Worked for the Goldwater campaign while in high school in New Jersey.
Served as a second and first lieutenant with the 58th Signal Battalion at Fort Lewis (1971-73).
Resident of San Luis Obispo, a community halfway between Sodom (San Francisco) and Gomorra (Los Angeles). The urban ills of both cities are absent here except for the homeless and a state college.
Member of American Legion Post #66.
Nationalist, populist, small-l libertarian and deist in the honored tradition of Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin.
Student of American history in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War.
Student of classical music with the accent on chamber music and lieder.
Led our FReeper Book Club on the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers. Turned it into The Gospels of the American Civic Religion: The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, Annotated and Explicated; currently seeking publisher.