Gary C. Gibson - Essays

Science fiction writers with more than a bit of wisdom tend to be favorite reads of mine. One might think of Heinlein's two most well kn...

President Obama continues to support offshore oil drilling in a lawyer-politician way. Lawyers are agents of others—hired guns of jurisprude...

The massive oil spill from an exploded offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico below the Mississippi River is an example of why offshore oil ...

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell decided to join several other states in challenging the Obama Health Care plan to require individuals to purcha...

No right thinking environmentalist would support the proliferation of hundreds or thousands of nuclear power plant or offshore oil drilling-...

President Obama's second choice should be a strong supporter of clarity and openness in legal contracts with a full disclosure principle...

In the cold war era, serving in the National Guard presented a simpler opportunity to believe one was serving national rather than global co...

My experience with the cost of surgery for an on-the-job injury while self-employed may be typical for the working poor who do not live with...

Physicalism is a term Quine used instead of materialism. Quine's ontological terminology allows any term to be a non-realist term--that ...

If these petite nukes go in all over the world to increase electrical output then the requirement for security defend these little 8000 home...

I believe that Quine in renormalizing the Kantian dichotomy from the analytic-synthetic distinction left a default criterion for philosophic...

A minute view of Alaskans gathering at the Alaska State Capitoltoday.

A special forces axiom is to sew confusion amongst the opposition forces. Conspiracy and collusion theorists that believe the U.S. Governmen...

I have made a philosophical inference such that instead of gravitons or gravity waves, time quanta may satisfy Einstein's relativity cri...

Richard Nixon sought to bring universal health care to Americans in a 1974 bill that was opposed by Edward Kennedy, now 36 years later--Rich...

A South Korean navy ship was sunk following an explosion near the stern--possible from a North Korean torpedo. The recent North-South politi...

Philosophy provides license to consider many ideas briefly and construct paradigms of a theoretical nature, so I write some philosophical th...

New tine blossoms late in spring budding ideas of mortal’s sap sought well blent magic cakes some have ate rhymes and riddles works worst...

There may be many examples of good philosophical science fiction--in fact Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and 'The Harry Seldon Pl...

If twelve states including Virginia plan to sue the Federal Government, or file legal challenges to manditory health insurance purchases fro...