The Compleat Heretic's Publications
This page was last modified on 17 March 2008.
Contents
Letters to the Editor
Newspaper Columns
Essays
Literary Commentary
Poetry
Addendum
Ring of Opinion on the Web
Letters to the Editor
NAACP is wrong to oppose Thomas (8 August 1991)
Exception with National Association for the Advancement of (Liberal) Colored People's opposition to the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court
Animal rights group sinks to a new low (26 August 1991)
Reaction to PETA ad campaign comparing Jeffrey Dahmer and meat industry
Cartoon misrepresented NRA's philosophy (24 August 1992)
Response to an idiotic pro-"gun control" editorial cartoon
President's remark was way out of line (21 May 1993)
Disgust with Bill Clinton's slander of Rush Limbaugh
Is change in the wind? (26 June 1993)
Speculation on the rising fortunes of the GOP
Rooming with gays changed soldier's mind (2 August 1993)
Opposition to military service by open, practicing homosexuals
Is Duke guilty of perpetrating double standard? (26 November 1997)
Commentary on a "racist" incident at Duke University
Doonesbury, hate radio and hate cartoons (30 December 1997)
Disgust with "hate cartoons" from Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette
Froma Harrop insulted memory of Sonny Bono (18 January 1998)
Defense of the late Representative Sonny Bono in response to a vicious, hate-filled column by Froma Harrop
Abortion cartoon was ironic (3 February 1998)
Opposition to abortion by noting the irony of an editorial cartoon about the bombing of an Alabama abortion clinic; includes clarification of my pro-life position per an e-mail query
Could Clinton actually be a cannibal, too? (13 April 1998)
Objection to President Bill Clinton's spring 1998 trip to Africa where he participated in cannibalism; extremely special answering machine and fan mail double bonus!
Democratic National Criminal Conspiracy (23 May 1998)
Suggestion that congressional Democrats, the Clinton administration, and the Democratic National Committee merge their obstructive activities into a single operation; special answering machine bonus!
Abortion isn't life, liberty or happiness (11 July 1998)
Opposition to abortion by noting its denial of our highest ideals as affirmed within the Declaration of Independence; special fan mail bonus!
Anti-abortion violence negates pro-life goals (11 October 1998)
Opposition to abortion by condemning both violence against abortion clinics and the violence that occurs within them
Get back to business; Bill Clinton must go (18 November 1998)
Presentation of the case for Bill Clinton's impeachment and removal from the office of President of the United States
Gore as president is a risk we cannot afford to take (9 July 2000)
Evaluation of a Gore presidency as a "risky scheme" we should avoid
Susan B. Anthony opposed abortion (24 June 2002)
Opposition to abortion by reiterating the full, true feminist agenda of Susan B. Anthony and her colleagues
Newspaper Columns
Russians learn the meaning of svoboda (5 September 1991)
Reflections on freedom and the failed August 1991 communist hard-liner coup in the former Soviet Union
Where are the Democrats for election '92 (19 September 1991)
Evaluation of potential Democrat presidential candidates for the 1992 campaign
Army offers training, teaches self-discipline (3 October 1991)
Reflections on the benefits of active military service: HOO-WAH!
Thomas escapes the fury of liberal prosecution (24 October 1991)
Review of and commentary on the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court
It's time to bring ol' Terry and Jesse home (14 November 1991)
Argument against term limits by bashing Jesse Helms and Terry Sanford; special fan mail bonus!
Gulf War anniversary brings back memories (23 January 1992)
Reminiscences of my Gulf War service as an activated Reservist at Ft. Bragg; extra special fan mail bonus!
Circus accusations show animal rights irrationality (13 February 1992)
Reaction to animal rights wackos on campus and elsewhere; special fan mail bonus and extremely special answering machine bonus!
Ban against homosexuals must remain (4 February 1993)
Argument against lifting the ban to military service by open, practicing homosexuals based on my personal experience as an enlisted soldier; extra special fan mail bonus!
"Fair" does not mean "more," Mr. President (25 February 1993)
Argument against Clinton's 1993 tax increase
NRA is a victim of media bias (15 April 1993)
Defense of the National Rifle Association against mendacious "journalists"
Traditional values come out on campus (4 November 1993)
Review of and commentary on a hate crime committed during observance of "National Coming Out Day" at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
First moon landing in 1969 marked an entire generation (18 July 1999)
Reminiscences on the Apollo 11 Moon landing's 30th anniversary; special fan mail bonus and Apollo 11 links!
