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- Impeachment Deliberations from a Dark Corner
- A Boomer's Confession
- Goodbye don Juan Matus
- Impossible Contemplation and Our Existential Threat
- Not Quite Sleepless in Nearby Seattle
- A Christmas Carol for Trumbland
- Did I Tell You I Used to Hate Books ~ I Mean Really Hated Them
- Is Laughing at Trump a Good Idea?
- Rainy Day Musings on My Insignificance
- The Great Philosophical Question about Half Filled Glasses
- Remembering One Hot Summer in Areopolis ~ Joy, Spiders, and Bemused Tourists
- What Did Sandy and Heihei See in the Dark ~ I Don’t Really Want to Know
- David Bean ~ Remembering an Author
- Climate Change ~ I Chose Option 2 and So Should You
- You Got a Revolution, Just Not the One You Expected
- How to Live in Trumpland ~ Being in Such a State as to Be Ready to Do or Suffer Something
- Apple Tea with Musti
- Justice in a Berlin Park
- Death in a Newcastle Alley
- The Taverna on the Water’s Edge
- Life, Death, and Me
- National Rifle Association Contributions to U.S. Politics
- I Hate Editing but Love Editors
- On Being an Award Winning Author ~ How Do I Cope?
- Fatuous and Arrogant Google Home ~ What Were They Thinking?
- Dinosaur Footprints and Alternative Facts
- How to Make Something Wrong Right or Early Lessons in Ethical Bullshitting
- What Would Women Do Without Christmas Mansplaining?
- A Christmas Carol for Billionaires
- My Moment with Charles Manson
- One Simple Question: Where are All the Massacres?
- The American Drama: Mass Killing, Prayers, Mental Illness, and Nothing
- My Book is Not an Airplane Book
- The American Marriage of Freedom and Death
- Three Bangkok Cafés I’ll Never See Again
- Time to Choose a Side ~ Charlottesville Made It Easy
- Fours Things You Can Do for an Author
- Notes from Billings, Montana, 1819
- Twilight Zone, Morality, and the Unimaginable
- The Politics of Past Grievances and Suspicious Truth in the Beantown Tavern
- Caught between the Calcified GOP and the Gruelling Trump
- Chipping Away at Democracy
- Spanish Moss and a Man on a Pole ~ Confession of Melancholy
- Kindergarten Shooting Drills ~ Welcome to the United States of America
- I Will Not Hug Trump Voters
- My Life in a Blue Plastic Capsule
- Coffee with Hermann Hesse or How I Survived the 1960s
- Late Night Time Travel with the Beatles
- Late at Night with Rod Sterling and The New Life Corp
- Accepting the Unacceptable or When May Met Trump
- Trumpland Resistance and the Absurdity of Václav Havel
- Notes from Trumpland ~ The Boy Who Cries Wolf and Gets Away With It
- A Christmas Carol for Trumbland
- US Democracy Versus Voter Suppression and the Rise of the Oligarchy
- Not My President ~ Where I Stand
- The Rights of the Election Losers
- Respect President Trump? Forget it!
- Election Day Hopes or The End of the Dream is Being Televised
- Big Week in Bookland: Books, Betrayal, and Bereavement
- The Normalization of Demagogy
- Writing in the Labyrinth of Cultural Appropriation
- Shot Fired! Let’s Talk about Football Players
- Trump, Clinton, and Honey Flavored Figs
- Dancing Alone at 3 A.M.
- A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Democracy
- Phenomenologist Me and Hillary Clinton
- Existentialist Me and Donald Trump
- To Weep in Winter
- The Art of Attractions: On Books and Writing
- My Journey Through a Google Time Portal
- One Year Home: Calculating my Health
- One Year Home: American Politics and the Art of Survival
- One Year Home: Could be Better, Could be Worse
- The GOP, Mephistopheles and the Theater of the Absurd
- For the Pleasure of Doing and the Search for Sublimity
- Congo Square
- Anglican Communion Embraces Its Dark Side
- To Weep in Winter
- Hermeneutics and the Half Empty Glass
- Relevance
- A Christmas Carol Revisited
- Political Rhetoric After Colorado Springs
- Life in Internetland: An Update
- I’m a Member of an American Socialist Collective ~ Don’t Tell
- NOLA Contradictions
- The Offence of the Poor and the Acceptability of Poverty
- An Open Letter to American Gun Owners
- The Excitement and Loneliness of the Far Way
- Three Almost-requirements for Political Office in The United States of America
- What did 2He Every Do For Us? Balloons!
- Life is Sacred! So What?
