Category:Essays (nonfiction)
From Gnomon Chronicles
Pages in category "Essays (nonfiction)"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,516 total.
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- A bag of foul gas
- A bag of gas and bluster
- A better idea
- A better man
- A better man than you
- A big store prop for the longest long con in history
- A bit of a Harpy
- A black hole
- A bootlick and a blackguard
- A bottomless pit of hunger and cruelty
- A bottomless pit of insecurity
- A bulwark against misunderstanding
- A casino developer who loses millions upon millions yet keeps getting more loans
- A child at heart
- A code ever
- A combination of anthropology, comparative religion, neuropathology, and theater arts
- A constabulary divided
- A crown gem among the liberal cities
- A cruel quartermaster
- A Cure for Solipsism
- A dangerous tool
- A detective on the case
- A drinking problem, except it's not drink
- A drop of rage
- A face that only the Devil (and half the rest of humanity) could love
- A father's first priority
- A fine line
- A foreign call on my answering machine
- A foul-mouthed sailor who appears to delight in spreading a stink
- A Gate From Somewhere
- A giant headache
- A going concern
- A joke in poor taste
- A line against excessive absurdism must be drawn somewhere
- A little dangerous is a learning thing
- A man is just a deformed centaur
- A man is known by the company he keeps
- A man who wants something from free
- A manifesto with no demands
- A Mars-like environment here on Earth, with cities everywhere
- A matrix of promises
- A million deck chairs
- A number of bright shiny objects
- A Pile of Dirtbags
- A process person
- A projection of our desire for personal immortality
- A quick drink or permanent sobriety
- A raging steel bull in a demolition derby
- A reality bias
- A robot and a sentient walk into a bar
- A sad political divide
- A satirist, not a nutritionist
- A scary three and a half seconds
- A secular humanist among Ely Presbyterians
- A secular religious upbringing
- A serendipity moment
- A servant of the Muses
- A sharing problem
- A Side-Quest to the Land of Nod
- A sitting Congressman incapable of shame
- A slithering need
- A slur on humanity, and beneath our dignity
- A small price to pay
- A snail planter on their walkway column
- A snake's nest of blackmail and extortion
- A special place in hell
- A succession of remarkable coincidences
- A surface treatment of gritty facts
- A tar-like residue of truth
- A tarnished reward
- A term of art, a wrinkle in time
- A terrible thought
- A thief in the night, angels unaware
- A token handful of cranks
- A true accounting of wealth in America
- A vague appetite for sex
- A vast and all-consuming mouth
- A waste of Hell
- A weather report
- A wild card operator * for political positions
- A wild frontier town in its day
- A Wild Man in the Forest
- A word you're saying
- A world where animals other than us drink milk after infancy
- A world with only orchestral music
- A zombie, a racist, and an ophthalmologist walk into a bar
- Abortion
- Abortion must be accommodated
- About the Home Page
- Abridged is a good as a bridle
- Abstract Art
- Absurd recontexualization
- Act in the service of an ideal
- Actual assassination may differ from gauzy accounts by former Kennedy White House alums
- Ad hominem
- Addiction and shame
- Advertising is a parasitic organism
- After becoming a monster
- Age and ambiguity
- Age of Virus Variants
- Ahab is the sanest of men
- AI boom gets what it deserves
- Alexander Hamilton, American toady
- All action is compromise
- All anger feels the same
- All babies resemble Winston Churchill
- All else is fungible
- All endings are attended by sadness
- All experiments are successful
- All I am saying is give Rand a chance
- All living creatures have souls
- All men are secretly insecure about their manhood
- All my love to my Muslim friends
- All the predictive analytics you will ever need
- All the satire went out me
- All thought is rehearsal for what is to come
- Almost all fast food meals
- Always a carry a nipple ring
- Amateur polymath
- America and Organized Crime
- America Because Israel
- American Civil Wars
- American illiteracy versus Somalians
- American Sniper celebrates the lone killer
- American tourists will keep England afloat forever
- An adjudicated sexual predator, and President
- An artist should not become dependent on outcomes
- An excess of eternity
- An orderly gathering of well-dressed citizens
- An uneducated blowhard
- Anatomy is a cruel science
- Ancestry tests
- And having enabled moves on
- And now we know it
- And we are too many
- And women were queens
- And Yet
- Anger makes people stupid
- Another Twitter?
- Answers that are hard to question unless the question is Why?
- Antebellum, cerebellum, whatever it takes
- Anthropology makes the answer breathtakingly obvious
- Anyone can play the cello
- Anything to do with Trump
- AOC will never be President
- Apology tarnishes the luster of satire
- Appalling and horrific behavior
- Approximately ignorant
- Are the meek responsible for evil?
