Not So Personal Essays
Most of these essays, although they are based on personal experiences, concentrate on elements not so personal.
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A Curmudgeon’s Report..........
A Mulligan, Please..........
...and I Ain’t Too Sure About You..........
Anti-intellectualism My Butt..........
Apathy---Not Always a Bad Thing..........
Artificial Intelligence and HAL..........
Attaboy, 8..........
Beards Are Trending..........John W. Pinkerton
Being a Texan..........Curt Wills
Big Changes Little Noted..........
Big Changes Since WWII.......... Bill Neinast
Bigwigs.......... John W. Pinkerton
Bob and Silent K.......... John W. Pinkerton
Book Burnings and Censorship.......... John W. Pinkerton
Chiropractors.......... John W. Pinkerton
Churches, Work Harder or............. John W. Pinkerton
Coaches.......... John W. Pinkerton
Colleges: Perceptions and Realities.......... John W. Pinkerton
Look before You Leap.......... John W. Pinkerton
Cool.......... John W. Pinkerton
Cottonseed.......... John W. Pinkerton
Creepy Places......... John Pinkerton
Country Inn---Gone......... John Pinkerton
Do Aliens Have a Sense of Humor......... John Pinkerton
Double Vision..........Jay Brakefield
Drinking and Camping and the Presidents.......... John W. Pinkerton
Enemies Can Be Blessings.......... John W. Pinkerton
Enjoyed the Gun Talk..........Bob Hurt
Epilogue.........Frank Cox III
Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum.......... John W. Pinkerton
Felon Friendly.......... John W. Pinkerton
Fifteen Minutes of Fame.........
First, Do No Harm.......... John W. Pinkerton
Flyover County.......... John W. Pinkerton
Fog.......... John W. Pinkerton
Frog or Toad?.......... John W. Pinkerton
From Alvin to Yogi.......... John W. Pinkerton
Get a Rope.......... John W. Pinkerton
Give Me a Damned Break.......... John W. Pinkerton
God Hates a Straight Line John W. Pinkerton
Gravity’s Pull on Me.......... John W. Pinkerton
Hang Those Deniers.......... John W. Pinkerton
Hardware, Software, and Life.......... John W. Pinkerton
Hate.......... John W. Pinkerton
Hell, It’s On.......... John W. Pinkerton
High Self-Esteem and Expectations.......... John W. Pinkerton
Hitchin’.......... John W. Pinkerton
Humility......... John W. Pinkerton
Hunting.......... John W. Pinkerton
Hurricane Hilary............Corky Cummings
I Am a Lucky Man.......... John W. Pinkerton
I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Technology.......... John W. Pinkerton
I Know Nothing, Nothing!.......... John W. Pinkerton
I Like Rich People.......... John W. Pinkerton
Icons and Judgments.......... John W. Pinkerton
If You’re a Man over Thirty.......... John W. Pinkerton
Impossible?.......... John W. Pinkerton
Intelligence.......... John W. Pinkerton
Irish.......... John W. Pinkerton
It’s a Ding Dang Miracle.......... John W. Pinkerton
Just Too Damned Big.......... John W. Pinkerton
Know Thyself.......... John W. Pinkerton
Language Matters.......... John W. Pinkerton
Last Meals.......... John W. Pinkerton
Lawsuit...Really?.......... John W. Pinkerton
Less is More.......... John W. Pinkerton
Let’s Talk about Goats.......... John W. Pinkerton
Let’s Talk about Hats.......... John W. Pinkerton
Linear Week.......... John W. Pinkerton
Lord Elgin.......... John W. Pinkerton
Make Your Own Double-Inverted Diametric-Apex Cheops Pyramid Psychotronic Twirler........ Bob Hurt
Man Plans, and God Laughs.......... John W. Pinkerton
Mass Murders.......... John W. Pinkerton
Mathematics.......... John W. Pinkerton
Meaning of Life.......... John W. Pinkerton
