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Recent Additions

• When Bullies Rule
• Haiti: A Dry Run for Climate Change’s Agony
• Open Letter to Keith Olbermann
• Supreme Debacle
• Silver Linings in Massachusetts
• Point of No Return
• The Fragile Nature of Privacy Rights
• Breeding Discontent: Embracing Marriage’s Original Intent
• Erik Naggum on Atlas Shrugged
• My Brother’s Reality Intrudes
• The Cat’s Meow—in Colour!
• A Christmas Peril (updated poem)
• The Nature of Creativity
• Busting up the Filibuster
• A Line in the Shifting Sands of Health Insurance ^♦
• What’s the Word on the Recession
• Filling George Tiller's Shoes
• Big Government, Little Government
• My Right to Control My Taxpayer Dollars
• I am not Pro-Slavery. Are you?
• Senate Debate on Health Care Makes My Head Hurt
• A Life without Public Health Insurance
• Afghanistan, According to Script
• Reaching for the Open Sky†
• Teetering on the Brink of Moral Bankruptcy
• Over-the-top Overdraft Fees
• Whoa There, Trigger!
• Settled Law on Abortion, and Why Stare Decisis Matters

A Few Recommendations

• Breeding Discontent: Embracing Marriage’s Original Intent
• Erik Naggum on Atlas Shrugged
• A Christmas Peril (updated poem)
• Over-the-top Overdraft Fees
    and its follow-up Teetering on the Brink of Moral Bankruptcy
• I am not Pro-Slavery. Are you?
• When the Bow Brakes
• Seeing Roe v. Wade as a Political Compromise
• Health Insurance: A Modest Proposal
• Medical Care and the Free-Market Catch-22
• That's the Way Walter Was
• Military Leaders: Grow Up and Let Them Tell ^♦
• Erik Naggum, R.I.P.
• Bambi, Uncola, Dakini, Katrina, 9/11 and Climate Change
• The Freedom to Hear
• George
• The Nature of a Hero
• Fresh Thoughts on Kissing ... and Beyond
• Hollow Support
• Rethinking Mega-Corporations
• Best Movie of All Time: "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan"
• Tax Policy and the Dewey Decimal System
• What Love Endures (poetry)
• Fiduciary Duty vs. The Three Laws of Robotics
    See Science Fiction author David Brin's response, too!
• Credit Cards: A Tax on "Being Poor"
• Redistributing Burden
• The "Two Unprincipled Parties" System
• The URLs of The Mind (poetry)
• Hair-Trigger Credit Card "Default Rates"
• An Inconvenient Hate

Business, Finances, Health Care and The Economy

• A Line in the Shifting Sands of Health Insurance ^♦
• Big Government, Little Government
• Senate Debate on Health Care Makes My Head Hurt
• A Life without Public Health Insurance
• Teetering on the Brink of Moral Bankruptcy
• Over-the-top Overdraft Fees
• Whoa There, Trigger!
• Settled Law on Abortion, and Why Stare Decisis Matters
• Grayson to Republicans: “Get Out of the Way”
• Health Insurance: A Modest Proposal
• Medical Transparency: The Siren’s Call
• Medical Care and the Free-Market Catch-22
• Bill Moyers interviews ex-head of communications for Cigna
• Fauxes and Wolves at the Door
• Bonus Pay for Bonus Pay
• "Bank Interest"
• Hollow Support
• The "Free Juice" Standard for Business Health
• The Ethical Bankruptcy of AIG Bonuses
• Rethinking Mega-Corporations
• A Thought Exercise about Business Ownership ^♦
• Judging Chief Executives
• Tax Policy and the Dewey Decimal System
• Fiduciary Duty vs. The Three Laws of Robotics
    See Science Fiction author David Brin's response, too!
• Should we go back to using money?
• Societal Capital Remix
• Credit Cards: A Tax on "Being Poor"
• Name Your Own Credit Card Rate! ^♦
• An All-Volunteer Army of Credit Card Users
• Round Up the Usury Suspects
• Hair-Trigger Credit Card "Default Rates"
• It's Christmas on Wal*Street
• Not Buying It: The Case for Renting ^♦
• Not I.O.U. but Who Owes Who?
• What Concessions to Demand for The Bailout?
• The Economy: Who Could Have Known?
• Boycott Halloween

