Miscellaneous Topics Index

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This is the index for links to everything that didn't fit into some other category. Some of it relates to dogs, but some does not.   (In case you are wondering abut the logo, I always abbreviate "miscellaneous" as "miscl" which would be pronounced "missile". Be grateful I didn't choose to show the rear view with the dog bent forwards into a jockey-like riding posture.)

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• dog
• non-dog :   fun    serious (social and political issues)

Dog Miscellaneous

• With Dogged Extermination, a dog mystery by Suzanne Constant
• The New York City Rat Song (a modest suggestion for solving New York city's plague of fifty million rats)
• "It's the Pits" , a satiric diatribe against the anti-Pit Bull hysteria, written several anti-Pit pogroms ago in the late 1980's and published in Dog Sports Magazine.
• "Dog Owners of America" , a satiric diatribe against anti-dog legislation, written in the late 1980's and published in Dog Sports Magazine
• Pets for Ethical Treatement of All Humans, a humourous piece about "exploitation" of pets by people and vice versa, with links to some serious articles.
• If You Can ... , a bit of humor about dog's outlook on life. author unknown.
• You Know You've Gone to the Dogs When ....
• Dogs Getting Into Heaven, a Twilight Zone episode and a Hindu classic tale.

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Non-dog Miscellaneous

• mostly for fun
• How I Rescued a Blue-Belly Lizard.
• A Hummingbird Rescue : how I rescued a hummingbird trapped indoors, with photos of hummingbird perched on my hand.
• On Profanity (why I hardly ever use it)
• America the Once-Beautiful (song about pollution and overpopulation)
• The Ballad of Mac and DOS (a computer verse)
• Save and Back Up : poster to remind you to save and back up files (note : may offend some people)
• to the Belle of Amhurst (verse)
• Let It Rain, Let It Rain, Let It Rain (a California Christmas song)
• Macintosh / Photoshop (non-dog, poem, celebrating the Macintosh computer)
• Make It Right (an inspirational song)
• Overdue Baby Lullabye (song for the last weeks of pregnancy, human version ; written for my veterinarian who was finding the last weeks of pregnancy hard to endure.)
• Ways that Birthing a Baby is NOT like Whelping a Litter ( a Top Ten you won't see on Letterman ; written for my veterinarian who was in her last weeks of pregnancy at the time.)
• Pegasus (song ; the fabled winged stallion as Buddy Holley would have written it)
• Sister Sarah Updated (updated folk song for women )
• A Spider , Yellow, fat, and Round (non-dog, poem)
• "Tally Ho !" drawing of nude huntress riding sidesaddle
• The Web Weaver's Song (reversal on a classic folk song)
• "A Woman's Work" needlepoint
• Fear of Flying Changes, drawing and verse about women in love with horses. (Warning : some would consider this a bit raunchy, ie mildly X-rated or maybe even more than mildly !)



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• more serious :
  mostly about the human condition, including, religion, sexuality, sexism, politics, and other potentially offensive topics (most of these essays may be upsetting or offensive to some readers). Intended to make the reader think or re-think controversial topics or unpopular and/or unconventional views.
  As a child I was told that one should not discuss politics, sex , or religion. But really what else is so interesting or so important ?!
  I'm re-organizing this a bit into sub-topics in order to make it easier to find related articles. Sometimes it's hard to know where to put an article, because most of them are relevant under more than one heading..


• the Supreme Court
  (overlaps with almost all the other topics)
• Concerning the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court. how events of the past 20 years raise questions about the respect due the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as a non-political upholder and interpreter of the Consitution
• Supreme Court Alternate History . how different appointments could have been made in 2016.
• the Four Supremes, painting of the four women Supreme Court Justices (one retired, three active) who have grreatly influenced all the topics below. Ruth Bade Ginsberg is my all time favorite Supreme.
• the Great Dissenter, song about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, my all-time favorite Supreme.
• I Dreamed I Saw Ruth Ginsburg Live
• Talking Dog joke, revised to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• The FBI's (maybe) A Girl's Best Friend a song about the currently on-going Kavenaugh investigation, written Oct 2, 2018, updated after the confirmation..


