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Welcome to the internet's busiest one-person medical site. I'm Ed, "the pathology guy", an MD with board certification in both anatomic and clinical pathology.

As the internet has grown, my course site has grown into a large, free public service.

I'm here to help anyone seeking to understand the "why"'s of health and disease, and to find what's known about uncommon diseases. Obviously I cannot diagnose or treat online, and I cannot comment on care you may have received. A visit to my site cannot substitute for your doctor's care.

If you're looking for something specific, and can't find it here, please drop me an E-mail. If you just want to browse, then it's good to have you as a guest.

When we were both beginning our unusual medical careers, the real Patch Adams M.D., physician and humorist, wrote me encouragement. My pages deal with the most serious, and often the saddest, things in life. But I hope that others can find, throughout this site, a spirit of kindness and humility, and sometimes even a philosophical chuckle.

Friendship has always been the most important thing to me. The 'web has enabled me to be a friend to thousands of people around the world. For this I'm overwhelmingly grateful.

Welcome.

Ed in Scrubs

Service to others is the rent that you pay for your room here on earth.

"The Pathology Guy"


Ed Friedlander MD

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College: Brown U., FBK '72, Magna in English Lit 1973
Medicine: Northwestern Medical School
Residency: Northwestern, Wake Forest
Board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology
Chairman, Dept. of Pathology, University of Health Sciences, KC MO

Focus: Helping people understand disease.

Experienced lecturer, autopsy pathologist, medico-legal work (civil and criminal;
plaintiffs, prosecutors, defendants; whoever I believe is RIGHT)


Hobbies
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Skydiving

Working Out

Pet Rats
Stinky the RatStinky

Adventure Gaming
(visit Li Po's Hermitage) (AD&D character generators, lots more)

Alternity


Rock Stars Keyboard & Guitar
"In the Hall of the Mountain King"
"Dead Rock Stars"

Lambda Chi Alpha

Letter to New Associates
The Greek Alphabet


University of Health Sciences
Primary Site
Student Section
Rural Medicine

Ed in greens

Ed's Pathology Notes

Perspectives on Disease | Cell Injury and Death | Accumulations and Deposits | Inflammation | Fluids | Genes | What is cancer? | Cancer: Causes and Effects | Immune Injury | Autoimmunity | Vasculitis, Amyloid, Immunodeficiency (except HIV) | HIV infections | Infancy and Childhood | Aging | Infections | Nutrition | Environmental Lung Disease | Violence, Accidents, Poisoning | Heart | Vessels | Respiratory | Red Cells | White Cells | Coagulation | Oral Cavity | GI Tract | Liver | Pancreas (including Diabetes) | Kidney | Bladder | Men | Women | Breast | Pituitary | Thyroid | Adrenal, Parathyroid, and Thymus | Bones | Joints | Muscles | Skin | Nervous System | Eye | Ear | Arthritis Labs | Glucose Testing | Liver Testing | Porphyria | Urinalysis | Lab Problem | Quackery | Alternative Medicine | Preventing "F"'s | Histology: Male | Histology: Female | Histology: Urinary | Histology: Throat | Histology: Thymus and Heart | Histology: Thyroid and Parathyroid | Good Lectures | Small Group Discussion | Classroom Control | Socratic Teaching| Physiology Challenge|

"The Pathology Blues"
"The Pathology Blues" -- animated

The Kansas City Field Guide to Pathology.
Recognizing lesions.

Basic Medical Histology -- Under Construction

General Pathology Board-Review

Systemic Pathology Board-Review

Autopsy

Pathology Bingo

Bryan Lee: Pathology Instructor Bryan

Joe Behrmann: Pathology Instructor

Joe and Ed

Dino LaPorte: Pathology Instructor
Dino's "PathoWeb" Museum

Dead Bone

Ed Lulo MD -- Pathology Instructor

Tom Demark's Medical Pictures

Dave Barber MD: Pathology Instructor

Dan Hammoudi's Pathology Notes

Claude Roofian's Medical Site

Physiology Cases

Classroom Control

Belief in God -- "For" and "Against"

Jesus of Nazareth
Mary of Nazareth

Ed's Notes on the Prayer Book Propers

The Episcopal Franciscans
The Episcopalian Lectionary
Ed's Notes

Science Education for the Clergy

Paul SkylesLambda Chi Alpha
Paul Skyles, one of four little brothers at the fraternity

William Blake's "Milton"
"The Tyger"

More Good Books
Ahab Hamlet
Antony and Cleopatra

Hamlet
King Lear
The Knight's Tale
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Lady of Shalott
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Moby Dick
Oedipus the King
Prometheus Bound
The Seven Against Thebes
Timbuctoo

Weird Chess

Li Po's Hermitage (Adventure Gaming)

Preventing F's: A Guide for Tough Teachers

Flat Top Haircuts

Why I am not a Postmodernist

The Ancient Musical Modes: What Were They?


