Category Archives: Sample Essays

Some examples of essays written for APA zines. Yes, I’m that old.

We See Clearly the Whites of Their I’s

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Like Trump, Putin displays Dunning Kruger effect, thinking his narrow, bitter, and paranoid view is genius, hugely over-estimating his own intelligence while deprecating everyone else’s.  Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, NK’s Kims, Noriega, Khomeini, Saddam, Pinochet, Marcos, Mussolini, Ceaușescu, Vlad … Continue reading →

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Stealing the Virgin Frescoes of Innocent Mirth From the Temple of Universal Corruption

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Gene Stewart

Too much of science ends up having been debunkery, meaning plausible explanations without merit once actual research is allowed, once actual evidence is considered, once open discourse is permitted. Megalithic structures such as those of Ancient Egypt, with impossibly precise … Continue reading →

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Books, Music, Atoms, Electrons, & You

Posted on October 18, 2021 by Gene Stewart

I don’t like publishing at ALL and I think there’s room for a total revamp. Thing is, getting product to customer. This requires defining product. As cited in Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte, it’s a matter of atoms versus electrons.  … Continue reading →

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Hemingway’s Body Armor

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Gene Stewart

There was no excuse to offer and he offered none for the way he acted at times, the things he said or wrote. Hemingway summed it up once. “When I write I’m an artist. When I’m done writing I’m a … Continue reading →

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Brief Discussion of Writing and Life

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Gene Stewart

What has me so stricken is simply that, for my entire childhood I was lied to. In my teen years I realized this and saw through much of it, and everything that’s happened since only confirms the hopeless negatives.  Universal … Continue reading →

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So …

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Gene Stewart

How many more days?

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We Won’t

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Gene Stewart

Micro tremors people don’t notice are blamed by skeptics for ghost sightings. Disorients them, it’s claimed. Sure, a dizzy or blurred instant from a tremor might boggle someone, but can an unnoticed shiver of the earth prompt hallucinations?  Skeptics also … Continue reading →

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How Long? (Ben Franklin Wants to Know)

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Gene Stewart

In 1955, ten years before her mysterious death, celebrity journalist Dorothy Kilgallen — now there’s an Irish drinking name, even though she was American and sober — heard a story while on vacation in Britain from a high-ranking military officer … Continue reading →

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Pulping Racism

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Gene Stewart

Racism has a pulpy core, softened by rot. The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer is a romp but oh the racism and oh the overwrought emotion, yikes. Yellow Peril stuff, saving ‘the White Race’ therefrom, and crammed with racial … Continue reading →

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Poof! Gone

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Gene Stewart

Planes have flown into clouds and vanished. No wreckage fell or was found. There are quite a few incidents of this type. Many are witnessed by large numbers of people. Being inexplicable, such events fade in memory and mention. The … Continue reading →

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