| Original Poems (by Carol) |
Filks etc | Religion |
| Ambivalence | Comets Are Deadly | The Flaming Chalice on the Swan |
| Dusty and Dry | The DHMO Song by Mark Mandel |
The Wedding of Carol Phillips and Peter Taylor |
| I Remember Daddy | The Viking Keegan Dedication Song | A Really Short Course in World Religions |
| Why I Do Not Like Water |
The Uniformity Police | |
| The Rains | The Long Broad Smile | |
| The Fithp Invasion Song by Carol Phillips and Judy Craft |
| On the space program: | ||
| Why are space launch costs so high? [86k] | Where (in space) do we go from here? or Why do we have a manned space program? [68k] |
Ringworld Modal Analysis
[12k] Structural dynamics FANAC (fannish activity) based on Larry Niven's science fiction novel, Ringworld Long version [30k] |
| Why Rutan Matters [6k] | Conflicting Visions of the Manned Space Program [25k] | |
| Response to Dr. Mike Griffin's Speech on Real vs. Acceptable Reasons [7k] |
The Matador's Cape A book review of Rand Simberg's Safe is Not an Option |
ALH84001 Mars meteorite filk song |
| Religion: |
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Polyatheism Sermon
An Atheist's Views on Neopaganism [16k] |
Is Rational Religion Possible? The functions of religion and their implications [78k] |
There are "conservative" Unitarian Universalists. Here is my UU church's Conservative Covenant Group FAQ, a homily about it, our covenant, notes from a 2005 SWUUSI workshop on UU conservatism, and a discussion of our name. |
| A Discussion of Guenter Lewy's Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and its Discontents [20k] |
The
Baby and the Bathwater: an Atheist Mourns the Death of God |
Designing The Church of Glaucon How do we design a better religion? |
| A short rant on the performance of John Lennon's "Imagine" at Unitarian Universalist church services |
Response to Rev. Matt Tittle on Border Policy Immigration and religion, pt. 1: The numbers do matter. |
Do Ideas Matter in Religion? Immigration and religion, pt. 2: A gamer's perspective |
| Universalism and Particularism Immigration and religion, pt. 3: Whom do you trust? |
Unitarian Universalism (BAUUC) and Islam (CLIC) Immigration and religion, pt. 4: Puzzling bedfellows. |
What happened to Christianity? Notes on the first half of John Vervaeke's 50 hour lecture series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis |
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A book review of Joseph Bottum's An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America |
A book review of David Sloan Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society |
Towards a Periodic Table of the Gods What does "God" mean? Problems with monotheism. |
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Three-Fifths of a
Floridian: A Discussion of The Electoral College Primer, by Lawrence Longley and Neal Peirce [16k] |
Reasons for Supporting
Spoilers: Three Models for Minor US Political Parties [17k] |
Wooden Computers Tabletop demonstrations of the Condorcet, Borda, Plurality, and Approval voting systems |
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Electoral Reform:
Instant Runoff Voting and why you should support it [55k] Here is the Pascal source code for the single winner election systems discussed above [24k] |
Duverger's Law and the Libertarian Party
More discussion of the spoiler problem [16k] |
Election Systems 101
[182k] a curriculum for a 5 hr. short course comparing Plurality, Instant Runoff, and several other systems, with an appendix on the US Electoral College [14k] |
| Partisan Politics: | ||
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The Dog Ate My Manifesto:
Reflections on Moderate Libertarianism [Short version 24k, long version 535k] |
Jane's Law and the Progressives
or The Care and Feeding of Scapegoats [27k] |
When a Majority Feels Persecuted
Christianity in the United States [8k] |
| Comments on the War in Iraq [18k] |
Book Review of Bryan Caplan's The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies [40k] |
The Market for Sanctimony
or why we need Yet Another Space Alien Cult [148k] |
| A Review of Michael Strong's Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems [19k] |
What
Does "Morality" Mean? Musings on Claire Berlinski's There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters [75k] | Does the Ruling Class Exist? A review of The Ruling Class (Angelo Codevilla), The New Road to Serfdom (Daniel Hannan), and Get Out Of Our House (Tim Cox) [39k] |
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A Gentle Introduction to Mencius Moldbug's "A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations" |
The Resurrection of Classical Liberalism (the libertarian movement meets Young Frankenstein) [82k] |
Epistle to the Libertarians An offer of Dark Enlightenment [10k] |
| The Fourth Profession: Leftism as Prophesy [47k] |
Random thoughts on gay marriage | Freedom of Speech and Godwin's Law The difference between ad hominem and ad baculum fallacies [14k] |
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An open letter to passionate opponents of Donald Trump Politics in light of Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate |
What's right and what's wrong with libertarianism The context in which libertarianism makes sense |
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| Miscellany: | ||
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The Art of
Stupidity a venting of spleen [16k] |
Separated at Birth? Mysterious parallels between the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Republican Party [4k] |
As a public
service, I also include here a copy of The Gesargenplotzian Gospel, [7k] explaining the origins of the earth, humankind, and religion, as revealed by the Great Gesargenplotz itself to Dr. Harlan B. Miller, Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Tech. |
| Dark Mark seen over Taylor Phillips household, evidence of Death Eater attack on Halloween, 2007 |
Texas Watermelon Receives Death
Penalty Carol Phillips JKN, executioner |
Honesty, Flattery, or Fealty? The nature of beliefs [38k] |
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Linux Dualboot Adventures Installation, booting, nVidia graphics, multimedia Various Debian, Mint, OpenSuSE versions |
In defensionem iacentis felem mortuum (In defense of heaving dead cats): The Art of Persuasion When is verbal abuse appropriate? |
Why Johnny Can't Proselytize: A Primer on Meta-Ethics Why is it so hard to construct a good moral argument? [76k] |
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In Lieu of a Blog Industrial Engineering Dharma Talks and other short articles that don't seem to belong anywhere else |
Memories of David Paul Taylor 2-4-1957 — 9-7-2020 |
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