Software

To understand medicine, you need to start with the language. Click here to download a computer quiz program to help you master medical terminology. The file (voc.exe) you will receive is a self-extracting archived file. Just move the file to the directory of your choice, then run it. After it decompresses, to start the program, just run VOCAB.EXE

If your browser is Java-capable, try my Medical Vocabulary Applet!

You can also visit my Medical Terminology Page

The Pathology Blues! Students learn best when they're laughing. Click here to download a DOS routine that plays a song made up of verses written by medical students taking their final exam. Sing along with me in my ASCII-art incarnation.


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Episcopalian Date Applet

Since I became an Episcopalian in 1978, the denomination (1) has never told me anything that I knew was not true; (2) has never told me I was better than anybody else; (3) has never told me to hate anybody; (4) has never told me to do anything I knew was wrong; (5) has surprised me with the lack of hypocrisy among clergy and laity; (6) has never pestered me for money. I say I made a good choice.

Meet the Archbishop of Canterbury.
St. Mary's, Kansas City
Anglican Franciscans -- daily office prayers


If your browser were Java-capable, you would play "Medical Vocabulary" here.

Mind Stuff

"I chose to become..."

scholar clinician pathologists

Despite my being an aggressive man, my interests have always been primarily academic.

For me, relaxing is learning a new computer language and using it to program. Entertainment is reading the classics or "Scientific American". A good vacation is one spent at the local public library.

I have an extremely high regard for truth, and very little tolerance for lies, especially the ones which interfere with human health and reasonable human freedom.

If 47 years on this planet has taught me anything, it's that making good decisions (for yourself and others) begins with looking at the world as it really is, taking elaborate precautions against kidding ourselves. This is called science. I recommend it. Science cannot tell us what's right or wrong, or answer our questions about ultimate concerns. But it's self-correcting, tremendously satisfying, and (contrary to what the crackpots on every side have told you) clearly makes its practitioners more, not less, humane.

The primacy I give to science as a way of knowing should not surprise any persons of faith (Christian, other) who actually know their stuff.

Here are a few of my favorite links.

April Fritz -- cyberfriend at the NIH
Arbatel of Magic -- Live to thyself, and the Muses; avoid the friendship of the Multitude: be thou covetous of time, beneficial to all men. Use thy Gifts, be vigilant in thy Calling; and let the Word of God never depart from thy mouth.
Bach .midi files
"The Bad Astronomer" As rowdy as me.
Bible Codes? My notes on the new pseudoscience fad.
Bible Study

Buddhist thought

    Yahoo! Buddhism
    Buddha Net
    Progressive Buddhism -- focus on social service and scientific thinking
    Progressive Buddhism -- focus on the basics rather than the cultural accumulation

    Since apostolic times, many Christians have explicitly stated that other cultures -- perhaps every culture -- have received supernatural insights. Although for Christians (myself included) the definitive revelation is Jesus Christ, it is hard for an informed, mainstream Christian not to appreciate the faith of our Buddhist brothers and sisters.

    Buddhist ethics are simple -- try to avoid violence, sexual impropriety, dishonest or abusive speech, stealing, and recreational intoxicants, and be generous. Notice that these are all about how you treat others. When you do wrong, there is no need to obtain supernatural forgiveness; you simply try to understand why you failed and to do better. Since Buddhism does not address quesitons like "Is there a God?" or "Were we specially created?", and does not require belief in particular doctrines as a condition of salvation, it has always been easy to incorporate it into existing theologies, as happened in Tibet and among its many Judeo-Christian admirers.

    Buddhism was never a government sect that sought to change human nature through legislation. Its early development was in a monastic community. Despite its supposed world-negating outlook, early Buddhists founded hospitals and did other good works for their neighbors.

    Buddhist monks and outspoken laity have been persecuted under communism and under right-wing dictatorships. The mistreatment of the Dalai Lama's people by the Communist Chinese is infamous. During the early 1960's, the world admired the series of Vietnamese Buddhist monks who burned themselves to death to protest the corruption of the Diem regime. Madame Nhu, the fabulously wealthy wife of the chief of Diem's secret police, described their self-sacrifice as "a waste of good gasoline." That was when I first realized we'd made some terrible mistakes and would probably lose the war.

