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Michael Prescott
I've written a variety of blog entries over the past year and a half. What follows is a list, in reverse chronological order, of all the entries, with a very brief description of each.
Yes, I know it would be more convenient to have html links to the posts, but this would be too much work for me. Instead, go to the blog's main page and then click on the appropriate month in the Archives section (left side of screen).
My current blog : http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/
May 16, 2006. Death becomes you. Near death experiences.
May 13, 2006. Painless dentistry. My tooth implant.
May 10, 2006. The island. A short story about why I criticize Ayn Rand.
May 10, 2006. Breakout! A surefire bestseller idea.
May 10, 2006. un-cool. The UN Human Rights Council.
May 9, 2006. Yes, Virginia, existence exists. Why axiomatic concepts don't prove much.
May 8, 2006. Everything old is new again. A recycled universe?
May 8, 2006. They call me MR. Ed. My guestbloggery.
May 6, 2006. Is it soup yet? Too much detail can be boring.
May 6, 2006. The gospel according to Judas. Much ado about a new "gospel."
May 6, 2006. Sold! Good writing.
May 3, 2006. Presidential punditry. Who should be prez?
May 1, 2006. Question answered. A Randian movie critic.
May 1, 2006. Further thoughts on reincarnation.
April 30, 2006. Some like it hot. Radiation hormesis.
April 30, 2006. Two great links. Reconstructing the pyramids, and finding a missing person.
April 29, 2006. Atlas hyped. An Atlas Shrugged movie?
April 27, 2006. More on reincarnation.
April 26, 2006. Many lives. Questioning reincarnation.
April 22, 2006. Stealing faces. A dubious paranormal claim.
April 21, 2006. Rat tales. Embryonic stem cells may not cure paralysis.
April 20, 2006. Ready or not. Hardcore skepticism.
April 19, 2006. Ha. Something funny in the bookstore.
April 17, 2006. Yawn. Near death experiences "explained."
April 15, 2006. The subconscious. Where do we get inspiration?
April 12, 2006. Yours truly ... Answering an email on after-death communications.
April 11, 2006. Narnia. Movie review.
April 7, 2006. Born again? Reincarnation.
April 4, 2006. Once upon a time. Darwinian fairytales.
March 30, 2006. The Stephen Experience. Channeled wisdom.
March 28, 2006. A personality profile. Analyzing super-skeptics.
March 27, 2006. Hocus-pocus. Skeptics and shamans.
March 26, 2006. Episode 469: In Which I Get Scammed. Victimized by phishing.
March 25, 2006. In his own words. Terrorism at the U. of North Carolina.
March 25, 2006. In the bubble. How the governing elite is cut off from the people.
March 19, 2006. A spin of the wheel. Luck and publishing success.
March 17, 2006. Miracle cure. A remarkable recovery.
March 10, 2006. The Secret Vaults of Time. Psychic archaeology.
March 8, 2006. Telephone. Gross misinformation circulates on the Web.
March 3, 2006. The worst job in the world. Being president.
February 28, 2006. It takes a village atheist. Richard Dawkins hurts his cause.
February 24, 2006. Late Antiquity. A better term than Dark Ages.
February 18, 2006. Two great posts. Recommended reading.
February 17, 2006. A yardstick for skepticism. Harry Houdini pulls a fast one.
February 13, 2006. The Monument. Hank Whittemore's theory of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
February 11, 2006. How great is that? Web searching.
February 10, 2006. Godzilla: Tokyo SOS. Movie review.
February 9, 2006. Fatheads. A high-fat diet may not be so bad.
February 9, 2006. Vigilance. A foiled terrorist attack.
February 6, 2006. Cartoon violence. The controversy over cartoon depictions of Mohammad.
February 3, 2006. Hitler's oddities. Not just evil, but a strange duck.
January 30, 2006. Clones. The pointlessness of arguing.
January 29, 2006. Shakespeare the drunk? Was he a high-functional alcoholic?
January 27, 2006. Meevee! TV listings.
January 26, 2006. The sky is green. You can't really change anyone's mind.
January 24, 2006. Sunny side up. Think positive.
January 22, 2006. Arguing with Hitler. Why it doesn't help.
January 18, 2006. W. Defending Bush.
January 16, 2006. Beyond belief. Spirit materializations.