- Are you a work of art yet?
- Are you in love with yourself?
- Army-Navy games
- Arranged breakups
- Arrest is trending on Twitter
- Art Cake
- Art in its purest form
- Art instigates life
- Art is long, life is brave
- Art or craft?
- As it happens
- As through a glass darkly
- As usual for Washington
- Aspiring writer
- Asshole philosophy
- Atheism is pointless
- Atheists are always talking about logic
- Automatic Weapon
- Available for a limited time only
- Awareness Exists
- Away to the bosom of Morpheus
- Ayn Rand, the mendacious Aristotle
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- Baby Jesus crepuscular rays
- Bad cop disease
- Banana now
- Bastard
- Bath Time for Books, Oh!
- Be More Like Me
- Bears
- Beautiful inappropriate boundaries
- Because Me
- Because we are political allies
- Because you are a fool
- Beer is Manly
- Before the smell rises
- Begging the Sparta fanboys
- Beheadings all the way down
- Being angry
- Belief proved false causes terror
- Beliefs
- Believe in the ones who love you
- Believers
- Best Ever Guitar Solo
- Best of Goodnight
- Best thing of the day
- Bet she's got a gun safe and no library (nonfiction)
- Better Not
- Better than ordinary people
- Better than our enemies
- Better to break 50,000 in Hell than serve justice in Heaven
Media in category "Essays (nonfiction)"
The following 197 files are in this category, out of 197 total.
A Bootlick and a Blackguard.png 650 × 800; 27 KB
A Boy and His Dog - Hal Baylor.jpg 450 × 339; 37 KB
A malignant narcissist whose only concern is his appetites.jpg 500 × 653; 77 KB
A million deck chairs.jpg 653 × 499; 85 KB
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A succession of remarkable coincidences.jpg 1,026 × 499; 65 KB
A true accounting of wealth in America - Trump and Weisselberg.jpg 1,294 × 500; 145 KB
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A True Accounting of Wealth in American (short form).jpg 1,125 × 499; 66 KB
A vague appetite for sex (tweet).png 498 × 858; 261 KB
A zombie, a racist, and an ophthalmologist walk into a bar.jpg 1,022 × 400; 77 KB
According to this poll, not according to me.jpg 500 × 638; 60 KB
AI boom gets what it deserves.jpg 500 × 733; 92 KB
All babies resemble Winston Churchill.jpg 500 × 599; 53 KB
Army-Navy games - Call in an air strike.jpg 500 × 552; 61 KB
Art is long, life is brave 2.jpg 1,078 × 500; 104 KB
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Better to break 50000 in Hell than serve justice in Heaven.jpg 512 × 500; 63 KB
Bugs Bunny is a Sociopath.jpg 522 × 500; 88 KB
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Cathedral Cake.jpg 544 × 680; 102 KB
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Christ, how I hate Greensleeves.jpg 808 × 500; 93 KB
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Do what I say shall be the whole of the Law - Putin to Trump.jpg 500 × 523; 54 KB
Do your work - Only the work matters.jpg 800 × 500; 108 KB
Donald Trump - We love you.jpg 500 × 750; 135 KB
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Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.jpg 547 × 456; 57 KB
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Hockey Shame - Honoring the world's most notorious pedophile.jpg 500 × 590; 91 KB
Homosexual lovers make better soldiers.jpg 929 × 500; 54 KB
Hope springs eternal but usually too soon.jpg 615 × 500; 97 KB
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How I Play a Taylor Swift Record.png 2,400 × 500; 314 KB
How many limousines make up a heap.jpg 500 × 656; 108 KB
I am clinging to the moon and stars with all my might.jpg 750 × 500; 136 KB
I am not a guest in your home until you invite me in.jpg 500 × 847; 88 KB
I Despise Bugs Bunny (tweet).jpg 458 × 538; 89 KB
I Have Reasons.jpg 500 × 685; 86 KB
I lower the bar.jpg 500 × 666; 71 KB
I set you on fire it was most likely an accident.jpg 500 × 500; 66 KB
I think we can all agree.jpg 500 × 716; 64 KB
I would drop a mind-control parasite in Judge Cannon's ear.jpg 500 × 528; 39 KB
I'm not antisocial, I just prefer my own thoughts.jpg 500 × 500; 76 KB
If I were a Destroyer God.jpg 257 × 360; 36 KB