    The Buddha's teaching begins with what we all realize to be true, at least in our more lucid moments. Our names, our bodies, our possessions, our accomplishments, our ordinary relationships, and so forth are all transitory and are not really us. By thinking clearly and living well, we can start removing illusions and senseless attachments. Buddhism teaches that real happiness is found in this way, and only in this way.

    Some Buddhists have taught that there is no "real self", while for Christians, it is the norm to say that each person harbors a spiritual something -- not really like anything we know in daily life -- which chooses its ultimate destiny by affirming or denying the supeme Love made known in Christ. Both faiths agree that our life in this world is not of ultimate concern (though our decisions made here may well be), and that only the life of the spirit has real value. So perhaps they are really saying the same thing.

    "Nirvana", the Buddhist goal, means "cessation". Some people have said that for Buddhists, the world of our experiences is a sort of disagreeable movie that we leave only with great difficulty. Other Buddhists have told me this is wrong, and that "nirvana" is simply the end of hatred, lust, greed, and ignorance, and the surprising joy we find when these cease. Freed from the petty concerns of life, the enlightened Buddhist becomes a minister to others in this world and the worlds beyond this life. For such a "bodhisattva", life in the world is nirvana.

    Many people in many different cultures -- not just Buddhists -- have said that real happiness is something we discover when, and only when, we detach ourselves emotionally from the ordinary preoccupations of life. Those who claim to have experienced it say it is a big surprise. These claims are so common and similar that even a secularist might think they could be true. A practicing Buddhist might look forward to life without passions. A Christian would look instead to being filled with unselfish love for others, no matter how undeserving. I wonder whether these could be the same.

    Years ago, I read an article in a medical journal comparing the effectiveness of Christian and Buddhist pastors in preparing condemned criminals for execution. Imagine facing this yourself. Then consider someone asking you, "Uh... just exactly what do you think you're going to miss out on?" The latter message is both Buddhist and Biblical, and it was by far the most effective.

    Post-Vatican II Christians are fond of using the term "anonymous Christians" for all persons of good will, believing that they have unknowingly but truly accepted Christ as Lord and Savior. Whatever others may think of this, one of the questions I'm looking forward to having answered in heaven is whether a saint is the same as a bodhisattva.

        Let nothing trouble you, nothing frighten you.
        God never changes. All else passes away.
        Patient endurance accomplishes everything.
        If you have God, you lack nothing.
        Only God is enough.
              -- Theresa of Avila

Chess variants

My name in Chinese Chinese Dictionary
Chinese Dictionary
Samuel Taylor Coleridge the poet and thinker.
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
Contemporary Critical Theory -- mostly people pretending to talk about literature while actually promoting various left-wing ideologies. Lots of this going on in college English departments these days
Deliverance Ministry -- from a group emphasizing personal intuition in this situation
Deliverance Ministry -- from a group which distrusts personal intuition in this situation
Compton's Encyclopedia
Dinosaurs
Dream of Scipio -- Cicero's vision of human life viewed from the unchanging heavens.
Ed's Basic Science Trivia Quiz
FastCounter
Fellowship of Scientists or here. A non-denominational, no-credal-test group of scientists committed to living a life in science as a Christian vocation.

Andre Fairchild's multilingual medical dictionary
Flummery Digest
"It has been said that politics is the art of the possible. It is also the art of the silly and the dangerous." "Liberals" and "conservatives" are represented about equally.
Folk File -- music terminology.

"Forgiven" -- Thomas Blackshear's 1992 Christian painting
George Ritchie -- "How could [Christ] have told me, and I not heard?" "I told you by the life I lived. I told you by the death I died."
Glossary of Literary Terms -- U. of Toronto, no weird left-wing stuff
Goethe's "Faust". Goethe's mixed thoughts on life and the beginnings of the modern age. Powerfully suggestive. Goethe's Faust, rather than the devil, is the monstrous egomaniac. In one very funny scene, Faust invents junk bonds.
Goethe's "Faust"
Harry Potter -- a Christian appreciation by Charles Colson. "The plots reinforce the theme that evil is real, and must be courageously opposed. As this theme unfolds, so od the characteres of Harry and his friends. They develop courage, loyalty, and a willingness to sacrifice for one another -- even at the risk of their lives. Not bad lessons in a self-centered world."
I Hate Histology -- motivational drama for entering medical students
Heteronyms / Homographs
Heteronyms / Homographs
Homonyms
Humor

