Here are a few essays that might interest you. The first four of the five newspaper articles relate to high profile legal stories. Following are several essays published in Telicom, commentaries on books, and a few essays that are unpublished elsewhere.

What's Telicom? It's the journal of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE). I joined ISPE several years ago because I was attracted by its objective:

To provide a worldwide association for those persons at the highest level of intellectual ability who come together to motivate one another to distinguished achievement through exceptional creativity, leaving a legacy of wisdom and accomplishment that benefits civilization.

It's wonderful to be able to easily obtain the support and counsel of the more than 700 bright, accomplished individuals in 36 countries. Though I've now resigned from ISPE, I keep in touch with many of my friends there. To learn more about ISPE and to meet other members, here's the link to the ISPE website. Perhaps you'll join.

Newspaper articles

• Insanity is an Illusion that Leads to Delusion (Los Angeles Times, May 25, 1982.) Sets up John Hinckley, Jr.'s insanity defense.

 
• Actually, Jury was Judging Prosecution, not Hinckley (Orange County Register, June 30, 1982.) Explains why Hinckley was found insane—and not guilty.

 
• Bird's Feat: Redefining Legal Concepts as She Sees Fit. (Orange County Register, October 27, 1986.) Preliminary to Rose Bird's ouster.

 
• The Game of Law (Orange County Register, July 24, 1994.) The Simpson case shows why no serious search for truth uses the adversary system.

 
• Buddhist Endocrinology: A Balm for Ailing Doctors (The Psychiatric Times, December, 1990.) A spoof of many things.

• Are We `Nothing but a Pack of Neurons?' Concerns Francis Crick's book, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul, and describes ethnic science.

 
• The Suicide Test: AI's Holy Grail My solution to the ultimate problem faced by advocates of strong artificial intelligence: How to know if a machine is self-aware.

 
• True Beliefs Black humor showing the absurdity of human conflicts created and sustained by conditioned ideological beliefs.
  
  
• Autistic Certainty My term for the self-reference that underlies a large portion of human interactions and beliefs, especially the stupid ones.

 
• Solomon Reversed on Appeal The danger of applying legal fictions to real human beings.

 
• The Legal Model vs The Psychological Model Why the law is incompetent to address reality.

 
• The Corrupting Influence of the Legal Faith "Believing in" the legal system is foolish and counterproductive to justice.

 
• Is Homo sapiens sapiens a Wise Species? Consider the evidence.

Book Commentaries

• The G.O.D. Experiments My review of Gary Schwartz's new book, which disproves its own thesis.

 
• Quantum Mechanics or Quantum Mythology? My critique of Dean Radin's prediction that the consciousness revolution will center on quantum mechanics.

Miscellaneous essays

• Natural Human Political Behavior Does human political behavior differ significantly from that of cattle?

 
• The Uniform Code of Political Justice This essay outlines my solution to the problem of corrupt government.

 
• If Demons are real they're allergic to neuroleptics. Grand finalist in 1987 The Psychiatric Times Annual Essay Contest.

 
• Random Trials A parody of perverse legal reasoning.

 
• The Legalization of America A commentary, more or less, on legal methods.
  
  

• Happiness is Knowing How to Cope A talk to the Lawrence, KS exploration group of ISSSEEM. March 11, 2003

• Telepathy: Nonlocal Languaging My experiences learning about telepathic communication.