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This candle will continue to burn at this website until President Bush agrees to speak with Cindy Sheehan
Aug 17, 2004
(candle downloaded from here)


   June 2006
           POORLY EDITED My View column that ran in IndyStar, Thurs June 20
           Please read Original submitted version of column: Why we Need Bike Lanes and Mass Transit

   Mar 2006
                Why is Dick Cheney shooting people?

   Jan 2006
                Advice to Senator Bayh prior to Alito confirmation vote
                      (letter printed in IndyStar)

    Aug 2005
                What new -and whacky - recess appointments can we expect from Pres. Bush after John Bolton?

    Mar 2005
                Letters to IndyStar (including my take on the need -or lack there of- for legislation addressing same sex marriage.)

   February 2005
                Letter that actually got intoThe NY Times (OK. OK. It was the Circuits Section.)

            Commetary that 'All Things Considered' PAID for (and I recorded for broadcast, but it died on cutting room floor.)  To appreciate it,      
            you'll have to transport yourself back to
     Mar of 2004
                when John Kerry had just wrapped up the Democratic nomination for president - but nobody knew who he was.

                The latest political satire - printed at the Washington Dispatch webzine
                 1 Reluctant Explorer, Political Patron  (why does Bush want to go to Mars). Jan. 2004

                Essay to The Indy Star  (Candy is rampant in schools - what are the consequences).  Dec 2003.
                What they excerpted (without my permission)  see Dec 14. 2003
                A substitute teacher comes to my rescue  see Dec. 16 2003

Just Broadcast on NPR in May 2003!
            MarketPlace Commentaries
                1.  Day Care and Tax deductions - (with link to audio) ran on Marketplace May 2, 2003
                2.  The text of the commentary that ran on Marketplace Morning Report on NPR May 3, 2001

               Essays
                 1. Microsoft cries foul on SPAM
                 2. The FCC and the further Homogenization of the Media
                 3. Unusual activity on your credit card
                 4.  How to Balance Bush's tax cuts
                 5.  On Persuading Allies to Fight in Iraq
                 6.  On electronic snoops
                 7.  On grant writing
                 8.  On riding the Capitol Beltway
                 9.  Review of the '5 Spice Cafe' in Indianapolis
                10. On a resurgence of anti-semitic libels
             
                Letters
                   0. On Trent Lott
                   1. On Dick Cheney's foolish tax-break math
                   2. On crimes at the Airforce Academy
                   3. On Rep. Jim Moran's anti-semitic remarks
                   4. On war in Iraq
                   5. Letter to Sen Lugar on Curtailing Aid to Egypt
               
               More Letters and Essays
          See the picture in the NY Times that got me angry
               Read what I say about it.
               For a big laugh, read how Bob Lanese
responds in the guise of the NY Times Editors.

                More of Evan's essays:
                        1.  Naming Names  (for people who think that scientists don't get enough credit)
2. An EAR full (for those who have had their own odyssey as a patient in a hospital)
3. Getting on the radio
4. The original Customer Service essay  that lead to the first MarketPlace appearance (if you work in the service sector...)
5.. Thoughts on Bush v. Gore (for parents...)

         For people in PET:  A faux abstract for Next Year's Nuclear Medicine Society Meeting

                1. 'MONKEY'  (for people who had to suffer through grading abstracts to this year's (2003) meeting.

Evan's vacation recommendations

Great B&B Get-aways

1. Paradise in Toronto
2. Into a Disney Movie...    in Virginia  (remember Misty of Chincoteague?)
3. Muriel and Larry's tour of Scandinavia Summer 2001 (this is the best "family album" site I've ever seen!)

Evan's first attempts at interactive applets

1.  Jackie's adding game        (Need to download the seflt-installing  plugin to run tcl applications from your broser?)      (Need to download the tcl distribution WITH the tix library?  After installation, for this remote application to run, you must use Windows Explorer to associate the filetype extension ".tcl" with  the tixwish82.exe application on your local machine. )
2. Jackie's math game animation --- Do you know your "Standard Configurations"?

 

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