The Indo-Europeans Indo-european database -- from Russia
Indo-European roots
Jeff Cox on Progressive Creationism A pleasant change... a self-described creationist who takes care to tell the truth. If you are a conservative Christian struggling with the creation-evolution business, Jeff's synthesis is easily the best statement I've found of what's become mainstream Evangelical belief. Jeff admits common descent (i.e., humans and apes have a common ancestor) and an old earth, and argues that God's hand can be seen in the process and especially in the origin of life. Interestingly, there's evidence that Darwin believed pretty much the same as Jeff. Evaluate Jeff's claims for yourself; I consider the whole question to be open and worthwhile. I also share Jeff's concerns about contemporary meaninglessness and despair, etc., etc. I would see science and religion working hand-in-hand against superstition, stupidity, tyranny, ennui, and nastiness, and I bet Jeff does, also. (We're both Anglicans!) More on progressive creationism.

All mainstream Christians believe in the doctrine of creation -- that the world is essentially a good and worthwhile place. This is in contradistinction to some Gnostic sectarians and some non-Christians who hold that the natural world is the devil's work and/or an unpleasant charade which we escape only with much difficulty.

Notice that believing in creation does NOT require me to believe that the Good Lord designed me and my solar system like engineers design automobiles. Pythagoras said, "It's all in the math". The current work in physics gives me a sense of both astonishment and reverence. Only very ignorant or the very crooked people ridicule today's astrophysics on "Christian" grounds.

If you have ever had pets, you know how much they have in common with us. They possess many qualities which we admire, often being good in ways that few humans are. It puzzles me that some Christians object to the idea that we are descended from animals. The truth is that we usually show the Christ Child surrounded and adored by both humans and animals. I think this reflects something that most of us believe. If the animals are our (and His) blood relatives, then isn't it reasonable to think that they, too, are saved by His Incarnation? And only humans sin, so only humans need the Cross.

The King of the Golden River
Kansas City, Kansas Community College
Link Verifier -- helps you keep your links in working order! Great service.
Lord Byron Popular romantic writer with whom I identify (at least partly). Man's man, also "invisibly handicapped". I wish I had his wit or his scores of lady "admirers". At the end of his short life, Byron gave up a self-indulgent lifestyle to be a freedom fighter.
Meet Joe Black -- Hollywood for once celebrates spiritual goodness.

    Bill: You know about money, don't you?
    Death: That it can't buy happiness?

National Organization for Rare Diseases
Nature Premiere British science journal
Neither Fundamentalist nor Liberal: Why I am an Episcopalian.
Ontario Center for Religious Tolerance
PathMax -- Shawn E. Cowper MD's pathology education links

Pascal -- French physicist, mathematician, and Christian thinker

Paul of Tarsus.

Pelagian Christianity.

Planning Commissioners Journal -- a tremendous internet site by my college friend Wayne Senville
Progressive Islam

Religious Database -- seminary-level
Steve Barrett's QuackWatch
Science Premiere US science journal.
Science Friday Public Radio news program
Scientific American -- I'm honored by a link from their site to this one.
Scientology -- the death of Lisa McPherson. A few hours after this article was published, I received a phone call from St. Petersberg, by a man who stated that he was NOT officially representing the Church of Scientology, but was friendly to them. His exact words were, "You can name your price." I told him, as politely as I could, to go to hell. I heard no more, and wondered whether this was actually a church representative who wanted me to switch sides, somebody trying to trap me, a loose cannon, or an elaborate prank.
Secret Society of Nerds and Geeks
Shakespeare web entry
Shaw -- "Man and Superman." Don Juan strives for even-he-doesn't-know-what, while the devil simply tries to keep people ordinary. Something about the "Life Force." Reasonable people will disagree about all this.
Society for Psychical Research site with a special focus on "the survival question".
Society for Scientific Exploration Warren Ong and I gave a paper for these folks.

St Malachy's prophecies for the papacy. I noted that when John Paul I was coronated, he would be "pope of the half moon", and he lived for half a month afterwards. John Paul II is "of the labor of the sun", and was supposedly born on the day of a solar eclipse.

Straight Dope Cecil Adams
Stuart Little. The authors wrote, "Stuart's journey symbolizes the continuing journey that everybody takes -- in search of what is perfect and unattainable. This is perhaps too elusive an idea to put into a book for children, but I put it in anyway."
Survival Manual -- spiritual warfare and effective prayer. Supernaturalism in the Christian tradition.
Theodore M. Drange -- famous secularist philosopher and moralist, and a personal friend. We are united by our commitment to reason, common sense, and common kindness.
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Answers From the World's Thinkers
Talk-Origins Why the best-known creationists are wrong. Nice review of the (in my opinion overwhelming) evidence for common descent and an old earth.
Who Am I In Christ -- scripture verses.
William James: "The Varieties of Religious Experience" After the Bible, my favorite book.
Wyandot Indians For which my county is named. Tauromee was elected Head Chief in 1853.
Yanomamo A libertarian takes the politically-incorrect position in this essay.


