Monthly Archives: February 2012

School Shooting

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Order / DeCentralization / Deschooling / Schools Purpose / Rants / Another school shooting! Should we be shocked? Should we yawn? It’s impossible to understand my reaction to … Continue reading

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Oedipus Nixon

I wrote a lot of satires — to Johnson, to Nixon … But Knatz.com got censored before I’d shown more than the four now in the pKnatz satire menu as of this 2012 02 28. I still have a stack … Continue reading

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Decommissioning the Army

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Personal / Writing / Satire / The Selective Service ignored my Pacifism note and drafted me. I and a bunch of fellow English majors were assigned to Whitehall Street Recruiting … Continue reading

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Injun Nukes

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Personal / Writing / Satire / My many “Nixon letters” have long been a favorite part of my life’s opus but till today I’ve somehow mounted here only two: two … Continue reading

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A Connecticut Nixon In Bing Crosby’s Court

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Personal / Writing / Satire / Riots at Attica Prison occasioned this epistle to the Nixon White House in 1970. In those days anyone would have recognized the reference to … Continue reading

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Religious Sects

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Social Epistemology / Cosmology / Religion / @ K. 1995 Mission: to illustrate that human maps of truth diversify like languages around the Tower of Babel … Continue reading

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Sacred & Profane

Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Social Epistemology / Religion / Sacred & Profane Mission: to challenge glib assumptions about man’s ability to distinguish sacred from profane: both concepts being culturally subjective Durkheim observed that while there are many religions … Continue reading

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Where the Buffalo Roam

The founding fathers talked about liberty, freedom. Church elders talked down free thinkers. Not everybody’s on the same page, are they? I’ve long campaigned for diversity, that’s the context in which I founded the Free Learning Exchange, 1970. The last … Continue reading

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Privacy

In Genesis God walks in the Garden (of Eden) in the cool of the evening. He calls to Adam and Eve, “Where are you?” Adam replies that they were hiding. Because they were naked. “Who told you that you were … Continue reading

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Lenten Thanks

pk & Jan, Elks Mardi Gras ’12 Authentic New Orleans Mardi Gras Jan provided the clothing. She has boxes of Mardi Gras stuff, New Orleans. Her scarf, like my shirt, has the right colors but the scarf, could you see … Continue reading

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