January 10, 2006. Arrrgghhh!!! Gilmore Girls goof.
January 10, 2006. Tess & Abby. Thoughts on two of my characters.
January 8, 2006. Okay, I was wrong. Box office results for Kong.
January 1, 2006. A little Moxie. Weird baby names.
December 29, 2005. Unpredictable. Sylvia Browne's spotty track record.
December 29, 2005. Seeing and believing. "You have to see with better eyes."
December 24, 2005. To infinity and beyond! Infinite impossibilities.
December 22, 2005. Giving up. Mysticism and practicality.
December 20, 2005. Science and the supernatural. Courtroom Intelligent Design ruling.
December 19, 2005. It's a mystery. Why going to the movies sucks.
December 16, 2005. Movie review: King Kong.
December 15, 2005. Red bad. Useless tech support.
December 11, 2005. Aslan shrugged. My poor predictive powers continue.
December 10, 2005. Blinded by the light. Dannion Brinkley's mistaken prophecies.
December 7, 2005. Kong rules. Prediction of box office success for the big ape.
December 7, 2005. Doing the best we can. Reconciling ourselves to people we dislike.
December 5, 2005. The crazies. Miscellaneous nuttiness.
December 3, 2005. King Kong lives. Internet contest.
December 2, 2005. Hardcover is hard. Breaking out is hard to do.
November 30, 2005. A very short story. Brief allegory, which no one seems to get except me.
November 30, 2005. Kong! Looking ahead at the big Christmas release.
November 28, 2005. More on Yellow Bamboo. The Randi controversy continues.
November 23, 2005. Skeptical silliness. Unsupported claims by skeptics.
November 22, 2005. Torture. A news report indicates we're not doing it.
November 22, 2005. Wow. Harry Potter blows the lid off the box office.
November 21, 2005. Blog list. A link to this very page.
November 17, 2005, Pigs and glory. Alexander the Great.
November 15, 2005, A slender reed. Defending James Randi.
November 12, 2005, Narcissism, scapegoating, and the end of the world. Bob Wallace's ideas.
November 9, 2005, Rome and Amherst. Religion and morality.
November 6, 2005, Okay, I'm convinced. Oxford was Shakespeare.
November 4, 2005, Just asking. What do women want?
November 3, 2005, A clash of worldviews. When it's no use arguing.
November 2, 2005, Psalm 23 reinterpreted. More on Spiritualist interpretation of the Bible.
October 24, 2005, The devil made me do it. Criticism of Rand and Satanism piece.
October 22, 2005, That ol' black magic. Ayn Rand and Satanism.
October 19, 2005, Of mediums and meltdowns. Skeptics vs. parapsychologists on TV.
October 15, 2005, Narcissism's children. More on Barbara Sher's philosophy.
October 14, 2005, Psychic Detectives. Critique of skeptic Joe Nickell.
October 14, 2005, Biology + ego = narcissism. Barbara Sher's philosophy.
October 10, 2005, You have to see it ... PETA madness.
October 10, 2005, Don't follow the money. Hollywood hates profits.
October 6, 2005, Big money. Email scam.
October 4, 2005, Multiplex madness. Going to the movies is hell.
October 4, 2005, Ugh! Celebrity child abuse.
October 1, 2005, Reversalism: a philosophy for living it up. Satire on Ayn Rand.
October 1, 2005, New blog alert! Link to a cool new blog.
September 29, 2005, Living dubiously. Life of Merian C. Cooper.
September 26, 2005, Touching heaven. Induced after-death communications.
September 24, 2005, Technical question. DSL problem.
September 22, 2005, Blogging is for losers. New blogging strategy.
September 19, 2005, Killing babies (and why we shouldn't). Critique of Peter Singer.
September 18, 2005, What a country! Review of Bernard Goldberg's 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.
September 18, 2005, Fear itself. Doomsday scenarios.
September 17, 2005, If you want to get depressed ... Bird flu fears.
September 14, 2005, Oops. Mistakes made in Katrina coverage.
September 14, 2005, No matter? Never mind. Materialism and Ayn Rand.
September 12, 2005, Katrina. The problem of suffering.
September 12, 2005, Al to the rescue! Al Gore comes through.
September 11, 2005, More on Moses. Spiritualist interpretation of the Bible, continued.