Monasticism

Little Portion Friary -- Episcopal
Belmont Abbey -- Roman Catholic
Saint Benedict's Abbey
Bernard of Clairvaux
Monks of Adoration -- Augustinian
Adrian of Canterbury, celebrated on my birthday, is especially honored by students in trouble with their teachers.
Ramakrishna Mission -- old friends of mine; supposedly the most active and effective private charity in India
Mother Teresa -- can anyone with first-hand experience comment on the STERN article? Mother Teresa -- can anyone with first-hand experience comment on the Freethought article?
Julian of Norwich

Man Stuff

"I might have been..."

peacekeeper combat medic
I'm a fighter -- not a lover.

I prefer the freedom and ease of the single life. A wonderfully satisfying job, a good range of hobbies, and a great buddy system take the place of most "romance", "relationships", and family-of-generation.

No two men are the same. Most distinctive for me are (1) my very strong preference for the single, uncommitted life, (2) a need for a strong male buddy system, bonding with a group rather than any individual, with a desire to recruit new friends rather than jealousy or possessiveness; (3) a spartan lifestyle, owning only about as much as the average US teenager, and "home" being wherever I've slept the night before, and (4) my flattop haircut, with its macho, disciplined lines and angles.

I'm told that every culture has a small percent of men who like being professional military, always out on campaign, and never settling down. Ever since I was a small kid, I've thought this is the kind of guy that I'm genetically programmed to be. Comparing notes with career soldiers has satisfied me that I'm correct.

My parents were wise enough to raise me to be a man of peace. My war is against disease and ignorance, and my comrades-in-arms are good men and women across the various spectra.

I've worked hard to overcome shyness. The most important thing for me is simply being one of the guys, being able to be a friend, to like and be liked by my peers. There's occasionally been romance in my life, but I've been unwilling to give up my privacy or freedom even for the enduring love of any of several fine woman.

With other men, I've found that a good, masculine hug is my favorite way to express brotherly love. This was one of the first things I learned about myself in college, and it's how I've been ever since. A man is my friend until he shows me that he's not. And for me, friendship's about bringing a bunch of good guys together, rather than forming couples. I've discovered that lots of guys who share my hobby interests -- working out, programming, skydiving -- are the same as me. Some guys don't hug, so a smile means the same thing.

My best all-male experience (by far) has been as a perpetual college fraternity man, part of a group where all the members are bonded.

This is just what has worked best for me. I won't pair-bond with a guy, nor could I imagine a life of acceptable quality without a buddy system. Different people tell me widely different things about what all this "makes me" in terms of my "identity politics". Anything you want to call me is fine.

Maybe you'll find something you like on this selection of guy-stuff links.


Alexander the Great Not mentioned at this site is that (according to my reading) it was Alexander who made it fashionable for us men to go around clean-shaven.
Angels In art, they usually appear androgynous. In the experiences of some of the mystics and visionaries, they show the same gender dimorphism as we do, only more so. I hope it's that way....
Lambeth Resolution on Sexuality -- 1998. What all the fuss is about. Most of the Anglican bishops "believe that abstinence is right for those who are not called to marriage." (I might have replaced "right" with "best" or "the ideal", and defined my terms more clearly -- surely a little necking's okay....)
Beetle Bailey Mort Walker's site for support of the national cartoon museum.
"Birth Fathers": uniform parentage act
Beautiful Women -- lots of celebrities. No pornography.

    It's a sad commentary on our times that it's fairly difficult to find websites which simply celebrate feminine beauty, without degrading or indecent content. I'm glad to be able to share my best finds.

    The web is constantly changing. Even my longtime favorite site has started posting x-rated stuff and I've dropped the link. Let me know about any problems with these sites.

Beautiful Women of Classic Film -- lots of celebrities. No pornography
Beetle Bailey "a typical American boy from Kansas City, Missouri".
Benedictines
blood donor Kansas City Community Blood Center . This is where I donate blood usually. I've donated eleven gallons. It is a big turn-on for me.

Bob Richmond, M.D., pathology friend.