• health care
• Lifetime Fitness Sports , begining in schools and practiced by individuals throughout life. Activities that you enjoy that can help you to maintain good health. After all , the best "health care" (and the least costly) is to remain healthy as much as possible, and physical activity is essential to remaining healthy..
• Why Health Insurance Isn't Like Car Insurance, some ideas about concepts that might make coverage more widespread and more affordable. Concepts the insurance companies could choose to try out.
• Health Care Reform , Contraception, & Abortion : why the religious arguements for exclusion are invalid. (Guarranteed to offend the Rabid Right). written in 2009, but still highly relevant, maybe even more relevant in 2017 and 2018.
• Rob-ye Lobby , a satire on the Supreme Court "Hobby Lobby" decision and its potential implications.


• COVID-19 and related
• Me and Julio (not at the school-yard), lyrics for a Paul Simon classic , updated for the Corona epidemic.
• Everybody Must Get Masked, a song about the need for face coverings in the COVID era.
• Everybody must STAY masked (until we reach "herd health" level of vaccinations. Written 5/25/2021, when vaccination rates are only half-way there in most localities. Includes samples of letters to send your state Governor , your local County Board of Supervisors, local City Council, and those stores you spend your money at.


• All I Want for Christmas is my COVID Vax. a song about wanting to get vaccinated as soon as possible and everyone else too.
• What a Good Leader Could Have Said in February 2020. about disclosing what was already known about the COVID danger and discussing measures against it. Telling the truth and summoning courageous responses.


• women, feminism (generally)
• Man Smart, Woman Smarter, in response to an article in the UC Davis Magazine on the "problem" of women having become the majority of students in college and professional school , especially Vet School.
• "The Destruction of Alice Grey" , a song I wrote in 1966 about women in science. At that time women were pretty much unwelcome and faced a lot of derrogatory remarks. (Likewise in Medical schools and Law schools.)


• marriage (generally) and child-rearing
• "Are You Dad Enough ?" , a response to the Time article "Are You Mom Enough ?"
• Re-thinking "Marriage" : re-thinking "marriage" and "civil union" (note : may offend some people).


• gay issues and gay marriage
• My predictions on what the Supreme Court will do and what it should do re DOMA and California's Prop 8 (likely to offend anti-gay bigots)
• Peggy and Sue Got Married, an updating of a Buddy Holly classic in light of the Supreme Court's rulings on DOMA and California Prop 8.
• Me and Julio (not at the school-yard), lyrics for a Paul Simon classic , updated for the Corona epidemic.
• California Wedding cards (note : may offend some people) . originally created summer of 2008, when California was one of only a few states offering same-sex marrriage. But since June 2015, all states must allow same sex couples to marry. Therefore re-titled "Gay Wedding Cards"
• Your Kids Already Know : regarding California's Proposition 8 and the effect or lack of effect of what kids read in story books. (guarranteed to offend and upset homophobes)
• www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/obergefell-v-hodges/ The Supreme Court ruled in June 2015 in OBERGEFELL ET AL v HODGES that the 14th Amendment requires that same-sex marriage must be allowed in all states and that all states must give full faith and credit to marriages legally contracted in other states.
• There's a wonderful new book , "Before I Do" , an attorney's guide to legal and other issues that a couple should think through before deciding to marry. written for gay couples but equally relevant to hetero-couples.
• Masters' Peace Bakery, a satire on Masterpiece Bakery, the Colorado bakery that refuses to bake cakes for gay weddings.


