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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.
Service to others is the rent that you pay for your room here on earth.
1750 Independence Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64106
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This is my personal site,
unconnected to any employer!
E-Mail to: erf@alum.uhs.edu
College: Brown U.,
FBK
'72,
Magna in English Lit 1973
Focus: Helping people understand disease.
Experienced lecturer, autopsy pathologist, medico-legal
work (civil and criminal;
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
plaintiffs, prosecutors, defendants;
whoever I believe is RIGHT)
Skydiving
Working Out
Stinky
Adventure Gaming
(visit Li Po's Hermitage) (AD&D character
generators, lots more)
Keyboard & Guitar
"In the Hall of the Mountain King"
"Dead Rock Stars"
Letter to New Associates
The Greek Alphabet
University of Health Sciences
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What is cancer? |
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Dan Hammoudi's Pathology Notes
Belief in God -- "For" and "Against"
Jesus of Nazareth
Ed's Notes on the Prayer Book Propers
The
Episcopal Franciscans
Science Education for the Clergy
William Blake's "Milton" More Good Books
Li Po's Hermitage
(Adventure Gaming)
Preventing F's: A Guide for Tough Teachers
The Ancient Musical Modes: What Were They?
Primary Site
Student Section
Rural Medicine
"The Pathology Blues" -- animated
Dino's
"PathoWeb" Museum
Mary of Nazareth
The Episcopalian Lectionary
Lambda Chi Alpha
Paul Skyles, one of four little brothers at the fraternity
"The Tyger"

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
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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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

