On Voluminous Trance Channeling, Camouflaged Dire Outcomes and Things that go Bump in the Light
Region: IowaTheme song, I Wish I Knew, from defunct early 1990s TV series, The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, starring Sharon Gless: Livin' in time, and feelin' every moment Should I walk into tomorrow, and never look behi... more
Views: 956The Ostrich Syndrome: a New Chronic Cowardice in America, Part 2
Region: IowaKLAATU I am leaving soon and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The Universe grows smaller every day -- and the threat of aggression by any group -- anywhere -- can no longer be tolerated. There m... more
Views: 971The Ostrich Syndrome: a New Chronic Cowardice in America, Part 1
Region: IowaFrom A Dirge for Zero-Sum Game: Go ahead and hate your neighbor, Go ahead and cheat your friend; Do it in the name of Heaven, You can justify it in the end There won't be any trumpets blowin' Come the Judgment Day --... more
Views: 1148On Today's Sociopaths -- and How to React to Them
Region: IowaPlease -- get this must-read book: "The Sociopath Next Door," by Martha Stout, Ph.D. During the volatile months ahead, we'll need to soberly become fluent in sociopathy -- because dealing with countless sociopathic influ... more
Views: 1909Taking On The Skyscraper Sociopaths: Strip Away Their Masks -- and Relax
Region: IowaPlease -- get this must-read book: "The Sociopath Next Door," by Martha Stout, Ph.D. During the volatile months ahead, we'll need to soberly become fluent in sociopathy -- because dealing with countless sociopathic influen... more
Views: 528. . . And Now For Some Major League Baseball
Region: Iowaby Donald Croft Brickner Fantasy baseball coaches aren't the only ones catapulted into a bit of chaos during this 2012 major league season so far -- so, too, are MLB managers, coaches and GMs. Something silentl... more
Views: 1380Stock Markets Are Bad Granfalloons, and Need To Stop Being Taken So Seriously
Region: Iowaby Donald Croft Brickner Oh, what -- the world's stock markets haven't crashed ... yet? Before tackling the American DJIA, etc. stock markets for major problems in their conception -- to my knowledge, a huge... more
Views: 1065On Running Headlong Into 2012: Stay Light on Your Feet
Region: Iowaby Donald Croft Brickner Per the Growing Importance of a Tenable Global World View -- a Recommended Ontological Backdrop to the Essay that Follows: Ours is not a primary reality. Everything in our cosmos is a construct o... more
Views: 864On Establishing a Tenable, New World View -- It's Time
Region: United Statesby Donald Croft Brickner Hello everyone. It’s been some nine months since I’ve last published an essay — there’s lots of reasons for that — and while what will follow quickly has very littl... more
Views: 2603Let's Pretend There Will Be No Further Economic Collapse: Can We Achieve Decency Without It?
Region: United Statesby Donald Croft Brickner Boy, the new Republican Whatever-They-May-Be are a piece of work. They don't even know who they are, thanks to the Tea Party … whatever that is. Foolishly brazen and rabid doesn... more
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Born in Paterson, N.J., and having grown up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Donald Croft Brickner has published his ontologically-rooted philosophical social critiques and essays in numerous locations/websites on the Internet for four years. An honorably-discharged enlisted journalist (and DINFOS grad) in the Navy, he went on to spend 14 years as a newspaper reporter, editor and columnist. A graduate of the University of Maine (B.A. in philosophy) and a former MFA graduate student at Chapman University, Orange, California, he presently resides in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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