Government, Politics and Society

• When Bullies Rule
• Breeding Discontent: Embracing Marriage’s Original Intent
• Erik Naggum on Atlas Shrugged
• Busting up the Filibuster
• What’s the Word on the Recession
• Seeing Roe v. Wade as a Political Compromise
• A Day of Difficulty in Remembering
• Challenging the Abortion Exclusion
• My Slice of the Pie (Again)
• Military Leaders: Grow Up and Let Them Tell ^♦
• United We Starve
• Why on Earth Would I Want to Switch to Paperless?
• The Freedom to Hear
• George
• Trials and Tribe Relations
• Disobedience, Civil and Not-So-Civil ^♦
• Hypocrisy and High-Collar Crimes
• Where Conscience is Borne
• Rule of Law
• Organ Donation: Flip the Default to Opt-Out
• The Trademarking of Truth
• Preparing for Evidence-Based Medicine
• My Slice of the Pie ^♦
• Abiding in Tolerance ^♦
• Did the Supreme Court cause our Economic Woes?
• Toward a Fair and Balanced Supreme Court
• Agreeing to Disagree The World Over ^♦
• The Second-Class Amendment
• Whatever Should Be, Should Be
• Diss Proportional Salaries
• Diplomatic Immunity for our own Presidents?
• Guantánamo, US Pardons, and the International Court ^♦
• Office of Impeachment
• Limiting Term Frequency
• Civilian-In-Chief
• Redistributing Burden
• The "Two Unprincipled Parties" System
• What Is a Right?
• A Real Act in Defense of Marriage ^♦
• Is Democracy Dead?
• Public Engagement in Policymaking
• Of Presidents and Kings

News, Election, and Politics of the Moment

• Haiti: A Dry Run for Climate Change’s Agony
• Open Letter to Keith Olbermann
• Supreme Debacle
• What’s The Word on Civil Union?
• Silver Linings in Massachusetts
• Point of No Return
• Filling George Tiller's Shoes
• Afghanistan, According to Script
• When the Bow Brakes
• Who Will Be Sarah Palin's Darth Vader?
• A Day of Difficulty in Remembering
• Who Will Be Sarah Palin's Darth Vader?
• Lame Duck Season’s Coming Early ^♦
• Super-Heated Thoughts about Rio 2016
• No fair! Democrats are behaving like meanie Republicans
• Bill Moyers interviews ex-head of communications for Cigna
• The "Palin Doctrine" ^♦
• My Secret Shame: Confessions of a Republican Wannabe
• PBS call for public input: What are your information needs?
• Draft Krugman
    and its follow-up bailout@home
• As ye sow, so shall ye reap ^♦
• Injecting Hope into Stem Cell Research
• Obama Lifts "Global Gag Rule"
• Daring to Do the Wright Thing ^♦
• The New Warren Court
• Petition for Open Transition and Open Government
• Government Transparency
• Pardon me, too
• Over-Full Disclosure
• Would you like a receipt with that?
• Pondering Mandate
• Heroes, Past and Present
• First they came yelling...
• On Notice
• Election Stratego
    and its follow-up Who Will Be Sarah Palin's Darth Vader?
• An Inconvenient Hate
    and its follow-up Hate On The March
• Calling Palin's Bluff
• Stop the Cycle of Republican Ideological Bulimia
• Should McCain Yield to Romney?
    (not an endorsement of either of them)
• Seconds to Spare: Let the VP's Fill In!
• Shifting The Focus