September 8, 2005, Moses, monotheism, and mediumship. Spiritualist interpretation of the Bible.
September 7, 2005, FEMA follies. Hurricane Katrina screw-ups.
September 4, 2005, A philosophy for living on earth. Racist comments on an Ayn Rand message board.
September 4, 2005, Do the right thing. Fire FEMA's Brown.
September 3, 2005, A little humorous relief. Gas prices.
September 3, 2005, Enough. Tired of Katrina.
September 2, 2005, Perspective. More on President Bush's clueless response to Katrina.
September 1, 2005, Burning Bush. The president's problematic response to a natural disaster.
September 1, 2005, Bad to worse. New Orleans flooding.
September 1, 2005, Donation Day. Charity drive for Katrina victims.
August 31, 2005, Where the hell are the feds? Katrina response.
August 31, 2005, Grab-bag. Intelligent Design, Katrina, etc.
August 30, 2005, Hell and high water. New Orleans underwater.
August 30, 2005, News flash: Bush's approval rate drops to zero. Bad timing by the prez.
August 29, 2005, Dodging a bullet. When it looked as if Katrina had missed New Orleans.
August 28, 2005, New Orleans, Part Deux. More fears for the Big Easy.
August 28, 2005, Pray for New Orleans. Fears for the Big Easy.
August 28, 2005, Jersey. Mocking the Garden State.
August 27, 2005, Poetry interlude: "Albert & the Lion." Funny old poem.
August 23, 2005, Powerline nails it. Iraq War.
August 23, 2005, Seven minutes of Larry King. Intelligent Design "debate" on dumb TV show.
August 22, 2005, It's all in the words. Why The Da Vinci Code was not plagiarized.
August 18, 2005, The problem of universals. Metaphysical issue.
August 15, 2005, Mind and the cosmos. Cosmic consciousness.
August 13, 2005, Social insecurity, part two. More on how not to reform Social Security.
August 13, 2005, Snake in the grass. Mary Magdalene didn't marry Jesus.
August 12, 2005, Books grow as sales shrink. More on new-sized paperbacks.
August 11, 2005, All hail the Wood-man! Ed Wood, low-budget filmmaker.
August 8, 2005, The irrational rationalist. Richard Dawkins.
August 7, 2005, There's a new paperback in town. New-sized paperbacks.
August 4, 2005, The idea of ID. Intelligent Design.
August 1, 2005, An irtnenestisg pniot. Weird spelling.
August 1, 2005, Dinosaurs of publishing. Paperbacks are dying.
July 29, 2005, Black holes sing the blues. Emmylou Harris and cosmology.
July 28, 2005, Damnation! Angry "fan" letter.
July 23, 2005, Men of glass. Ayn Rand's arrested adolescent heroes.
July 22, 2005, It's just weird. Strange leftist critiques of Bush.
July 19, 2005, Q & A. Writing my books.
July 18, 2005, Shameless self-promotion. My book, Mortal Faults.
July 12, 2005, War of the Worlds, revisited. Link to Iowahawk satire.
July 12, 2005, Fun with skeptics. Skepticism and eBay.
July 11, 2005, Life before life. Reincarnation.
July 6, 2005, The ape wonder of the world! New King Kong movie.
July 5, 2005, Beach reads. Fun books.
July 2, 2005, The importance of being earnest. Ayn Rand's marginalia.
July 1, 2005, Self-esteem (second try). Revised essay on ego and competence.
June 28, 2005, Welcome back, CNN. Tired of Fox News.
June 26, 2005, Get a life. George Lucas and the American Film Institute.
June 24, 2005, Things fall apart. The Kelo decision.
June 23, 2005, Leggo my ego. Small and large souls.
June 22, 2005, Gotta love it. Link to Lee Goldberg's blog.
June 20, 2005, Inanity, thy name is Durbin. Torture at Gitmo.
June 15, 2005, Vanity, thy name is Durban. Vanity publishing.
June 14, 2005, Hickman postmortem. Critiques of my Hickman entries.
June 8, 2005, Wrapping up Hickman. End of Hickman series.
June 4, 2005, Hickman - sick man. Still more on Hickman.
June 2, 2005, Ad hominem, ad nauseam. What is and is not an ad hominem argument.
May 29, 2005, It just gets worse. More on Hickman.
