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Go, go, Shylygirl! Understanding my #kidlit Indiegogo campaign as a marketing appeal.

“Leadership is more than just going first.” –Shyly D. Lightful, The scientific art of getting lost, for dogs. http://igg.me/at/ShylyLostI have a brand new Indiegogo campaign as of this morning, a crowdfunding appeal for my forthcoming #kidlit bedtime story book, The … Continue reading

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Making the art that will change the culture with a shaggy-dog self-help book – written by a shaggy dog.

“Why a self-help book for dogs? Because leadership is more than just going first.” –Shyly D. LightfulI’m a happy man. Everything I’ve been grailing for in narrative art for the past two years is coming together for me now: Launching … Continue reading

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My delightful dog Shyly teaches me how to sell plush toys – from beyond the grave.

The real Shyly, virtually invisible, as always, with the real Odysseus. That’s one of the real Ophelia’s toys on the floor behind them. And Desdemona? She fades…My dog Shyly, writing in The scientific art of getting lost, for dogs: I … Continue reading

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Beta testers needed for a comic #kidlit bedtime book – about a family of talking dogs.

“Leadership is more than just eating first?”I have a kid’s book coming – maybe a few kid’s books. The comic premise: Self-help by dogs for dogs. The book I’m working on now will be called “The scientific art of getting … Continue reading

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Visibility, viability and the scientific art of getting lost, for dogs.

“Can you see the real me?”I’ve been playing visibility games for a solid year now. A visibility game, for me, is an intense empathy game where I probe you deeply enough to unearth the image of you that you wish … Continue reading

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What’s the worst that could happen, Dad, if you go ahead and let your family fall apart?

The father of the under-fathered West, Karl Marx.Photo by: gravitat-OFFOne way of comprehending Marxism: The global reification of patricide. Karl Marx’ father was a primo provider, but – “Daddy! Daddy wasn’t there!” – he was scornful and demanding, simultaneously dismissive … Continue reading

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EF or FF? Man versus nematode – and ‘science’ versus humanity.

“Hey, Baby. You wanna come up and see my etchings?”The male brain is ‘programmed’ to prefer sex over food? No. ‘Science’ is at war with humanity? Oh, yes. Exposing the Dancing Bear Fallacy with a classic dirty joke:

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Marxist ants, enslaved protozoa and the final triumph of feminism – the spree killer.

Good news! Dinoflagellates have the right to live without being enslaved and slaughtered – and so does your child.I wrote the complete algorithm* of moral philosophy over the weekend. That’s the good news. I have lots of bad news, including … Continue reading

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In its ugly #abortion evasion, what else are @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Institute neglecting?

“What, me worry?”After almost three months of exposure of the gruesome nature of the intrauterine infanticide championed by novelist Ayn Rand, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute has to-date had this to say: “La, la, la, la, la!” That’s … Continue reading

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Greg Swann speaks: An extended interview with me in Orlando from August of 2013.

Orlando, where you can almost always find a footing.In August of 2013, Anthony Johnson of The 21 Convention brought me to Orlando to do a video interview. I stayed for a month, for my own purposes, but the flights were … Continue reading

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We can #StopGunViolence by teaching young men appropriate authority. Ask Anthony Johnson to help.

Me, me, me at #T21C.Another month, another mass shooting. Are guns the problem? You bet. Guns in the hands of under-fathered, over-medicated, involuntarily-celibate, universally-rejected young men. Take away the guns (in your dreams) and these boys will kill with knives … Continue reading

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When do I give up on my marriage? And how do I know if I should?

When should you give up on your marriage?How about never?Photo by: Clyde RobinsonThere is no theology in an atheist church, but still I would love to give my catechisms a big, fancy theological name, something like Iconoclasticism. Consider: I run … Continue reading

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What’s the BEST thing Steve Jobs made? That would be you. So think different. Do better. And thrive.

[Today is the anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs. This is me writing in 2011, when he annouced his retirement from Apple. –GSS] Steve Jobs announced his resignation today as CEO of Apple, Inc. From that one little tidbit … Continue reading

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Attn. Yaron Brook: Your shameful silence on abortion spotlights the Ayn Rand Institute’s intellectual bankruptcy.

Objectivism has always been at war with the obvious, uncontested facts of human gestation. That war is now all the way lost. You’re not clipping your toenails, you are murdering your own child. Who knew?Photo by: Morten LiebachAs I write … Continue reading

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How do you “work at” your marriage? How about by making love continuously?

Wanna make love more often? It’s easy. Marry for life and then make love in everything you do.Photo by: Brian RichardsonTheory is a fine thing, but it don’t get the eggs fertilized. The everyday praxis of “working at” your marriage … Continue reading

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