Methusela.......... John W. Pinkerton
My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma.......... John W. Pinkerton
My Tree.......... John W. Pinkerton
Name Change Head Explosion.......... John W. Pinkerton
Nicknames.......... John W. Pinkerton
Nod Once for “No”..........Bill Tune
Novelty Songs.......... John W. Pinkerton
Okay, We Need to Talk.......... John W. Pinkerton
Old Age and Nursing Homes.......... John W. Pinkerton
Old White Guy Speaks.......... John W. Pinkerton
Oops!.......... John W. Pinkerton
Our Big Oak: Hard Times.......... John W. Pinkerton
Our Town.......... John W. Pinkerton
Outhouses.......... John W. Pinkerton
PC--Not Personal Computer--Politically Corrent..........Sherrine Moore
Photography......... John W. Pinkerton
Public Education.......... John W. Pinkerton
Rehab.......... John W. Pinkerton
Rambo.......... John W. Pinkerton
Religion or Not.......... John W. Pinkerton
Resolving and Relevance.........Michael O’brien
Richard Milhous Nixon.......... John W. Pinkerton
Round Top.......... John W. Pinkerton
Routines.......... John W. Pinkerton
Same Man: Same Problem.......... John W. Pinkerton
Satchel Page was right, petty much..........Jay Brakefield
Silly, Stupid and Insand Laws........ Mick Stratton
Social Changes.......... John W. Pinkerton
Seychelles.......... John W. Pinkerton
Shakespeare’s Man.......... John W. Pinkerton
Shock.......... John W. Pinkerton
Somerville Progress.......... John W. Pinkerton
Southern Waving.......... John W. Pinkerton
Square Pegs and Round Holes.......... John W. Pinkerton
Square Roots.......... John W. Pinkerton
Stanford Retards.......... John W. Pinkerton
Suicide Happens.......... John W. Pinkerton
Sundays, the Sabbath, and Blue Laws..........
Talking to Men.......... John W. Pinkerton
Tears---Knock It Off.......... John W. Pinkerton
The Cool Kids’ Table.......... John W. Pinkerton
The Death Sentence.......... John W. Pinkerton
The Gospel According to Bill..........Bill Tune
The Hero Season.........Michael O’brien
The Love of a Winged One..........Bob Pankey
The Merging........ Mick Stratton
The Moon and Green Cheese.......... John W. Pinkerton
The Mystery of Electricity.......... John W. Pinkerton
The One-Eyed Man.......... John W. Pinkerton
The Penny........... John W. Pinkerton
The Psychotronic Twirler..........Bob Hurt
The Roll of ISIS in the West........ Bob Hurt
The Romance Is Over.......... John W. Pinkerton
The Silent Generation.......... John W. Pinkerton
The Watchers..........Grady Arnold
Thinking Inside the Box.........Michael O’brien
This Is an Intervention.......... John W. Pinkerton
Time or Maybe Not.......... John W. Pinkerton
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream.......... John W. Pinkerton
Too Dumb to Know.......... John W. Pinkerton
Transcendentalism.......... John W. Pinkerton
Trismegistus.......... John W. Pinkerton
Twenty-four in One.......... John W. Pinkerton
UFOs and Me.......... John W. Pinkerton
Uncle Sam, You Got a Lot of ‘Splanin’ to Do.......... John W. Pinkerton
Useless Memories.......... John W. Pinkerton
Wallowing in Grief.......... John W. Pinkerton
We Call Our Daddies Daddy.......... John W. Pinkerton
Weird Physics.......... John W. Pinkerton
What a Strange World.......... John W. Pinkerton
What Do You Say to a Dying Friend?.......... John W. Pinkerton
What’s Under Your Bed?.......... John W. Pinkerton
You’re Late, Damn It.......... John W. Pinkerton
You’re Still Not the Boss of Me.......... John W. Pinkerton
Zombies.......... John W. Pinkerton
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Miscellaneous