Category: Philosophy

The dandelion arrives before the world has quite finished waking. After winter’s long hush, it opens a little circle of gold wherever the ground allows: in a garden, at the edge of a road, between two stones. Its name is said to mean lion’s tooth, a fierce name for a…

Every year from October 01st to December 31st, we perform an annual Renewal Of Commitments with ourselves. This is the progress update for October’s first, full week.

Abstract Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Positive Behavior Support (PBS), and related behavioral interventions are not legally or ethically uniform practices. Some involve communication support, environmental modification, skill development, and voluntary reinforcement. Others have involved forced compliance, escape extinction, restraint, seclusion, contingent deprivation, physical prompting, punishment, and the suppression of harmless…

I sent the following email. Many of these addresses bounced. None replied. Oh well. (2026 update – ed.) To: December 31, 2025 Dear Election Protection Leaders and State Officials, The USPS’s new Domestic Mail Manual §608.11 (FR Doc. 2025-20740, effective Dec 24, 2025) codifies that machine postmarks reflect “first automated…

For decades, “universal human rights” have been treated as moral bedrock: timeless, self-evident entitlements belonging to every human simply by virtue of being human. Philosophers like David N. Stamos have challenged this picture, arguing that if we take evolutionary biology seriously, we find no such innate, equal, universal rights inscribed…

An essay on metaphysics, epistemology, and common ground (18m audio) In 1978, I began with a conditional: If there is a supreme deity, that being must be omniscient and omnipresent. From there, I drew a consequence. Such a being could communicate a directive clearly to any human being, regardless of…

In the realm of human culture and society, the notion of superiority is often subjective and elusive. It is essential to recognize that there is no inherent superiority of neurotypical culture and society over neurodivergent ones, nor vice versa. Instead, what we encounter are differences, each with its own set…

The unique expression of reality in a perceived individual, having passed from what is perceived as this life, gone beyond our sensing or knowing except in memory. This is the spark, the ember, the light of the ephemeral, quintessential, that all life springs from… and to which it returns when…

Working draft Human beings are animals: territorial, status-seeking, social, capable of attachment and rivalry. We form bonds, defend boundaries, compete for standing, and seek the approval of those whose judgment matters to us. None of this, by itself, makes domination inevitable. The danger begins when these impulses are organized into…

Tonight, I was having a discussion with my daughter to whom I was explaining the design, logic, and reasoning behind her given name. It occurs to me that this might be something I wish to capture in writing; particularly since I don’t think I have ever explained it to anyone….