Essays Index

Essays: Idle and Otherwise

I'm very opinionated....so, of course, that means I have a Weblog.

Other People's Reports - My Commetary

Serious

• I Remember Hurricane Gloria
• Remember Before You Vote
• Howard Dean Comes to Pittsburgh
• Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson Agree with Osama bin Laden - America Is Being Punished by God
• People as Political Props
• Charles Stuart, Puppetmaster
• Don't Panic - Suicide Bombers, Anthrax and Other Fears of Modern Life
• Will Women Fare Any Better in Post-Taliban Afghanistan?
• Why We Don't Have Enough Arabic Translators
• September 11 - Heroes Who Said "NO!"
• Letter to Newsweek, Comment on "Textbook Error" Researchers
• Changing Medical Practices in Early America
• Why Are the Republicans so Afraid of Recounts in Florida?
• Why the NRA Should Be Irrelevent
• Why I Voted for Clinton/Gore in '96
• Angry-An Essay on the Simpson Case
• Letter to NOW
• Violent Men
• Stopping Terrorism in America (updated 9/16/01)
• Parallels Between Anti-Abortion Fanatics and Other Terrorist Organizations
• Politics and Abortion: More "Pro-Life" Hyprocracy

Dead People Server Tributes and Essays

• Tributes and Death-related Essays

Humorous

• Pilgrimage to Punxsutawney, 2/2/05
• Returning to College 22 Years Late...
• My Performance Class Journal

Photo Essay

• Feminist Expo 2000

Fannish

• Honeymooning with Wookiees
• How I Became An Emergency Holographic Texan Without Losing My Mind and Other Tales Of LoneStarCon 2
• When It Changed: A Personal Look at Women and Science Fiction
• Science Fiction Related to Gender Issues

Webification

• A Brief History of Print Software and FOSI
• Bits of Internet Trivia

Book Reviews

• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
• Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

When I worked at Borders, an employee wrote monthly business book reviews for the Allegheny Business Times. During late '93 and early '94, I wrote some of the follow three reviews:

• Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing
• Soap Opera: Proctor & Gamble
• Maverick

Short Movie Reviews

• Many movie reviews from 1989 -
• Mini-reviews at IMDB (recent reviews * * not-so-recent reviews, IMDB movie vote history)

Idle: Silly and/or Sarcastic

• An Important Discovery About Kenneth Starr and Linda Tripp!
• The Real Reason by Maia Cowan
• Letter printed by Time, 3/3/97, on Star Wars. Here's the whole letter.
• What I'd Do with $3,000,000 a Year...
• Disproving Astrology

Trip Reports

Our Trip to Southern England, March 2000 (mostly by Jim Mann, with photos, links and commentary by Laurie Mann)

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