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An admittedly profoundly-average human being notwithstanding, existence solicits Voice, and - scriptum ergo sum - I effuse, therefore I am. The dissemination of my stray, disparate, and random neural firings is reason sufficient for my perseity.

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Politics, News & Issues > Environment (Other) Are future wars going to be fought over water or will leaders be able to resolve conflicts as they have many times in the past?: 2 of 30

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem may need amending; even his "water, water everywhere" observation may not hold up in the foreseeable future. Dubbed "new oil" by a few gloomy prognosticators, water has recently been generating a lot of press, much of it dealing with its absence - and what its absence may mean to global securit... More..
Creative Writing > Drama Drama: Too much imagination: 2 of 10

LOCATION: Subterranean abode of a family of moles. The family lives in a hole on a hill behind a drive-in theater currently playing a marathon of Disney movies. CHARACTERS All animals are anthropomorphic and speak a variant of animalese that is rather conveniently very similar to West Coast American English. NATE: Teenage mo... More..
Creative Writing > Drama Drama: Pets: 1 of 5

LOCATION: Nate's Pet Store. Ogden, Utah. Pick a Wednesday, any Wednesday. CHARACTERS NATE: Eponymous store proprietor. Brigham Young University alumnus, B.A. in Marketing, Minor in Mandarin Chinese. 3.1 GPA. Bench press 205, body weight 224. Prone to wearing T-shirts one size too small. Irrationally exuberant as to his own m... More..
Health & Fitness > Exercise (Other) Exercise versus genetics: 1 of 5
The Fountain of Youth was an Elliptical Machine? Juan Ponce De Leon's odysseyby all accounts the narrative of a man who took his sweet time NOT finding out how to get all that time backis anticlimactic not for his failure to locate the Fountain of Youth, but because the methods and means to vitality, longevity, and even yout... More..
Creative Writing > Drama Drama: Power: 2 of 7

LOCATION: Creation Inc. & Subsidiaries, Pre-Mortal Division. May 5, 1856. CHARACTERS Nate: Chief engineer for Creation's Austrian affiliate. Nate has put together a team to assemble one Sigismund Schlomo Freud. ID: Personified as an impish rascal. Id is hyperactive, aggressive, and egocentric. Think Iago from Othello. SU... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Pacific Ocean: 5 of 17
Voluptuous crest Ravenous consuming surge Wave recedes to wave Haiku on the Pacific Ocean More..
Creative Writing > Drama Drama: A rainy day: 3 of 10

LOCATION: A boardroom in a vapid Manhattan skyscraper. April. Pick a Wednesday, any Wednesday. CHARACTERS NATE: Your run-of-the-mill middle-aged corporate slug. Uppity and short-tempered, Nate has been running strategic analysis for a major consulting firm for seven years. Nate originally hails from Pukalani, Maui. ACTION: I... More..
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Animal humor: 21 of 68

"And WE'RE the dumb animals!" the dog intoned to no one in particular. "That - that is rich." "What's Nate done now?" the fish asked, his attention being wrested away from his negotiations with the plastic scuba diver in his tank by the dog's tirade. "Mr. I-Got-A-Degree-in-Marketing-From-Vanderbilt" just put up a sign: Help ... More..
Sciences > Astronomy UFO contact: Are we ready?: 15 of 48
I am. I notice we're not being asked to differentiate between UFO contact and alien contact, so as long as ALF stays up in the ship, I say bring em on. No, but seriously, while ruminating on potential impetus for the Visitors to grace our fair planet with their presence, not a real whole lotta dialectic answers emerge. I mea... More..
Sciences > Anthropology (Other) Controversial topics in anthropology in 2008: 2 of 6
Wanted: Anthropologists and other social scientists. Location: U.S. Combat Zones Salary: Up to $400,000 annually Please Contact: The Central Intelligence Agency While not traditionally considered lucrative or "prestige" work, the knowledge, talents, and services of anthropologists have recently been assigned unprecedented fi... More..