comments)
In assessing the failures of the US justice system, Dr. Lyubansky offers a systemic solution.
But the US justice system is an economic machine, not a justice system.
Defining justice helps to understand.
Thursday, August 12, 2010 productivity doesn't work (10 comments)
Conventional financial indicators omit viability.
Sunday, July 25, 2010 Only Vampires Live In Darkness (1 comments)
My thoughts, commented in the New York Times, on long-term US geo-political strategy.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 Petroleum is Pervasive (13 comments)
144 items made with oil, out of six thousand and probably some we haven't thought of. Oil is pervasive.
Friday, February 19, 2010 Rule of the Undead
Our nation has become hag-ridden by ghouls. Zombies, Undead run our commerce, our media, our government and take the costs off their taxes as a business expense.
Monday, January 18, 2010 the arc of consciousness
No matter the crisis, peace, love and understanding are a stock to watch.
The geometric growth of scientific knowledge in the last fifty years is a phenomenon of Nature, Human Nature.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 Whiny Liberals Get Real Pony, Reject Shovel (10 comments)
Progressives, of all people, must display fierce loyalty and unconquerable, indomitable courage in support of their man in the Whitehouse. The GOP is the alternative.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 A National Insanity (4 comments)
Insane policy drives army doctor and many citizens crazy.
Friday, October 9, 2009 Jesus A Terrorist (3 comments)
Humor that's all too real.
Saturday, September 26, 2009 The End of Hunting and Fishing in the Wild (13 comments)
Humanity must now take responsibility for its own future. As the provident, not the parasitic, we will gain the stars.
Saturday, September 12, 2009 Joe Wilson is no Joe (1 comments)
For Addison Graves to run for public office as "joe" is a deception steeped in cynicism.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 For Some, the Dark Ages Never Ended. (2 comments)
The Dark Ages still live in the minds of the willfully ignorant and the shameless plundering murderers of the light of reason.
Sunday, February 8, 2009 Republicans Cut Childrens' Food (5 comments)
Heartless, short-sighted Republicans starve children. No Problem. It's like stealing food from a Liberal.
Sunday, December 14, 2008 Bush Issues Rare Apology (2 comments)
Major funding error moves money from war to community colleges.
Sunday, December 14, 2008 Bush Issues Rare Apology (3 comments)
A funding error has accidently solved the nation's problems.
Saturday, December 13, 2008 get ready for freedom to ring
the attempts of the recent president to devalue our assets and buy them at fire-sale prices are a joke.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 Rove's Second Siegelman
Sudden arrest contrasts with Plame indictments languishing for months and refusal to prosecute Cheney, Addington and Rove.
Monday, December 8, 2008 Died Laughing (1 comments)
Humor that's NOT FUNNY!
Thursday, December 4, 2008 Election Judo
Winning elections has turned into state's evidence.
Sunday, November 23, 2008 The premeditated murder of the United States of America (13 comments)
The case for charging Bush with attempted murder of our people, our country, and our environment-- with treachery, lies and treason.
Friday, November 21, 2008 Cheney, Gonzales' Prison Corp. A Violation of RICO? (2 comments)
Should the Attorney General and the Vice-President have a financial interest in our prison system? Is that legal or just?
Sunday, October 12, 2008 The True Cost of Living
The battle between knowledge and dogma is crucial to our survival.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Poverty Amidst Plenty (1 comments)
Save our local garbage dumps. Send your garbage to someone who needs it more than you do. Send your garbage to the McCain Campaign.
Saturday, September 27, 2008 Revival of "The Sting" hits Broadway (1 comments)
A recurrent gambit at the end of Republican Administrations is the great public ripoff in which banks rob people.
Thursday, August 28, 2008 the imperative of universal healthcare (4 comments)
the brief but compelling argument for universal health care-- indisputable facts mandate that everybody must be in the pool.
Thursday, June 19, 2008 Did everybody forget Bush cut the levee maintenance funds? (3 comments)
Reminder of the historical efforts of the Bush Admn. to generate catastrophe by cutting budgets of public agencies that protect the public interest.
