The Desertrat Philosopher
golwis@yahoo.com
Created on November 12, 1996
Latest Update: April 16, 2009
about me
and the desert
 Purpose and Scope:

    This web page was originally created for the purpose of making public my application for Conscientious Objector status and separation from the United States Army. It contains most of the official documents that were available to me regarding that application, the most important documents being those I wrote myself, including the Three Point Outline, Enclosure #1, Enclosure #2, and the Rebuttal of the investigating officer's final report.

    Additionally, this page has evolved into a personal freedom resource page including links to freedom podcasts, blogs, organizations, books, movies and articles, as well as a few contributions of my own.

Liberty Quotes
(under construction)
 
Personal Contributions   Conscientious Objection
Resolution of Independence
Moral Maze: A Morality Play
What Is Property? An Essay
Do You Believe in x? A Dialogue
Great Books (a work in progress)
My Manifesto
 
portrait
The Best of Freedom Podcasts
 
Bureaucrash
Free Talk Live
Common Sense
Lew Rockwell
Liberty Radio Underground
Free Minds TV/Radio
Obscured Truth Network
Freedomain Radio (Latest)
Freedomain Radio (Greatest)
Anti-War Radio
Liberty Conspiracy
Hardcore History
Complete Liberty
 
"No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up." Lily Tomlin
 
News and Multi-Author Blogs
 
Lew Rockwell Blog
Free Minds TV
The Ridley Report
The Motorhome Diaries
Strike the Root
Freedom's Phoenix
Reason Online
Anti-War.com
The Beacon
Liberty Unbound
Blog of Bile

Have You Watched These Videos and Read These Essays?

Documentaries
Lysander Spooner
Other Books & Articles
America: Freedom to Fascism
American Zeitgeist
The Money Masters
Money as Debt
Natural Law
No Treason I, II and VI
Trial by Jury
Vices Are Not Crimes
Ain't Nobody's Business
The Anarchists
Case for... Immigration
Right to Ignore the State


"No man is free who cannot command himself."
-- Pythagoras
Freedom Stuff
"Resist much, obey little."
-- Walt Whitman

  Blogroll      (* favorites)

 * Anarchy In Your Head
 * Anti-War
    Barbed Wire Smile
    Beacon, The
    Beginner's Guide to Freedom
    Bock, Alan
    Bovard, James
    Check Your Premises
    Classically Liberal
    Cowboy State Policy Institute
    de Coster, Karen
    Degrees of Freedom
    Free Association
    Free Minds TV
    Freedom Channel
    Freedom's Phoenix
    Friedman, David D.
    History News Network
    Hooligan Libertarian
    Kill the Afterlife
    Kn@ppster
    Last Ditch
    Libertarian Labyrinth
    Liberty
    Liberty Radio Underground
    lowercase liberty
 * McElroy, Wendy
    Mises, Ludwig von
    No Government
    No Treason
    Obscured Truth Network
    Out of Step
    Pro Libertate
    QandO
    Radical Libertarian
    Reason
 * Rockwell, Lew
    Rose, Larken
    Spangler, Brad
 * Strike the Root
    Sunni and the Conspirators
    Tory Anarchist


News
   (for entertainment purposes only)   

Mainstream News
    CNN
    Foxnews
    Newsweek
    Reuters
    TIME
    USA Today
    US News and World Report
    Wall Street Journal

UK News
    BBC
    Daily Mail
    Economist
    Financial Times
    Independent
    Telegraph

Alternative News
    AlterNet
    Axis of Logic
    Rational Review
    Raw Story
    Sp!ked


  Icons of Liberty

    Bakunin, Mikhail
    Curtis, Edward C.
    de Cleyre, Voltairine
    Epictetus
    Haywood, Ezra
    Henry, Patrick
    Lane, Rose Wilder
    Rand, Ayn
    Schopenhauer, Arthur
    Spencer, Herbert
    Spooner, Lysander
    Thoreau, Henry David
    Tucker, Benjamin
    Warren, Josiah
    Whitman, Walt

(On Site)
    The Woman Question, Victor Yarros, 1888
    A Reply to Victor, Zelm (Sarah Holmes), 1888
    The Abolition of Marriage John Beverly Robinson, 1889
    The Anarchists, John Henry Mackay, 1891