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
In college, I went through the synoptic gospels word-by-word,
underlining as follows:
It took me a full week.
I concluded that "Matthew" (the first evangelist) and "Luke"
(the third evangelist) used written copies of "Mark" (the second evangelist")
and another document ("Q"), the latter having the form that was used
in the time for saying of the famous rabbis. I also concluded that
Matthew had some special material ("M") which I suspected was
orally transmitted, and that Luke had some special material ("L") which
I couldn't decide (oral or written). Later I applied these techniques to
the Gospel of Thomas, and concluded that the author had used a written copy
of the Third Gospel at the time of writing. All of this seems to be generally
agreed-on by secular scholars.
My exegetical paper was on the finding of the Book of the Law in the temple
(I Kings 22). I strongly
favored the Wellhausen idea, which I discovered
had been strengthened by the then-recent
discovery of cuneiform tablets bearing
the vassal-treaties of Esharhaddon.
So far, this is the first mention
of this on the web. Again, the
quality of the Book of Deuteronomy speaks for itself.
In no way did this study compromise my Christian faith -- it strengthened
it -- as my fellow-Christians on the college faculty and chaplain's
office assured me that it would.
All that you'll find online against this kind of study is ad-hominem
attacks, diatribes, and
proof-texting from religionists.
I have a ninth-commandment problem
with this. And life has taught me that people sling mud
when they know they have no case. The Third Evangelist
even says he used sources.
Law and Former Prophets -- Roman Catholic source Buddhist thought
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.
Andre Fairchild's
multilingual medical dictionary
I have long believed that these people, whose original language became
the basis of the major languages from Ireland through India,
conquered because they were the original horse-riders.
The Left alternates between blaming these people and
the Judeo-Christians
for all the world's evils. Specifically, they are
accused of destroying the early civilizations
in which everybody lived in love,
sweetness and harmony
with nature and each other.
I wish that could have been true.
Piotr
Gasiorowski's Indo-European page
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.
The
King of the Golden River
Pascal --
French physicist, mathematician, and Christian thinker
Paul of Tarsus.
Paul dedicated much of his life to spreading the Gospel.
His main opposition from within the Church came from those
who wanted to make Christianity into a religion focused on
laws and rules. Paul's own life experience, and evidently his
meeting the risen Christ, taught him that (1) he could
make as many rules as he wanted and it wouldn't make things right, and
(2) he was a flesh-and-blood human being and couldn't
control his own behavior anyway. Instead, Paul focused on the need
to accept Christ as Lord, and to grow in goodness by walking in Him.
We are often reminded that the milieu in which
Christianity originated valued good deeds, talked about love of
neighbors,
and so forth. But it was still cooties
to talk to a Samaritan, or eat with a friend who was not circumcised.
I am glad that Paul was successful in persuading the rest of us
to discard legalism and focus on how our behavior really
affects others. Today,
mainstream Christian behavior is mostly
applied common sense and following the
Golden Rule.
In II Corinthians 12:3, Paul describes being taken into heaven,
not knowing whether he was in or out of his body, and being told
"inexpressable things", secrets that he was not allowed to share.
I have thought that perhaps Paul learned about the Big Bang, the true size
and age of the universe, atoms and molecules, relativity, quantum theory, the
genetic code, the common origins of living things, life on other
planets, and how these
fit with the Christian world-view though not with the ideas of the
Hellenistic age.
I would like to have seen Paul's face when he saw the dinosaurs.
He must have been forbidden to talk about what he had learned,
because the human race would not believe it until we discovered
it on our own.
Nowadays Paul takes flack for saying "A woman should keep
silent in church", "Wives be subject to your husbands",
"Slaves be subject to your masters", "Fornicators
will not inherit the kingdom of heaven", and so forth. These have been
used as proof-texts for political positions which I think are
wrong today. Whatever
Paul may really have meant, his own letters show that women exercised
an extensive ministry in his church, and that he used his pastoral
skills to bring about a reconciliation between a master and his
runaway slave.
If there is human error in Paul's letters (reasonable
people will disagree, for example, about such passages as "baptism for
the dead" or "the reason some of you are sick or have died is because
you did not perceive Christ's body and blood in the sacrament",
and so forth), this does not detract from my appreciation of his
key contribution. Especially, I am impressed by Paul's explanation for
human imperfection ("We inherited it from Adam").
Despite the limits of ancient knowledge,
Paul recognized (by inspiration?) that the problem was
human origins and the impact they still have
on human nature.
Catholic appreciation of Paul
Pelagian Christianity.
Although Pelagius Britto is probably
wrong on a technicality, it is hard not to admire his
"take charge and decide to live well" philosophy.
We know that
Pelagius taught that sickness and death were natural
phenomena rather than a divine punishment for hereditary sin.
(Of course I'm with Pelagius on this, as are most
of today's mainstream Christians.)
Pelagius also took strong exception to Augustine's
"Confessions", with the focus on massive guilt over
what most people (then and now, Christians and non-Christians)
would probably consider just being human.
I'm told that when Pelagius challenged Augustine, he was in his
early twenties. If he'd been older, he might have realized
that grace had operated in his own life before he made his
conscious decision to follow Christ.
Still, Pelagius deserves to be remembered by all Christians
(and friendly non-Christians) who want to focus on
common sense, good living,
and treating others well.
Augustine's "Confessions" are also a great read.
Whatever you may think of the fine points of his theology (or Pelagius's),
this work began the literature of harsh introspection in the West.
Planning Commissioners Journal --
a tremendous internet site
by my college friend Wayne Senville 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
Little
Portion Friary -- Episcopal
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.
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
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.
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
The quality of the Bible, especially considering the era in which
it was written, speaks for itself. My background, especially during
my first several years as a Christian, includes
examining its composition by the rules of secular scholarship.
There is little online about this, but the study is fascinating and
(I find) persuasive.
Mark only: Orange
Luke only: Red
Matthew only: Blue
Matthew and Mark, not Luke: Yellow
Mark and Luke, not Mark: Pink
Matthew and Luke, not Mark: Purple
Matthew, Mark, and Luke: Black
Documentary Hypothesis
The Pentateuch -- Roman Catholic source
Synoptic Problem
Marshall
Authorship and Date
Yahoo! Buddhism
Buddha Net
Progressive Buddhism --
focus on social service and scientific thinking
Progressive Buddhism --
focus on the basics rather than the cultural accumulation 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
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.
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
Bell
Witch Project -- parody of the movie
The Indo-Europeans
Capitol Steps
Battle
of the Sexes
Edgar
Allen Poe's Cat
Hermeneutics
in Daily Life
Rah
Rah Rasputin -- link to "History House"
John-Paul
Sartre's Cooking Diary
World
Ideologies Explained by Reference to Cows
Indo-european database -- from Russia
Did Indo-European
Languages spread before farming?
Guessing about Indo-European
religion
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.
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.
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?
National
Organization for Rare Diseases
Death: That it can't buy happiness?
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
Author of much of the Christian Bible. Our most important
theologian. He deserves more appreciation than he gets nowadays.
Protestant
appreciation of Paul
My book is called "Shut Up and
Stop Whining: How to Do Something With Your Life Besides
Think About Yourself." -- Bill Waterton's Calvin.
St Morgan
of Ireland -- an independent group ("Celtic Orthodox")
canonizes Pelagius. Not surprisingly, a group emphasizing
your freedom to choose to live well
also focuses on prison ministry.
Pelagius
Revisited -- Welsh Congregationalists
Anglican
source on Augustine, clearly with divided sympathies
Neopagan
appreciation of Pelagius
Catholic
Encyclopedia
Progressive Islam
Koran
Browser
Religious
Database -- seminary-level
Islam and
science
What
is the Koran?
Yunus Emre;
classic Islamic humanist who is a favorite of the progressives
in Turkey
Yunus
Emre
Kassim Ahmad: "We must
test the hadith for their congruence with scientific facts,
historical facts, and simple common sense."
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.
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
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..."
I'm a fighter -- not a lover.
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.
Beetle
Bailey "a typical American boy from Kansas City, Missouri".
Benedictines

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.
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
8p>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.
| Jamie Sharp -- My neighbor and friend, now a Navy Seal. | ![]() |
Li'l Abner
Pirates!. 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.
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:
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.
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.
Some of the things I like best about the sport...
United States Parachute Association
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.
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!
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
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 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
Monks of Adoration --
Augustinian webcam
Women
of Denmark No pornography.
Brandon -- Christian man
Insects
Pandas
Bambili -- Israeli
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.
If miracles actually happen, I would ask God for only one miracle: that
I be made a good person.
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. -- St. Anskar of Norway.
Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane?
Because the door is open!
Missouri
River Valley Skydivers
Skydive Arizona
Arizona Skydiving
Skydive Elsinore
Perris Valley Skydiving
Christian Skydivers Association
Parks College Parachute
Research Group


"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 man!

Getting awarded a bottle of "Sheep Dip" whiskey
by Class of '98 President Steve Parr.
I like to program in Java.
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.

Honor
their memory. They left us a legacy of feeling and beauty.
The
Young Doctors of UMKC
Many Episcopalians like to remember
famous Christians from the past. We are all one big extended family.

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