- Guns versus Spoons ~ And the Best Killing Machine Is?
- Memories and the Making of Me
- Memories and Me
- How I Learned to Swear
- The 100K Platform
- African Memories
- 4th of July – I Almost Forgot!
- SCOTUS and POTUS and a Bad Couple of Days for the Black Robe Regiment
- Resisting My New Homeland
- The Unmasking of Me
- Honestly, I do Exist
- Health and Safety American Style
- Memories of An Artist
- For the Love of Materialism
- The View From Afar: America for Sale
- The View from Afar: American Absurdities
- The View from Afar: In Support of the Friendly American
- You Actually Can Go Home Again
- What’s In a Story Within a Story?
- A Highly Unusual Mix
- That Simple Fusion of Memory and Imagination
- Dickens versus Malthus ~ It Must be Christmas
- It’s Not My Fault ~ It Was Drake
- Execution Preaching
- I Can’t Breathe
- Big Tex Bar-B-Que
- New Orleans or Bust
- Pursuing Both Knowledge and Happiness ~ The Impossible Possibility
- Zuri Manyika and the Zimbabwean Diaspora
- What’s in a (Bad) Word
- The Woman in White Marble
- Holidaying in Tesco with My Zen Master
- Why I Left the Church ~ A Big Fat Correction
- Why I Left the Church
- Who Wants to be a Human Mascot? I Mean Really, Think About It!
- The Woman in White Marble Gets a Makeover
- One Crazy Idea: Power to the People (Not the Candidate)
- Welcome to the World of Executive Garden Leave
- A Charter for Democracy
- Cigar Guy and Cigar Gal Come to Stay
- Draft Card in an Old Cigar Box and Memories of a War Lottery
- How I Can Fix Football! ~ Well, a Part of Football (There’s No Fixing FIFA)
- Democracy, Oligarchy and a Manifesto for Resistance
- The Plutocrats versus the Precariats: Or the 1% versus the 99%
- Financial Morality and International Tax Laws
- So Who Taught the Episcopalian Lady Sailboat Theology
- Plutocracy ~ Ploutos Meaning Wealth and Kratos Meaning Power
- Climate Change or My Last Cup of Coffee
- Death ~ There’s Something to Dying Well
- Death ~ There’s Something Bewildering about Nothingness
- Death ~ There’s Nothing Pretentious about Sadness
- Death ~ There’s Nothing Fearful about Nothingness
- rUK, Fashion, TV and the Free Market All Down the Rabbit Hole
- Bankers and their Conduct Issues
- I Think Someone’s Watching Me
- The Great Sentimentality Hoax
- Overcoming Devil Mountain
- Music, Peace and The Quest
- Earth ~ A Pale Blue 0.12 Pixel
- All You Need is Christ ~ Unless You Have the Money to Buy Presents Too
- Gotta Keep Smiling
- Junk
- My Baptism by Ice
- The Man Booker Prize and those Damn Americans
- News Rant! ~ September 2013
- Chocolate, Orgasms and Mama’s Pizza
- Cancer Care in the UK ~ Structures and People
- Selling Democracy UK Style
- Putting Men First: Prostate Cancer UK Staff Away Day
- Is this the Tony Blair Moment for Five Eyes?
- Gay Marriage and Church Leaders ~ There They Go Again
- Ceilings of Stolen Gold
- My Lunch with a Tea Bagger
- Hollywood, Brad Pitt and Me
- The Market Thatcher Something
- The Meaning of Maundy Thursday Feet
- Prostate Cancer in a Nutshell
- Joycean Pretensions or Just Good Writing
- Thank You Liberal Democrat Party
- Javelin is Deactivated
- The Preaching Life ~ The Drunk and the Lamppost
- I'm an Indie Author! So Proud!
- It’s Time to Move Your Money
- How Not to Buy a Kindle
- A Possible Solution: Send the Bastards to Jail
- The Queen, the Comedian and an Angry Citizen (that would be me)
- Ray Bradbury Died, And It’s Personal
- Shampoo, Tampons and the Olympics
- Why The Back Road Café?
- Aging, Dung Beetles and Me
- Discourse in the Public Square
- Gazing at Windows
- Get Over it!
- Pantomime Politics
- The Inequality of Beliefs
- So, Are We Equals?
- The Unwanted Mess of Moral Integrity
- Rugby Basics ~ From an American!
- Irreverent Thoughts
- Powerlessness
- Religious Expression vs. Hate Crimes
- The War Business
- Sanctuary
- Václav Havel
- Market Happiness
- The Dark Morality of Politics
- Goodbye Gopenhagen
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