Boxing. Here's a tough one for the medical ethicists. The health risks are real but unpredictable. Some people, especially male teenagers, are going to want to box regardless of what we say. The benefits are enjoyment and the power of self-defense. The best way to avoid being hurt and to be able to live peaceably is to be willing and able to hit back effectively. This is most literally true in the milieu that produces most boxers. Should physicians push for a ban on boxing? Should we refuse to screen and care for boxers? I say "No" to both. Reasonable people will disagree.

Brandon's Webcam -- Christian man with a G-rated webcam. Special section on how he prefers being single. A kindred spirit.

Canada's Wrestlers A college buddy, for many years Canada's Olympic wrestling coach, Jim C. Miller, was my college buddy. Kindness still exists on our planet. So does gratitude. Thanks, Jim!

Christan Vietnam War Site by a cyberbuddy.
Dead Mike: Survived a skydiving mishap. Good video.
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership
EARchives Sound clips from movies, mostly action flicks.
Friendship and Male Issues
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In January 2000, a small-town prosecutor told a courtroom that this link was to a grossly indecent site. Don't worry -- it's not.

Friendship in the Classical World
Friendship Archive
False allegations of child abuse When it has occurred, child abuse is a terrible thing. When it has not occurred, and you are an innocent adult whose life is being ruined by misguided do-gooders, I might be able to help you. I take some cases pro-bono, and never charge for an initial conversation.
Firefighters Appreciation Site of Chicago.
Francis Marion -- considered the founder of the US's special forces. An early biography. The Mel Gibson movie "Patriot" is about Francis Marion, though he has been renamed and his life and character altered to please contemporary audiences.
Francis Marion -- another biography by a contemporary. This account from a contemporary who actually knew General Marion indicates that he was anything but a malicious bigot.
Gallery of Heaven -- Beautiful women, no pornography.
GI Joe Hospital
Guy Fawkes Day Celebration Rituals Includes instructions on how to make a straw dummy of unsuccessful terrorist Guy Fawkes. English children, instead of saying "Trick or Treat" carry the dummy in a wagon and say "A penny for the Guy?" The term has (understandably) come to be applied to all adult men ("guys").
Hug Site. I like to hug.
Jamie Sharp -- My neighbor and friend, now a Navy Seal.

Joel Douthat, one of my house and exercise buddies in Tennessee, 1984-6.
Kevin "Sasquatch" Joseph , my first internet friend and instructor, now a professional hockey player. Congratulations, Kevin!
Ladies World "Not from Adam's brain, to think like him, or from his foot, to be subject to him, but from the rib, to be closest to his heart." Pictures, humor, no pornography. By a Rutgers student.

Law Enforcement.

Li'l Abner Tiny and Abner
Love Poems -- humorous
Marine Photo Gallery
MenStuff
Men's Health Magazine
Men's Issues List
This stuff's important to me.
Men's Fitness Magazine One of my life ambitions is to get a doctor-article published on a fitness magazine. So far, only rejections....
7th Missouri Militia. Also Missouri Constitutional Militia A movement with which I can (at least partially) identify.
Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"
Moby Dick My favorite novel. The "Pequod" is a microcosm of humankind, with every conflicting perspective on life. Ishmael survives because (like me), he's able to see everybody's point of view. No romantic (yuck) sub-plots either.
Movies For Guys -- movie reviews from the male perspective
Natural Bodybuilding

Pirates!

