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Today's Brew __________________ Ageless

Epiphany at Morningside
Coming to grips with the stark reality of aging

My regular readers are aware of the imminence of serious rejuvenation treatments and where I think we are headed—I've reviewed Kurzweil's books, Fantastic Voyage and The Singularity is Near.  I've commented on the "insurance" angle that Robert Ettinger's breathtaking body of work on cryonics represents—the book(s) and the movement.  I'm not going to stand on my soap box (again), but I do wonder why human consciousness has held back so far in terms of embracing these literally life-saving technologies.  From the purely technical and scientific standpoint, probably Dr. Aubrey De Grey and his SENS concept (strategies for engineering negligible senescence) are as close as anything to breaking through the collective unconscious.... [more]

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July 2008

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  Columns Movie Reviews Book Reviews  
 
 2008.07.21 Morningside Epiphany
 2008.06.23 Spiritual Liberty
 2008.06.16 Reason and Liberty
 2008.06.09 Left, Right, and    Obama
 2008.05.26 Memorial Day 2008,
   Reflections

 2008.05.19 Kleptocons and Kings,
   Part 2

 2008.05.12 Kleptocons and Kings,
   Part 1

 2008.04.28 Free State Flourishing
 2008.04.14 The Blood of Patriots    and Tyrants
 2008.03.31 The Libertarian Party    Option
 2008.03.20 Money Crisis
 2008.03.17 Race and    Consciousness
 2008.03.10 "Conceit of the    Anointed"
 2008.02.26 Architects, Engineers,    and 911 Truth
 2008.02.19 Liberty: It's the Law!
 2008.02.05 Open Letter to the    Law Enforcement Community
 2008.01.28 Brave New Worldview
 2008.01.14 The Lynching of Kelly    Tilghman
 2007.12.31 Coffee Coaster Best    of 2007
 2007.12.10 911 Truth Catharsis
 2007.11.26 Cryonics Movement
 2007.11.19 Unchain the Liberty
   Dollar

 2007.10.08 Balancing the    Michigan Budget
 2007.09.10 Social Insecurity
 2007.08.13 The Right-Wing    Randian Blankout Syndrome, Pt. 1
2007.08.06 The I35-W Bridge and    thoughts on infrastructure
2007.07.23 Demise of the    Jalapeño Slider
2007.06.11 Ron Paul Nation
2007.05.28 Hey, Minuteman,
   Wait a Second!

2007.04.23 LEAPING Forward for
   Freedom

2007.01.26 Save the Planet:
   Legalize Weed







All Columns

• The Savages  (2007)
• Untraceable (2008)
• Fool's Gold, 27 Dresses (2008)
• Sex and the City: Movie (2008)
• The Bucket List (2007)
• Suburban Girl (1984)
• Swing Shift (1984)
• The Great Debaters (2007)
• Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Before the Devil Knows You're    Dead (2007)
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Juno (2007)
True Grit (1969)
The Amateurs (2005)
King of California (2007)
Martian Child (2007)
Croupier (1998)
American Beauty (1999)
Waitress (2007)
Network (1976)
That Lady Hamilton (1941)
Overcoming Resistance to    9/11 Truth  (2005)
Night at the Museum (2006)
Friday Night Lights (2006)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Selena (1997)
7 Men from Now (1956)
Love Actually (2003)
Black Book  (2006)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Michael Clayton  (2007)
Apollo 13  (1995)
Shooter (2007)
The Lives of Others (2006)
Pleasantville  (1998)
Stranger than Fiction (2006)
Follow the Fleet  (1936)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Grand Prix  (1966)
The Aviator  (2004)
V for Vendetta  (2005)
The China Syndrome  (1979)
Improbable Collapse  (2006)
Ulee's Gold   (1997)
Enemy of the State (1998)
The Matrix (1999)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
North Country (2005)
Lone Star (1996)
Bobby (2006)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Who Killed the Electric Car?
   (2005)

All Movie Reviews


  Carved in Granite  (2008) James    Maynard, et al
  Ladies of Liberty (2008) Cokie    Roberts
 John Adams (2001) David    McCullough
 Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden    Memories  (1971) Jean Shepherd
 The Age of American Unreason    (2008) Susan Jacoby
 Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do    (1996) Peter McWilliams
 History Will Not Absolve Us     (1990) E. Martin Schotz
 Friday Night Lights  (1990)
   H.G. Bissinger
 Guns, Germs, and Steel  (1999)    Jared Diamond
 Rivethead (1992) Ben Hamper
 Debunking 911 Debunking 
   (2007), David Ray Griffin
 The Age of Turbulence (2007)
   Alan Greenspan
 The New Pearl Harbor  and
  911 Commission Omission and
   Distortions

  (2004, 2005), David Ray Griffin
 The Singularity is Near   
  (2005), Ray Kurzweil
 The Creature from Jekyll Island    (1994), G. Edward Griffin
 The End of Faith  (2006),
  Sam Harris
 The Power of Now  (1999),   Eckhart Tolle
 Truth Jihad  (2007), Kevin Barrett
 Our Enemy the State (1935),
  Albert Jay Nock
 The Weather Makers (2005),
   Tim Flannery
 Palestine: Peace not Apartheid
  
(2006), Jimmy Carter
 The Audacity of Hope (2006),
   Barack Obama
 Crimes Against Nature (2004),
   Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
 Building a Bridge to the 18th
   Century 
(1999), Neil Postman
Fantastic Voyage: The science 
   behind radical life extension

   (2004), Ray Kurzweil and Terry
   Grossman, M.D.
The God Delusion (2006),
   Richard Dawkins




All Book Reviews
 
  Articles Human Interest Guest Columns  
  The Free State in Winter_2:
  
Personal Notes from the 2008
   New Hampshire Liberty Forum
The Free State in Summer :
  
 Diary of the 2007 Free State    Project Porcupine Festival
The Free State in Winter_1:
  
Personal Notes from the 2007
   New Hampshire Liberty Forum
Excerpts from New Pilgrim
   Chronicles
, Brian Wright
   Reason vs. Faith
   Peace is Patriotic
   Modern World of Work
The Sacred Nonaggression
   Principle: Cutting the Gordian
   Knot of Politics,
article by Brian
   Wright submitted to Liberty
   Magazine, February 2007


All Articles
Poetry from Sam Mills (5/8/08)
   The Editorial Department
Columns for Neighorhood News,
   a weekly newspaper serving New
   Hampshire
   They Robot
Miscellaneous Contributions
   in spring of 2007, bw's letter to
   editor of Oakland Press (Oakland
   County Michigan) regarding jail
   overcrowding and drug laws:
   Try Freedom









All Human Interest Pieces
Real Mortgage Relief
Obama, Olbermann, FISA II
End Corporate Welfare
Obama, Olbermann, FISA I
Nuclear Power
Urgent: Stop Embargo of Iran
What Liberal Media?
Globalization
"None of the Above" Voting  
Phone for Peace  
Marriage is a Contract 
Dangerous Democracy? 
Summertime Surprise: War with    Iran? 
Jitneys and Colectivos
Credit Collapse Issue, cont.    
Current Mortgage/Money Crisis
Who Says Paul is UnAmerican?!
Independence Day Letter



All Guest Writings
 

 
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