The following essays were completed in the fall of 2003. Thank you, Dr. Thomas Goodale, for encouraging me to write these.

Overpopulation Bad  "Population growth is the primary cause of environmental damage." Jacques Cousteu Yes, it's a ridiculously simple title to an essay whose core concepts have riddled incisive publication for years. But since so many horny boneheads keep breeding wantonly, it's evident more, stronger messaging must continue to permeate mediaspace. The environmentalists, while benign cousins of folks like myself, have it all wrong. In their good-natured effort to improve the environment, they are going at the whole process backwards. They attempt to affect change what results from overpopulation, rather than overpopulation itself. For example, I stand on the side and watch as, one by one, innocents are brought before a person with a gun and are shot dead. There is an infinite line of these sheep, and an infinite number of bullets in the assassin's weapon. An environmentalist weeps and cries and tries desperately to save each shot person. They apply CPR, mouth-to-mouth and bandage the wounds. But no matter how many techniques you use, a person who dies from a gunshot is rarely, if ever, revived from any techniques currently known. Active members of movements like NPG (Negative Population Growth) walk over to the assassin and try their darndest to stop the killing at the source. They cajole the assassin. They might try to take the gun away from the killer. Or offer a fistful of money to make the death stop. At the end of the day the environmentalists, crying, weeping, pulling their hair out and making a tremendous ruckus do nothing but to stir up mute, inert concern: the killing continues, barely slowed at best. Those who favor curbing population growth and, ideally, reducing the total worldwide population over time, rarely make a dent in the killing, but theirs is the only practical way true, lasting, deep change can be affected...... click here for the rest of this opinonated essay) Do You Feel Betrayed Again? The Clinton Whitehouse was chuck full of improprieties, questionable actions, and a seemingly endless stream of investigations, accusations though ultimately only one impeachment: probably only one impeachment because there was insufficient time for beltway busybodies to launch a second of third. Citizens, elected officials, pundits, and the international community largely agreed that the Clinton administration, while blessed with many positive attributes, was one of the most publicly acknowledged immoral administration to occupy the Office of the Presidency in our nation's history. George W. Bush was then narrowly elected into office and unarguably yielded no small advantage over his primary competitor, Al Gore, as a result of the taint Mr. Gore couldn't shake lose from his direct involvement in this publicly recognized immoral administration.  I have used the term "publicly acknowledged" twice in that first, critical paragraph. My editor insists I avoid the needless repetition. But it is not needless: his mistake. It is central to my assertion that you are hopefully follow through to its logical conclusion.... click here for the rest of this accurate essay) Stop Whining… NOW There is linear, Socratic logic, and there is everything else.  "Everything else" constitutes subjective abstracts like intuition, opinion, randomness and others.  Everything else has its place in the world, certainly, as has been proven time and again. Generally speaking, when logic fails, we turn to everything else for answers.  But most sane citizens of the USA would universally concur that logic is the first step. The first process wielded whenever decisions must be effectively rendered.  This dialogical method of inquiry, oftentimes negative, is an age-old means by which to, in a plodding, stepped manner, arrive at an answer to a question. Today we face many difficult questions that can only be effectively answered using cold, objective reasoning logic. No amount of subjective opinion can yield effective answers.  But this essay exists not merely to remind you about the value, the necessity, of applying logical processes to all decision making, but to continue beyond the answer into action.... click here for the rest of this necessary rant)

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