Playboy. My politics and my romantic side, though not my lifestyle. My mother's father was a friend of Hugh Hefner's in the 1950's, and this magazine -- now mainstream -- is something of a family tradition. This link is placed without apology to either the Right or the Left.
Pretty Nice Women -- no pornography.
Pararescue -- USAF special forces
Promise Keepers Evangelical men's organization, with which I can (at least partly) identify. Although I am not a fundamentalist and am much more accepting of my neighbors'"un-Biblical" behaviors that seem to do no harm, I am generally sympathetic to Promise Keepers' emphasis on us men assuming responsibility and acting with self-respect and courage. The site is filled with positive-inferential material, and I expect that visitors will reach different conclusions about the primary agenda, i.e., is it personal moral growth for its members, right-wing activism in the area of family law, or both? I'm much impressed by the Promise Keepers' promises to be blind to race and ethnicity, and not to commit or tolerate verbal or physical abuse in their homes. By the way, "In Christ is neither male nor female...." and when I enter services, I leave my gender, ethnicity, and anything else that might divide me from the rest of the human race. Camille Paglia on "Promise Keepers" and the screwball Left.
Ramsey Colloquium on Friendship. There are legitimate and honorable forms of love other than marriage. Indeed, one of the goods at stake in today's debate is a long-honored tradition of friendship between men and men, women and women, women and men. In the current climate of sexualizing and politicizing all intense personal relationships, the place of sexually chaste friendships and of religiously motivated celibacy is gravely jeopardized. In our cultural movement of narrow-eyed prurience, the single life of chastity has come under the shadow of suspicion and is no longer credible to many people. Indeed, the non-satisfaction of sexual 'needs' is widely viewed as a form of deviance. Like everything else from the Episcopalian Right (and Left), this is one-sided and they don't define their terms clearly... but the Ramsey essay has been very true to my own life-experience. Clean-living combined with tolerance still gets the best results, at least for me.
Random Country-Western Song Generator
Robert E(dward) Lee freed his slaves long before the Civil War began, because he knew slavery was wrong. My father is named for the general.
Rodeo clown
Rodeo clown school
Safe Sex and Abstinence In the 1970's, I would probably have been flunked for my "psychiatry" rotation for recommending that a teen consider abstinence or at least major limits on sexual behavior. The Left dominanted "mental health", and saving yourself for that one person who'd be special -- or for "single blessedness" -- was anathema. I'm glad to see things changing, I'm sad about the price that... But not everybody will succeed in living up to the ideal of today's Right-wing "abstinence only" sex-education curricula. This site seems to strike the most useful balance -- encouraging clean living, educating for safety no matter what happens.
Shakespeare's Sonnet 129; for me, this pretty much sums it up. Both the sonnet, and the fact that an adult male at the beginning of the 21st century does not believe in making love outside of marriage, may surprise you.
Soldier Kurt -- Kurt Russell with a flattop. I related especially well to Sgt. Todd sitting just outside, brooding and puzzled, while the ordinary people partied.
Sammy Gravano as described in Underboss. A tragic story of a wasted life, of unalterable choices and the web of lies, weakness and treachery that underlies the so-called Honored Society. -- New York Times. How I could have put Cosa Nostra ahead of loyalty to my wife and my kids is something I will always have to live with... All my life, growing up, I thought that people who went to school and put their noses to the grindstone were nerds, taking the easy way out. I know now that I was the one who took the easy way, that I didn't have the balls to stay in school and try. That was the tough road, which I didn't take. -- Sammy Gravano.

    Recent events (April 2000) confirmed my suspicion that Mr. Gravano was allowed to survive because he was still engaging in massive criminal misbehavior, and that his whole repentance was questionable at best.


Tony Donley -- Kansas City buddy
Trinity Episcopal Church, where my college buddy Tom "Trench" Momberg recently turned up in my own backyard.
UN Peacekeepers -- How can you keep the peace when there is no peace to keep?
Union Army. I like to mention that 183,000 people, mostly white males, died fighting to free the slaves. Nowadays Americans across the political spectrum usually say to me, "I never thought of it that way." My male-line great-great grandfather is Colonel David Friedlander, who raised a company of volunteers from Albany, New York, and was wounded at Fredericksburg near the "sunken road".

Decent Webcams

Women of Denmark No pornography.
Yahoo Pro-Life List
Yusuf and Zuleika -- the happy ending to the story of Potiphar's wife, as told by the Moslem poet Jami.
ZDXi Lots to remember, mostly good. "The world changes, and we change with it." Their exemplar is now Wile E. Coyote.


Rockefeller Chapel

Rockefeller Chapel, on the University of Chicago campus. It was here that I first identified myself, at age 17, as a mainstream Christian.

Then as now, it seemed a reasonable decision. I based it on:

  • the obvious quality of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures;
  • the amazing impact for good that the gospel has on individuals and on the world;
  • and a few surprising things that I think I've seen but cannot explain in terms of natural science.

I have a very high regard for truth. If you can honestly say that your experience has been different from mine, then you should conclude that my decision was a bad one. But over thirty years later, I have found no reason think I was wrong.

Through the rest of a stormy life, this decision has made all the difference. I'm no saint, but I find I have less to be sorry for nowadays, and the help I've needed has sometimes come in the most surprising ways.

Heaven begins in this life -- with a shifting of your personal focus toward kindness, repentance, humility, forgiveness, and trying (you won't succeed fully) to love others as Christ loves us.

Hell also begins in this life, with the decision to focus on greed, sensuality, and/or hate.

Mainstream Christianity gives you very few rules to follow. Instead, it's about a relationship -- like a marriage (the foremost New Testament comparison.) The doctrines which a new Christian accepts (partly on faith) are only what's required to make that relationship possible and meaningful. And even the Biblical rules all seem to be for our own good.