Please allow me to introduce myself (6 February 2007)
Introduction of myself to a new generation of UNCG Carolinian readers
The Wall boys exemplify our great national tragedy (20 February 2007)
Remembrance of my great-great-great-uncles and reflection upon the multigenerational effect of their deaths in the Civil War
Essays
The Necessity of Capital Punishment (24 February 1994)
Argument in favor of capital punishment for heinous murderers
Campus Speech Codes: Civility or Tyranny? (5 March 1994)
Argument against campus speech codes
The Military's Ban Against Homosexuals Should Remain (25 July 1994)
Argument against lifting the ban to military service by open, practicing homosexuals based on my personal experience as an enlisted soldier; an expansion of Carolinian editorial "Ban against homosexuals must remain" of 4 February 1993
Growing Up Connected (1 August 1994)
Essay on the importance of familial bonds for proper moral development
Literary Commentary
On the "Hallelujah Giant" in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (10 July 2006)
Discussion board post performing a "close reading" on an amazing sentence in Winterson's novel
On Jeanette's Mother in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (13 July 2006)
Discussion board post examining both the author's purpose and growing up by use of the character Mother in Winterson's novel
Dr. Felix Hoenikker in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle: Good or Evil? (19 July 2006)
Discussion board post examining the moral status of the character Dr. Felix Hoenikker in Vonnegut's novel
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and the Journey of the Dead Man (19 July 2006)
Discussion board post examining the relationship between the Trinity test of the first atomic bomb and Vonnegut's novel
"Understanding" Postmodernism (27 July 2006)
Discussion board post attempting to clarify the nature of Postmodernist literature and art
Approaching Joe Wenderoth’s "Letters to Wendy’s" (27 July 2006)
Discussion board post offering a strategy for making "sense" of Wenderoth's prose poem collection (WARNING: Offensive Content)
Christian Anti-Semitism in Margery Kempe's "Vision of the Passion" (5 September 2006)
Short response examining one of Christianity's traditional perversities through a medieval hagiography
Metaphor and Homonym in Much Ado About Nothing (28 September 2006)
Short response examining symbolism and wordplay in the penultimate scene of Shakespeare's play
Christian Nihilism in George Herbert's "Death" (17 October 2006)
Short response examining the Christian love of death and nothingness as expressed in Herbert's poem
Jonathan Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room": Misogyny or Misandry? (28 November 2006)
Short response examining sexism in one of Swift's controversial "excremental" poems
Modernism and the Creation of an American Poetics (19 June 2007)
Final paper examining the contributions of Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams to the development of a uniquely American poetry
The Shrinking God of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson (26 June 2007)
Short response examining the challenge to traditional conceptions of "God" in Whitman's "Song of Myself #48" and Dickinson's "The Brain—is wider than the Sky—" (632)
Recreating God: Religious Imagination in Whitman, Dickinson, and Stevens (24 July 2007)
Final paper examining the rejection of Christianity and redefinition of "the holy" in Whitman's "Song of Myself #48," Dickinson's "The Soul selects her own Society—" (303), and Stevens's "Sunday Morning"
A Close Reading of William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” (18 September 2007)
Short response examining Blake's sociopolitical critique of late 18th-century British society in his poem from Songs of Experience
A Close Reading of Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses” (15 November 2007)
Short response examining the father-son relationship between Ulysses and Telemachus as portrayed by Tennyson in his poem
Poetry
Collected Haiku: Winter/Spring 1978 (1978)
A collection of adolescent haikus, many of which are surprisingly good
Corvus (1978)
A pastoral quatrain
The Publisher (1978)
A protest against violence and oppression
The History of Annie Bryant (1978)
A protest against Anita Bryant and her anti-homosexual crusade
Crazed Mystic Child (1980)
A reflection of the sentiment: "And I don't know who I am, but life is for learning."
Bridge Burning (1982)
A pyromaniacal celebration of enlightenment
Zarathustra's Disciple (1982)
An escape from the abyss of nihilism
The Faith of a Compleat Heretic (1998)
A defense of intellectual honesty
Japanese Exercises (2000)
A study comparing and contrasting the tanka and the haiku
Heart of the Hunter (2007)
A lovelorn Orion seeks his Aurora
Addendum
Bill Clinton Can Never Be Trusted
Explaining why I'm a "Clinton hater"; includes his infamous 1969 "loathing the military" letter and the 1992 Memorandum for Record by Colonel Eugene J. Holmes detailing Clinton's draft dodging
Transcript of official statement of 7 August 1987
Detailing the homosexual misconduct of two of my Army roommates when I was stationed in Germany
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