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“Greg Swann has insights into emotion on levels that really make you think. He can pluck that one annoying gray hair with pinpoint accuracy. He is a philosopher of sorts and he says and does what philosophers do. He shakes you to the bone, bumps your cup and lets you see what spills out. You see what you see and he sees what he sees. I’ll bet they are dramatically similar and extraordinarily different.” –Jeff PriceMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
I’m not like you. That’s why you should listen to me. I’m in an empathy of opposites with everyone: All they see are reasons to complain, when all I want to do is dance. I know why we are the way we are and how we can learn to do better with each other – making everything better.
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A 100% FREE collection of some of the best of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie stories. You will want to read all of my books, but here is a cost-free way to get started.Buy my books at Amazon.com
Dusty
An elegy of hope and love.
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Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
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Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
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Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
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Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
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Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
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Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
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Christmas at the speed of life...
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
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The Unfallen
A love story
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- Greg Swann writes – fiction and early essays.
- PresenceOfMind.net – a weblog I maintained in the early years of the new millenium.
- BloodhoundBlog – a national real estate weblog I started and contribute to. Much of the content there will be real estate related, but everything I write is focused on the self, and this is best represented in the longer essays.
- SplendorQuest.com – a weblog devoted to celebrating the uniquely human life.
Author Archives: Greg Swann
Is the Ayn Rand Institute’s indefensible stand on abortion part of a clandestine intelligence op?
Spies everywhere!Photo by: JD HancockWriter David McGowan is the author of an enchanting conspiracy theory: Was the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s a sophisticated intelligence operation devised to defuse the anti-Vietnam-War movement? As with … Continue reading
Evading abortion got you down? Rhapsodize premeditated torture and murder instead.
Paper tiger flexes his tonsils, soils himself, sullies Western Civilization. Piers Morgan: ‘My highest moral virtue is my ferocious animal savagery.’ With emphasis: Rhapsodizing violence is evil. It is even more self-destructive if, like Morgan, you know your homicidal rage … Continue reading
Eliciting a response from the Ayn Rand Institute on the Planned Parenthood abortion scandals.
Blood makes noise. I’ve known Don Watkins net.wise for 15 years or so, and I met him in real life last Fall in Tampa. I comped him a copy of Father’s Day – because the last thing the world needs … Continue reading
My top 5 posts illuminating the Ayn Rand Institute’s intellectual paralysis over abortion.
“Why should we bother to reply to Kautski? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There’s no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautski is a … Continue reading
Who knew it would be so easy to bitchslap the Ayn Rand Institute over abortion?
Hard work pays off. I should have done this years ago. I did, of course, but not as well as I’m doing today. As always, I never think about something until I do, and then I think about it all … Continue reading
Why am I infanticide-shaming the Ayn Rand Institute? Because abortionism kills humanity itself.
Good grief…Intrauterine infanticide – abortion – is morally repugnant – and you don’t need for me to tell you that, do you? The ‘procedure’ itself is ugly, as are its secondary consequences, but being instrumentally involved in abortion makes us … Continue reading
Spanking the Ayn Rand Institute on abortion and Planned Parenthood: None so deserving.
Ahem.How can you tell The Ayn Rand Institute is run by thick-witted cowards? Blank out. Ayn Rand lived her whole life waiting to meet a man strong enough to turn her over his knee and show her what she always … Continue reading
What’s the best tactic in the Ruling Class-led war on humanity? Convincing you not to have a family.
To the extent that a woman is doing with her life what any man can do, then, by all means, all hail the winsome Miss Spinster. But to the extent that she is not doing what only she as a … Continue reading
Libertarians: You’ve been wrong about abortion all along. It’s time to rip off the band-aid.
If you’re driving the I-5 and you need some Immodium, don’t stop in Irvine. They’re fresh out.If you have given your moral sanction to abortion until now, it’s time to rip off the band-aid. Here’s why: Abortion and self-adoration: Do … Continue reading
Why won’t the thick-witted cowards at the Ayn Rand Institute rise up to defend Planned Parenthood?
Dead babies… can’t take new ideas to the next level – even if that were permitted.Official-Objectivists never talk to me. They come around by the committee-load, but all they do is lurk. I see them by what they read – … Continue reading
The autopsy of Mister Maybe’s divorce: “Silence and distance and lies are all you need to destroy any marriage.”
From The Unfallen, how uncommitted men screw up their mariages. –GSS “I think maybe you can’t make those vows and commitments with anyone except the right person.” Her hand was on the table and he laid his atop it and … Continue reading
For what other species of the earth would we argue for #abortion?
The ultimate in man-made marvels:The man-made extermination of man.Photo by: Kyle SimourdCall me Cassandra. My job, apparently, is to state the stunningly obvious facts no one has any intention of heeding. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it. … Continue reading
If your ‘thought leader’ can’t tell you why abortion is evil – you’re going to the wrong church.
Like chattel slavery at the birth of the American experiment, abortion is the vicious contradiction upon which libertarianism foundered. I’m redeeming the quest for liberty by correcting this awful error.Photo by: sabianmaggyIt turns out people who eviscerate babies for a … Continue reading
End gun-free zones? No. End gun-free adults. Self-defense cannot be delegated. Denying that fact kills.
How can there be bullet holes in that glass when the sign clearly says that this is a gun-free zone?Four more unarmed innocents were killed yesterday. U.S. Marines, attestedly the most fearsome soldiers on earth. They were lawfully disarmed in … Continue reading