Christian behavior follows from the personal relationship with Christ. We find ourselves turning to others in love, just as He first turned to us. We find ourselves curious about, and grateful for, His creation. We may choose whatever scientific and political positions persuade us. Since genuine Christians actually care about other people, our choices are most likely to be reasonable, humane, common-sensical, and broad-minded. The Golden Rule forces us to consider the consequences of our actions, and this in turn forces us to try to understand the world around us.

Do you think all this makes Christianity more difficult, or less difficult, than the legalistic faiths? In your experience, which type of religion makes real-life people treat one another more kindly? My experience with many different kinds of people has made it very easy for me to answer this question.

There have always been many good non-Christians. But forty-eight years on this planet has taught me that the strongest force for good in our world is the Invisible Church. Organized Christianity is its outward and visible sign. The changes that are the mark of heaven seem to begin in each life following some contact with the Church. I've seen enough to make me confident that its tremendous power to change lives and civilizations for the better derives from the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

I believe that some supernatural phenomena actually occur, and I believe the major doctrines of trinitarian Christianity. I don't waste my time worrying about the unprovable claims that divide today's major denominations from one another. Many members of the Invisible Church, especially today, simply look to Jesus as the great ethical teacher and try to follow him. My own experience has satisfied me that these people, too, are channels of supernatural grace -- even if they do not (yet?) know it.

I'm told that in the afterlife, the Good Lord will treat each of us as we've tried to treat the people who couldn't do us favors in return. And if it turns out that there is no afterlife, I think the Christian walk is still the best way to live.

If miracles actually happen, I would ask God for only one miracle: that I be made a good person.
        -- St. Anskar of Norway.

Warning! If you are considering becoming a Christian or renewing your faith commitment, the most difficult thing you'll be required to do is to love your enemies. You don't have to be a pacifist or a pushover, but you do have to try, insofar as it's possible, to return good for evil. Fortunately I do not have any enemies.

Caution: There are good people across the political spectrum. But almost all of the thoroughly rotten people I've met have identified strongly either with ultraconservative religion, or with shout-and-pout left-wing politics. You will find both kinds of people presenting themselves as "the only genuine Christians". You already know that they aren't.


Skydiver Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane?
Because the door is open!

Some of the things I like best about the sport...

  • No emphasis on "winning"; everybody has a good time.
  • Go at your own speed.
  • Ultra-strong emphasis on safety. The innate risks, though real, are less than those which an ordinary motorist accepts. For me, it is well worth it.
  • Great people; nobody drunk, on drugs, or henpecked.

United States Parachute Association
Missouri River Valley Skydivers
Skydive Arizona
Arizona Skydiving
Skydive Elsinore
Perris Valley Skydiving
Christian Skydivers Association
Parks College Parachute Research Group

xyy "Karyotype stereotype", in this case, the XYY man. (As with all stereotypes, the reality of the XYY male is somewhat different.) Halloween 1993 or thereabouts.
Dad continues to bicycle avidly at age 84. I come from sturdy stock.
[Harmonica 1] Harmonica man! [Harmonica 2]

Getting awarded a bottle of "Sheep Dip" whiskey by Class of '98 President Steve Parr. [Sheepdip]

I like to program in Java.

If your browser were java-capable, you could shoot off the Lambda Chi Alpha Fireworks here.

If you had a java-capable browser, you could change my clothes here! Rated PG.


Ed Friedlander discovered this sentence which contains four A's, five C's, seven D's, thirty-two E's, seven F's, three G's, nine H's, fifteen I's, two L's, twenty-one N's, nine O's, nine R's, twenty-eight S's, eighteen T's, three U's, six V's, seven W's, two X's, and four Y's.

If you had a Java-capable browser, you could play Chopper Checkers II here.

I made a little checkers-playing applet in 1996. It was the first one that I could find online which did kings. Now that machines are faster, this is my new version.

Skydiving. I'm wearing the red-and-black jumpsuit.


If you had a Java-capable browser, you would play "Sigil's Mazes" here. If you had a Java-capable browser, you would play "Ed's Chess Applet" here.

dead rock starsHonor their memory. They left us a legacy of feeling and beauty.
Doogie The Young Doctors of UMKCLady of All Nations Many Episcopalians like to remember famous Christians from the past. We are all one big extended family.

Many people have depicted Mary of Nazareth in art. I wonder whether this Dutch vision might look much like the historical Mary.

My house buddies, Lewis Burton and Bryan Lee. Bryan's married now, and has moved on to complete his medical education. The friendship of a lifetime, BryGuy!

[Ed-at-work animation]

rigor mortisThanks for visiting.

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