Natural Law (Equal Freedom)
    Natural law, or The Science of Justice Lysander Spooner, 1882
    Vices Are Not Crimes, Lysander Spooner, 1875
    Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, Peter McWilliams, 1996
    The Principles of Ethics Herbert Spencer, 1897
    No Treason I, Lysander Spooner, 1867
    No Treason II: The Constitution, Lysander Spooner, 1867
    No Treason VI: The Constitution of No Authority, Lysander Spooner, 1870
    The Right to Ignore the State, Herbert Spencer, 1851
    Defending the Undefendable, Walter Block, 1976
    The Myth of Natural Rights, L. A. Rollins, 1984 (a review)

Philosophy
    The Manual, Epictetus, 135
    Essays, Michel de Montaigne, 1592
    The Wisdom of Life, Arthur Schopenhauer, 1850
    Isaiah's Job, Albert Jay Nock, 1937
    Philosophy: Who Needs It, Ayn Rand, 1982

Science
    QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Richard Feynman, 1988
    Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures Richard Feynman (on physics)

Economics
    The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith, 1776
    Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt, 1946
    I, Pencil, Leonard Read, 1958
    Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman, 1962
    Free to Choose, Milton and Rose Friedman, 1980 (review)
    The Case for Unilateral Free Trade and Open Immigration, Jacob G. Hornberger, 1995

Self-Improvement
    Do It - Let's Get Off Our Buts, Peter McWilliams, 1994
    The Guide to Getting It On, Paul Joannides, 1996
    How To Develop Self-Confidence... Through Public Speaking, Dale Carnegie, 1955
    How to Heal Depression, Peter McWilliams, 1994
    How to Survive the Loss of A Love, Peter McWilliams, 1991
    How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie, 1936
    Life 101, Peter McWilliams, 1994
    Love 101, Peter McWilliams, 1995
    The Memory Book, Harry Lorayne, 1986
    Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, 2000 (Rich Dad web page)


Videos and Movies

Documentaries
    America: Freedom to Fascism (2006) Aaron Russo
    American Zeitgest (2006) Rob McGann
       Zeitgest Addendum (2008) Peter Joseph
    Free to Choose (1980/90) Milton Friedman
    Money as Debt (2006) Paul Grignon   (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
    The Money Masters (1995) Bill Still
    TerrorStorm (2006) Alex Jones
    Waco: Rules of Engagement (1997) William Gazecki
    Who Killed the Electric Car (2006) Chris Paine

Interviews, Speeches and Shorts
    Aaron Russo Interview
    Architecture of a Prison Planet, Aaron Russo interviewed by Alex Jones
    Bush's War on Civil Liberties, James Bovard
    The Road to Serfdom in five minutes, Friedrich Hayek
    War and the Future of the Dollar, Lew Rockwell

Movies
    Brave New World (1980) Burt Brinkerhoff (book by Aldous Huxley, 1932)
    Brazil (1985) Terry Gilliam
    Gandhi (1982) Richard Attenborough
    In the Name of the Father (1993) Jim Sheridan
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) Michael Radford (book by George Orwell, 1949)
    The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Clint Eastwood
    Reefer Madness (1936) Louis J. Gasnier
    Reefer Madness: The Musical (2005) Andy Fickman
    Rob Roy (1995) Michael Caton-Jones
    THX 1138 (1971) George Lucas


Freedom Projects

Freedom Projects
    Great Books in an Historical Perspective (on site)
    Free State Project
    Seasteading
       Seasteading related info
       US Submarines: Underwater Habitats
   

  Freedom Organizations

    Advocates for Self-Government
    Alliance of the Libertarian Left
    Assoc. of Libertarian Feminists
    Buildfreedom.com
    Cato Institute
    Center for a Stateless Society
    Constitution Society
    DownsizeDC.org
    Foundation for Economic Education
    Freedom Activists Network
    Freedom Portal
 * Freedomain Radio
 * Fully Informed Jury Association
 * Future of Freedom Foundation
    ifeminists.com
    Internat'l Soc. for Individual Liberty
    James's Liberty file collection
    Just Cause Law Collective
 * Lew Rockwell.com
 * Ludwig von Mises Institute
 * Lysander Spooner.org
 * Memory Hole
 * Molinari Institute
    Money Masters
    NARAL: Pro-Choice America
    Restore the Repubilc
    Voluntaryist
    Women's Freedom Network