May 29, 2005, Ayn Rand's "real man." Rand's infatuation with psycho killer Ed Hickman.
May 27, 2005, When did you stop beating your wife? No absolute proofs.
May 27, 2005, A big shout-out for Jack Bauer. The TV show 24.
May 23, 2005, The unsinkable Sylvia Browne. Critique of the alleged psychic.
May 21, 2005, Hooray for Bollywood! India is the future.
May 21, 2005, The Shroud (photo). Picture of the Turin Shroud.
May 20, 2005, The Shroud. Of Turin, that is.
May 17, 2005, Scam alert. Email scam.
May 14, 2005, When did Jesus become a punchline? Potshots at Jesus by a TV cartoon show.
May 14, 2005, Thought for the day. One sentence.
May 10, 2005, Stages of belief. From childish to adult spirituality.
May 8, 2005, Donald Maass and the breakout novel. Critique of Maass.
May 6, 2005, How the world works. More on telling stories to create worldviews.
May 4, 2005, The stories we tell. Teling stories to create worldviews.
May 3, 2005, Jobs that Americans *will* do, part two. More on illegal immigration.
April 28, 2005, The awesome power of my blog, part two. More on my growing influence.
April 28, 2005, The awesome power of my blog. My growing influence.
April 28, 2005, Jobs that Americans *will* do. Illegal immigration.
April 27, 2005, Social insecurity. Wrong way to fix Social Security.
April 27, 2005, The fourth Great Awakening. Religious revival?
April 25, 2005, Fair and balanced, part two. Another pro-Ayn Rand link.
April 24, 2005, Commit to the process, detach from the outcome. A useful strategy for reducing stress.
April 23, 2005, The Bible and reincarnation. It's not in there.
April 22, 2005, Fair and balanced. Pro-Ayn Rand link.
April 20, 2005, Just one more little thing about Rand ... Some second thoughts.
April 15, 2005, My last anti-Ayn Rand rant. I spoke too soon.
April 13, 2005, From atheism to theism. My journey.
April 10, 2005, Ayn Rand and "is-ought." Why Rand didn't solve the is-ought problem.
April 10, 2005, The worldview of St. Paul. N.T. Wright on Paul.
April 7, 2005, Switching over. Starting a new blog.
April 7, 2005, "Is" and "ought" and the third way. Ayn Rand and is-ought.
April 5, 2005, Getting started. A new blog.
My original blog: http://www.authormichaelprescott.blogspot.com/
April 8, 2005, Switching to a new blog site. Moving day!
April 5, 2005, The Soul of the Age. Possible Oxford-as-Shakespeare movie.
April 4, 2005, More on God and Albert Ellis. Continuing crtitique.
April 2, 2005, God and Albert Ellis. Critique of Ellis's views on morality and religion.
March 27, 2005, Shakespeare: who was he? Maybe Oxford.
March 21, 2005, Was Ayn Rand evil? Well, was she?
March 12, 2005, Evil. The history of torture.
March 12, 2005, Big bucks. Government spending.
March 10, 2005, Playing with fire. Fire-walking.
March 6, 2005, Julian Jaynes. Critique of his theory of the bicameral mind.
March 4, 2005, The end of books? Publishing doom.
March 2, 2005, A little knowledge ... Deepak Chopra makes a mistake in physics.
February 25, 2005, Bread and circuses. The Roman games.
February 24, 2005, Sin. What is it?
February 21, 2005, An evolving position. Weaknesses in standard evolutionary theory.
February 17, 2005, Wronging writers. How we get screwed.
February 8, 2005, Intelligent Design and the cosmos. The anthropic principle.
February 6, 2005, The occasional madness of reader reviews. Some strange ones.
February 5, 2005, Nasty people. Skeptics aren't always nice.
February 3, 2005, Blurbing. Coming up with a quote for a friend's book.
February 3, 2005, New and improved. Easier to post blog comments.
January 28, 2005, Mediumship and science. The Montague Keen reading.
January 27, 2005, Pal Joey. Why the sitcom Joey isn't that good.
January 26, 2005, Psychic Detectives. The neat Court-TV series.
January 26, 2005, M. Night Shymalan's "The Village." Link to a parody.
January 26, 2005, Numbers are evil. Humor for the math-challenged.
January 26, 2005, Humility is a virtue, or at least it had better be. The writer's life.