Food, Energy, Environment and Climate Change

• Property Tax is not Green
• Consensus Building about the Environment
• Polluting The Planet to Avoid Health Concerns
• How many is "Overcrowded"?
• Recycling Theater
• State of Fear (a la Crichton, not Bush/Cheney) ^♦
• Trash Talk
• All-Consuming Questions ^♦
• A Splenda Idea
• Open Letter to Sarah Palin about the Environment

Philosophy, Humor, Sadness and Modern Culture

• The Fragile Nature of Privacy Rights
• What’s The Word on Civil Union?
• My Brother’s Reality Intrudes
• The Nature of Creativity
• I am not Pro-Slavery. Are you?
• When the Bow Brakes
• The Elusive Nature of Fairness
• A Day of Difficulty in Remembering
• My Brother is Pregnant
• The Plane Truth About Flight 188?
• Sharing Email Addresses
• That's the Way Walter Was
• Be Gone, Phishing!
• Erik Naggum, R.I.P.
• Three Little Words We Like To Hear ^♦
• Rewatching Watchmen
• Star Trek: The Next Original Generation
• The Nature of a Hero
• Ultimata
• Fresh Thoughts on Kissing ... and Beyond
• Best Movie of All Time: "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" ^♦
• Star Trek: A Blog Generation
• Quoted Out of Context?
• The Truth about Soliciting for God
• Remembering Michael Crichton ^♦ (obituary)
• Saturday Night Real-Life
• Up In Smoke: The New Memorial Day

Poetry and Short Stories

• A Christmas Peril (updated poem)
• Gray Matters: Let OS Be Your Last Battlefield (comic)
• Haiku: Mom watches over me (poetry)
• Nudity (now with Haiku) (poetry)
• What Love Endures (poetry)
• Happy Birthday, Karen (poetry)
• "That's How I Operate" (short story)
• A Christmas Peril (poetry)
• Haiku Challenge: Kent's Life (poetry)
• 101 Words: "Late-Night Discovery, 1975" (short story)
• Life's Scattered Moments (poetry)
• The URLs of The Mind (poetry)
• Political Haiku (poetry)
• Palin-drome (wordplay)

Kent and Open Salon (Meta)

• The Cat’s Meow—in Colour!
• Reaching for the Open Sky†
• Reflections on the OS Editorial Policy
• Father's Day Redux
• The Forgotten Father's Day Contest
• A Quick Intro to HTML for Open Salon Users†
• Two Confirmed Truths, One Admitted Lie. Nudity revealed!
• Interview: The Hobo Spills the Beans & Nudity is Served
• Two Copied Truths. One Borrowed Lie. One Maybe? Some Nudity?
• Kent's been interviewed!
    reporting on an interview of me by CoyoteOldStyle.
• OS Voices (Silent Edition, for Jon Henner)
• Bring back the Recently Blogged feed
• Gary Justis' birthday, the morning after
• Shifting Circumstances, Shifting Priorities
• Kent's Selected Open Salon Readings for 2008
• 25 random bits of trivia about Kent
• Kent Pitman in JROTC, and after
• Fancier-Looking Blog Posts with CSS†
• OS Bug: Silently discarding heavily hyperlinked comments?
• Further Opening Salon?†
• Kent Pitman's Avatar ^♦
• Kent Pitman's avatar's Halloween Costume
• Comments on Recent OS Upgrade
• Screen Real Estate, Beneath The Surfeit
• Who Makes The Headlines?

Ethics and Education

• Open Letter to Keith Olbermann
• Point of No Return
• Knowledge and Intuition
    and its follow-up Intuition and Knowledge
• "Raising Money" at a School Bake Sale
• Veterans of the Education Process
• College: An Overpriced Monopoly
• Is Doing Good the Same as Not Doing Harm?
• Homework Problems

Lisp, Technology, and Virtual Society

• Virtual Community, before the Internet (history) ^♦
• Hacking, before the Internet (history) ^♦
• Lisp's 50th Birthday