  New Hampshire Activists

    Anarchy In Your Head
    FreeKeene.com
    Free Minds TV/Radio
    Free State Project
    Free Talk Live
    Liberty Conspiracy
    Liberty Scholarship Fund
    New Hampshire Free Press
    New Hampshire Underground
    NH Common Sense
    NH Liberty Alliance
    Obscured Truth Network
    Republic of New Hampshire
    Ridley Report

  Library Resources

    Advodates for Self-Government
    Founding Documents
    Great Books Index
    Library of Constitutional Classics
    Library of Economics and Liberty
    Molinari Institute
    Online Books Page: Author search
    Online Library of Liberty
    Perseus Digital Library
    Internet Sacred Texts Archive
    Terra Libra Reports
    Center for Freedom and Prosperity

  War on Citizens

    Death By Government
    Legend of Ruby Ridge
    Rainbow Farm
    Randy Weaver: Siege at Ruby Ridge
    Waco: Rules of Engagement
    The Wall

  Freethought Organizations

    Secular Web: Internet Infidels
    Freedom From Religion Foundation
    Positive Atheism Magazine

  Churches

    Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
    Church of Reality
    Church of the SubGenius
    Discordian.com
          Pincipia Discordia
    Church of All Saints' Humor
       (under construction)

  Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll

    alt.polyamory
    Amer. Assoc. for Nude Recreation
    Poly Weekly
    Polyamory Society
    Scarleteen.com
    Sexuality.org
    XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

    Absinthe
    Bufo alvarius
       at Bouncing Bear Botanicals
    Cannibis.com
    Emperor Wears No Clothes
       at Jack Herer.com
    Hemp Farm
    Hemp Museum
    High Times
    Lycaeum
    Marijuana Policy Project
    Mushrooms and Mankind
       by James Arthur
    NORML
    Vaults of Erowid
    Virtual Absinthe Museum
    Webtender: An Online Bartender
    Wormwood Society

    Top40db.net


  Miscellany

Reference tool
    OneLook.com


 
Other Stuff
 

Science General

Science News
    ABC Science
    Archaeology
    Audubon Magazine
    Earth
    EurekAlert
    National Geographic
    Nature.com
    NewScientist
    Science Daily
    ScienceNews
    Scientific American
    World Science

Astronomy, Physics, etc.
    Meteor Showers Online
    Chemical Elements.com
    WebElements
    Nine Planets
    Picture of the Day
    Current Phase of the Moon
    Dictionary of Geology
    Pollen and Spore terminology
    Amethyst Gallery
    Mineralogy Database


Pseudo-Science
and other weirdness

Remote Viewing
    Skeptic's Take
    Psi Tech
    remote-viewing.com
    IRVA
    ARVARI
    Farsight Institute
    RVIS, Inc.
    Mind Sync
    Learn Remote Viewing
    WIRV

and Other Weirdness
    Jeff Rense Program
    Exit Mundi
    Viewzone
    Unorthodox Catastrophism
    Catastrophism
    Kronia
    SIS
    VArchive
    Velikovskian
    Ignatius Donnelly
    Holographic Universe
    Holographic Universe
    AEON
    Aquatic Ape Theory
    Hollow Earth Theory
    Sitchin.com
    The HAB Theory
    Hegiric Theory


Languages and Linguistics

Historical Linguistics
    Ethnologue Language Families
    Omniglot
    Paleolithic Indo-Europeans

Dictionaries and Etymology
    Indo-European Roots
    Semitic Roots
    Figures of Speech
    Etymologically Speaking
    Online Etymological Dict.
    Grandiloquent Dictionary
    Luciferous Logolepsy
    The Devil's Dictionary
       (mirror)

Word Play
    Verbivore
    Pun of the Day
    Sniglets

Language Learning
    Russian
    Chinese

Nature

Tree of Life
    Tree of Life Project
    Mikko's Phylogeny Web
    The Biology Project