• contraception and abortion
• I Am A Pro-Choice Voter , brief (one page) letter suitable for use to legislators, newspapers, etc. You are welcome to use this as a model for your own letters
• Fight to Keep Abortion Safe and Legal for All Women !/li>
• If You Are Unwillingly Pregnant , how to avoid being coerced into child-rearing , including how to use your state's Safe Haven laws if you are unable to obtain an abortion. Also a few tactics that might help you to obtain an abortion.
• If Roe v Wade were Over-Ruled or why 2018 isn't 1973. exploring the potentially horrific effects and the many ways that contraception and abortion will remain available legally or underground or via the Internet.
• Health Care Reform , Contraception, & Abortion : why the religious arguements for exclusion are invalid. (Guarranteed to offend the Rabid Right). written in 2009, but still highly relevant, maybe even more relevant in 2017
• Roe v Wade and the 13th Amendment : a discussion of why Roe did not go far enough and why restrictions on contraception and abortion violate the 13th Amendment which forbids slavery and involuntary servitude. Also violates the 8th, against cruel and unusual punishments. (note : this article may offend some readers.)
• You Say that You Dislike Abortion : about all the things that those who say they oppose abortion should be supporting to reduce the need for abortion, ie to reduce unwanted and problem pregnancies. (guaranteed to outrage the Rabid Right and Anti-Choicers everywhere) Updated in 2018.
• Why Safe and Legal Abortion Matters (even to those who would never use it). This is broken into two parts, the second of which deals with Supreme Court cases.
• Who Will Raise the Unaborted Child, discussion of the possible fates, mostly unpleasant, of children whose birth is coerced by denial of abortion (and unavailability of contraception or failure of same). About the very inconvenient truth that it is impossible to coerce anyone to parent in a responsible and affectionate manner.
• Sci Fi stories about reproduction, various S F ideas about biology or technology or culture in which accidental pregnancy is unlikely or impossible. If you like S F , you probably already know some of these and would enjoy the rest.
• It's Deja Vu All Over Again : why California's Proposition 4 (in 2008) is just as bad as the previously rejected Prop 85 two years ago and Prop 73 four years ago. All three of these attempt to require parental notification when an underage woman seeks an abortion. (note : the very people who will be offended are the ones who most need to read this.) This issue may come up again in the future in California (where it is again unlikely to pass) and in "red" states where it might very well pass .
• From "Juno" to Juneau : the Sarah Palin soap opera illustrates why reproductive choice is crucial to everyone.


• politics, especially POTUS (in somewhat chronological order)
• Solitaire Sex : Witch side are you on ? , a response to Tea Party candidate and "dabbler in witch-craft" Christine O'Donnell's crusade against masturbation. (This article may be upsetting to some readers.)
• She'll Always Be My Nominee, a song for Hillary. (written late in the primary campaign of 2008)
• Hillary for Veep : the reasons why Hillary should be the 2008 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee. (note 2017 : this same logic would have made Bernie Saunders be Hillary's Veep candidatein 2016, and that probably would have resulted in their election.
• What can a woman do as well as a man ? a little song, added the evening before a most HERstoric Election Day. (updated after the election).
• Post-Election Songs, two song verses mourning the outcome of the 2016 election, plus image of some of the campaign buttons I made.
• The FBI's (maybe) A Girl's Best Friend a song about the currently on-going Kavenaugh investigation, written Oct 2, 2018, updated after the confirmation.


• religion (or irreligion)
  (guarranteed to offend many people.)
• "The Second Responder's Tale", a satire that will offend many.
• The God That's Spelled Backwards
• The Bouv is My Shepherd , a psalm about dogs as one's guardians.
• God Only Knows


• everything else
  (some serious, some humorous)
• If John Lennon Were Alive Today, added verses for "Imagine"
• Better Forest Management, a few thoughts and suggestions about some ways to reduce forest wildfire risks.
• Thinking About Energy Policies : towards breaking the addiction to guzzler cars and guzzler houses (written in 2008, updated 2015).
• Funding Repair of Roads and Bridges , based on a letter to California's Governor, Jerry Brown , in response to his proposal in late 2015 to fund this with a car tax. I have some modifications and alterrnatives that would raise funds while also promoting fuel efficiency in vehicles.
• Can We Stop Burning Fossil Fuels ?. (spoiler alert : we can reduce but can't totally stop.)
• Real Estate without an agent, describes my ideas as to what would be an ideal real estate web site to enable buyers and sellers to deal directly without needing an agent. It is my belief that a really well designed site with a powerful search engine could eliminate the need for agents in 95% of sales, thus savings sellers and buyers tremendous amounts of money. (Warning : if you are a real estate agent, you probably will not like this article.)
• Wheel of Fortune song
• questions I made up for the Jeopardy category "rhymes with a Beatles' first name". This one is purely for fun.
• my long-awaited Jeopardy Song
• Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Redux, a new look at an old classic.



• My Obituary , a response to a term paper assignment to write one's own obit and funeral. Rough drafted some months before my 73rd birthday.





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