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Essays 2011-
2012 April	Your Students Must Improve There Spelling
2013 Aug	Bradley Manning's Sacrifice Update: On January 17, 2017, President Barack Obama commuted Manning's sentence.
Selected Writings in the Newsletter of North Alabama Mensa (writing as contributor, local secretary, or newsletter editor at various times)
	2004 Sep RG Wrapup.htm 2005 April Characteristics of Fascism.htm 2005 May Is Nationalism Good.htm 2005 June Podolski reply to April.htm 2005 July Why God Wont Go Away.htm 2005 Aug Alabamas Gift.htm 2005 Sep You Might Be an Intellectual.htm 2005 Oct McWilliams response to Sep.htm 2005 Nov Might be an Intellectual part 2 -- Humanism Examined. 2006 Feb Mensas Diamond Anniversary.htm 2006 May Wrapup 2004-2006.htm 2006 Aug WG Awards in Sep NorbaMensa.PDF 2006 Sep World Gathering Awards and Memories.htm 2007 June membership dir being published.htm 2007 Jul Veteran Members.htm 2007 Aug Annual Gathering Birmingham.htm 2007 Sep bylaws being modified.htm 2007 Nov Siegelman trial.htm 2007 Dec Io Saturnalia.htm 2008 Jan War on Christmas.htm 2008 April Cristina retires.htm 2008 June marion book review.htm 2008 July Electronic Meetings.htm 2008 Aug RG planning.htm 2008 Sep Mensa on display.htm 2008 Sep Palestinian in Guantanemo.htm 2008 Oct Joint Regional Gatherings.htm 2008 Dec How Aunts Became Democrats.htm 2009 Jan Obama Cabinet.htm 2009 Feb Are You Smarter.htm 2009 March Bham RG Planning.htm 2010 July book review crossing the threshold.htm 2011 May Summary of Travis Hardin's Activities.htm 2014 LocSec Columns
Written After Moving to Huntsville
1999 Sep	All Day Singing and Dinner on the Ground
1999 Dec	Paradigm Shifts
2000	The Three Passions of Bertrand Russell
2000 Jun	Linguistics
2000 Dec	Rave of December 25th
2002 Mar	The Nature of Patriotism

Maryland Mensa: South Mountain Meanderings / Wisdom of the West 1990-1994
The Maryland Mensa newsletter was (and still is) called "M-Anation" since Carol B. assumed the editorship in 1990. The masthead had a radio tower emanating lightning bolts and a font with fine horizontal lines that first appeared in March 1991 after Carol and I combined a clip-art tower with the fantasy font. Carol continued to use WordPerfect for DOS to edit M-Anation even as the 21st century approached. (Hey, it was a capable program.) Carol took a liking to me when I joined in 1989 and allowed me to begin a humorous column in 1990. I changed direction and for seveal years I wrote a column on philosophy and psychology -- life -- from a humanist point of view. Photo: M-Anation mastheads, 1991 and 2013. The 2013 editor was Shelia Wallace.
1990 Oct	South Mountain Meanderings first installment
1990 Nov	Sailing trip and activities attended
1990 Dec	SMM with Far Side book review
1991 Jan	SMM razzing the LocSec
1991 Feb	SMM and a thank you
1991 Mar	SMM March 91
1991 April	Turning Serious. Written as a letter to the editor. Greg Pacek began to write SMM.
Apr 91 responses	Responses to my April 1991 Letter
May 91 events	Some May 91 Events
1991 Jun	April Regional Gathering (published June 91)
1991 Jun	SMM June 91
1991 Jul	Wisdom of the West first installment
1991 Aug	WOW - The Basic Five
1991 Sep	WOW - Some World Views and Their Sources
1991 Oct	On Ethics (and Dogs) in 525 Words
1991 Nov	WOW - The Hunger to Know as Insecurity
1991 Dec	WOW - Hierarchies and Human Misery, or Why You Don't Want to Go to Work
1992 Jan	I Don't Talk Very Much Because... (1986)
1992 Feb	Thinking, Feeling, and the Myers-Briggs
1992 Mar	Conservatism
1992 Apr	Pseudo-conservatism
1992 May	Liberalism
1992 Jun	Pseudo-liberalism
1992 Dec	Circulating at an Ocean City Mensa gathering in October I gathered humorous answers from people to some of the questions Marilyn Vos Savant said she could not answer (because they were nonsense). I headlined it "Marilyn Vos Savant versus Maryland's Vast Savants." The series ran 3 months. Three more columns were sweated out beginning in February. If there were more, I didn't save them.
1993 Feb	On Intelligence
1993 Mar	The Emotion Problem
1993Apr	The Emotion Problem, part 2, or Why Aren't We All Spocks and Datas?

Letters to the Editor 1984-2013
Two newspapers were the recipients of my letters, which were generally reactions to news reports or other letters. From 1984 to 1998 it was the Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, Mayland. After 1999 it was the Times of Huntsville, Alabama.
1984-1998	Introduction to Letters to the Editor
1984-1998	Hagerstown, Maryland letters
1999-2013	Huntsville, Alabama letters

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