Plants, Fungus, etc.
    Flora of North America
    The Fifth Kingdom,
    Lichen Herbarium
    Bioluminescent Mushrooms

Animals (- Arthropods)
    Animal Diversity Web
    Amphibiaweb
    Avibase
    Bat Conservation
    Birdnet
    Hummingbirds.net
    Raptor Center
    Reptile Channel

Arthropods
    SASI
    Ants of Arizona
    BugGuide.net
    Beetle Science
    Insect Hobbyist
    World Spider Catalog
    Spider Silk
    BBC BioSteel story
    EurekAlert BioSteel story
    Nexia Biotechnologies Ltd.
    BioQuip Products

Zoos and Botanical Gardens
    ASDM
    Phoenix Zoo
    San Diego Zoo
    Boyce Thompson Arboretum
    Desert Botanical Garden
    Tucson Botanical Garden

Parks and Recreation Areas
    Montezuma's Well
    Montezuma's Castle
    Casa Grande Ruins
    Ragged Top Mountains
    Thunder River

Field Guides
    eNature.com


Escape
Escape From America Mazagine

Earthship Fantasies
    Earthship Biotecture
    Backwoods Home Magazine
    Shipping Containers

Submarine Fantasies
    Nomad 1000
    Phoenix 1000
          (The Naughty Lass)

Amphibious RV Fantasies
    Terra Wind


Miscellaneous Fantasies

Non-Linear Chess
    Chess Variants


Miscellaneous Miscellanies


Great Books Timeline (work in progress)

Some of My Favorite Movies

Comedies
    Mel Brooks films
       Blazing Saddles (1974)
       High Anxiety (1977)
       History of the World, Part 1 (1981)
       Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
       Spaceballs (1987)
       Young Frankenstein (1974)
    Monty Python
       Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
       Life of Brian (1979)
       Meaning of Life (1983)
       Flying Circus episodes (1969-1974)
    Pink Panther movies
       The Pink Panther (1963)
       A Shot in the Dark (1964)
       Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
       The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976))
       Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
    Trey Parker, Matt Stone films
       South Park episodes (1997- )
       South Park: Bigger, Better, Uncut (1999)
       Team America: World Police (2004)
    Abrahams, Zucker, Proft, et al.
       Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
       Airplane! (1980)
       Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
       Police Squad! episodes (1982)
       Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
       Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
       Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
       Hot Shots! (1991)
       Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
       Spy Hard (1996)
       Wrongfully Accused (1998)
    Other Really Good Comedies
       Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981)
       Dr. Strangelove (1964)
       Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982)
       Kung Pow! (2002)
    Other Good Comedies
       Murder By Death (1976)
       Army of Darkness (1992)
       Howard the Duck (1986)
       Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
       Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

Nature Documentaries
    Life of Mammals (2002-2003)
       (but only disks 1 through 3)
    Life of Birds (1998)
    Life in the Undergrowth (2005)
    Winged Migration (2001)

Eastwood Westerns
    Fistful of Dollars (1964)
    For a Few Dollars More (1965)
    Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
    Hang em High (1968)
    Paint Your Wagon (1969)
    Two Mules for Sister Sarah (1970)
    Joe Kidd (1972)
    High Plains Drifter (1973)
    Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
    Pale Rider (1985)
    Unforgiven (1992)

Science Fiction
    Alien (1979)
    Aliens (1986)
    Blade Runner (1982)
    Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
    Dune (1984)
    Equilibrium (2002)
    Nineteen Eighty Four (1984)
    Planet of the Apes, (1968)
    Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969)
    Thing From Another World, (1951)

Kubrick Films
    Spartacus (1960)
    Lolita, (1962)
    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Other Favorites
    Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
    All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
    Das Boot (1981)
    Doctor Zhivago (1965)
    Dogs of War (1980)
    Falling Down (1993)
    Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
    Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
    In the Name of the Father (1993)
    Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
    Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
    Meatballs (1979)
    Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
    Moby Dick, (1956)
    Mr Holland's Opus (1995)
    Never Cry Wolf (1983)
    Pleasantville (1998)
    Rookie (2002)
    Sound of Music (1965)
    Stealing Home (1988)


 

   
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