11 Ergebnisse.

Moral Imperative - This little book is based on the premise that health care should be a right not just a commodity. It should be like fire protection, police protection, clean water and other services provided by most "civilized" countries. It should be equally available to all citizens. It is a moral imperative. Underlying Theme - Despite the moral imperative, health care is being treated as a commodity. Not only does this create ethical ...

About stuff (which can be material or immaterial), desire (resulting from need or greed) and collapse. A collapse happens when desire exceeds stuff and stuff runs out. In the terms of this book, infinity is crossed. The collapse can be visualized as an asymptotic curve jumping nothing. If the stuff is important, the collapse is important. There are two ways to avoid a collapse - reduce demand or increase the supply of stuff. Crossing Infinity ...

Poems about science and 3:00 AM at the Waffle House. Essays about science, Zen, the sacred and the profane and toilets.

Essays and poems written in 2011. The Tonal is everything there is, the Nagual is everything else (with apologies to Carlos Castaneda - may he rest in peace).

Back and forth across the Mississippi past 2, 000 miles of corn. Into Quebec as far North the road goes. Then Hearst. There are no left turns. That is the wilderness. 4570.3 miles of travel. 15 states. 2 providences. Some dirt roads, stuffed wolves, moose and local cafes. The best looking hostess in the world. A simulated gun fight on Main Street at 12:00 AM with live bullets (while Bob sleeps). Getting lost. Faced down by a deer. Wild ride on...

We go to Nova Scotia in 2010 not long after our wives died. We are sporting old men in Bob's Z4 convertible. Starting in North Carolina, we go through all the New England states. We see mansions in Connecticut and shacks in Maine. We see unbelievable landscapes in Cape Breton and the Lik-a-Chik fast food joint, which, for some reason is included in the name of this book. We get stopped by Mounties coming into Canada. There are stor...

Why ?It's the end times - the apocalypse. Events tumble forth.An impeachment happened. An election might.Covid-19 comes on little cat feet.A sign in the middle of a Kansas corn field reads:"Atlas Missile Silo Converted into Survival Condos."There might be a war. Trump's hardcore base is looking for the elite who snubbed Granny.(But it isn't all bad. An old friend says let's drive to Buffalo this summer. And a girl from 60 years ago is doing a ...

This is a book-thing. I?ll call it a book. The book wrote itself. I was a filter for whatever was inside me.All parts of the book thing deal in one way or another with notions of correctness and class. This is the theme. Rednecks have a hard time with such a theme. The more we are pushed, the less likely we are to follow. The book is divided into parts.?Describing things to know in order to deal with the rest of the book and even more things. ...

A short memoir in three parts. HISTORY is about the author and some characters he has known (a transvestite, an entrepreneur, a rocket scientist, a beatnik, a martial artist, a movie star, and a fool, to name a few). These stories, taking place from 1945 to 1961, are generally true. PRE-HISTORY is about the author's parents and grandparents. Occurring before 1945, these stories are generally not true, or are at least imagined. It is through th...

The story of an old man transported back in time to relive his life and participate in history, becoming a ghost in his own machine and the machines of others. The events shift between 1941 to 2010, culminating in Dealey Plaza on November 23, 1963.

Stories, essays, and pictures about my experiences on the underside of technical writing. The events took place at Cardinal Associates and Burroughs from 1971 to 1981. To an outside observer things would have looked pretty tame, shaggy haired young people and serious seeming older people trying to make money and do significant work. However, as I note in "Fear and Loathing With Bill and Tom in NYC", which happened in the 1973, beneath the surf...