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Books - My favorite author continues to be Jane Austen. This link takes you to a discussion of my early reading.

Films - I love those magic pictures flickering on a screen.

Television - It may be the great wasteland, but I grew up there.

my favorite poem is "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot - it spoke to me when I read it at age sixteen, and it continues to speak to me...my second favorite poem is To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

I am a member of the state board of directors for Oregonians for Rationality.
It is a group of skeptics who aren't sure they can agree about anything, even what they're skeptical about
...which (by a board vote of 4 to 3) is scientific skepticism...
if a claim is not "falsifiable," then we don't concern ourselves with it -
in other words, we stay out of religion - we're sticking to science!

I consider driving on the freeway to be an act of faith...

Skeptical Inquirer (CSICOP) Scientific American
National Center for Science Education

Interesting conditions that people I care about very much are classified with:
Bipolar Disorder Asperger Syndrome Asthma