If Science Doesn't Work (tweet).jpg 494 × 978; 153 KB
If there is such a thing as reincarnation.jpg 510 × 500; 74 KB
Industrial Humans - That's Just Fuckin' Great.jpg 850 × 475; 119 KB
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Irony holds pride in check - Karl Gregory Jones.jpg 734 × 1,000; 313 KB
Is the Iliad a rape-and-revenge story.jpg 500 × 587; 97 KB
It is what it is.jpg 1,074 × 499; 129 KB
Jim Jordan - Traitor Designee.jpg 555 × 500; 89 KB
Joyce Carol Oates on Elon Musk.jpg 798 × 603; 198 KB
Kanye West on the murder of George Floyd.jpg 500 × 628; 88 KB
Karl Jones - San Diego Zoo -When I Was a Young Man.jpg 425 × 583; 81 KB
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Lack of will to migrate away from coastal cities.jpg 1,451 × 800; 354 KB
Laura Loomer isn't White enough for Hitler.jpg 500 × 751; 86 KB
Let's all be snipers (Twitter).jpg 690 × 754; 111 KB
Lightning does not dream of fireflies.jpg 711 × 500; 51 KB
Make Me a Ham Sandwich, HAL.jpg 588 × 337; 41 KB
Man is a V-1 Rocket.jpg 500 × 640; 52 KB
Marjorie Taylor Green, Nut Shooter.jpg 523 × 500; 55 KB
Marry Me, Cary Grant.jpg 609 × 500; 63 KB
Matrix - Introspection.jpg 500 × 663; 62 KB
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Modern Americans can't write for shit.jpg 763 × 500; 114 KB
Money to the Beggars.jpg 602 × 499; 104 KB
Move aside, satire coming through (FB).jpg 513 × 386; 66 KB
Mr. Johnson, show the court where the sexual abuse occurred.jpg 500 × 695; 130 KB
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My First Program by Karl Jones.jpg 1,000 × 1,400; 142 KB
My suffering is worse (GC).jpg 1,366 × 1,023; 255 KB
My superpower is serendipity - Cosmos clock-cycle.jpg 558 × 447; 69 KB
No one knows more about numbers than Donald Trump.jpg 500 × 616; 81 KB
None of your business how I choose to educate my child.jpg 591 × 499; 69 KB
Obscenity by Karl Gregory Jones.jpg 500 × 623; 82 KB
Oh really.jpg 526 × 499; 70 KB
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Other than that, Mrs. Goebbels, how as the strudel.jpg 500 × 521; 61 KB
Overture to the U.S. Capitol March.jpg 564 × 500; 55 KB
People are not interchangeable.jpg 500 × 500; 87 KB
President Biden.jpg 1,000 × 750; 204 KB
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Raisins - the Famine Fruit.jpg 554 × 500; 86 KB
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Shall we live without a plan for Eternity.jpg 500 × 517; 89 KB
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Tending Plato's Elephant.jpg 1,111 × 500; 116 KB
Thank you for re-tweeting.jpg 1,074 × 500; 126 KB
Thank you for sharing my work.jpg 1,065 × 499; 119 KB
The Apprentice was a sham.jpg 715 × 500; 81 KB
The best time of year to fall in love.jpg 500 × 699; 78 KB
The Boil.jpg 2,100 × 900; 180 KB
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The difference between a weapon and tool.jpg 500 × 601; 52 KB
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The good thing about Science - Neil deGrasse Tyson.jpg 960 × 498; 28 KB
The Gospel of Prosperity.jpg 1,000 × 900; 119 KB
The Human Condition.jpg 729 × 1,000; 87 KB
The One Ring, Boromir, and the Hays Code.jpg 736 × 800; 225 KB
The Puppet Masters - Stephen Miller.jpg 791 × 402; 71 KB
The real pandemic is the hate in our hearts.jpg 750 × 421; 109 KB
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The Westward Expansion never ended.jpg 742 × 717; 136 KB
The world is so full of a number of monsters.jpg 500 × 640; 66 KB
There is no destination, only the journey.jpg 693 × 500; 116 KB
There is no They, only You.jpg 980 × 490; 64 KB
Thoughts and Prayers or Cheers and Applause.jpg 500 × 564; 58 KB
Three is a Quorum.jpg 1,200 × 811; 275 KB
To slime we shall descend.jpg 500 × 648; 107 KB
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Unmatched since William Blake saw God.jpg 500 × 711; 112 KB
We are the irregular verbs in the language of creation.jpg 500 × 588; 58 KB
We come from slime.jpg 500 × 648; 106 KB
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What a Slur Does.png 1,000 × 1,211; 52 KB
What crimes will they not commit.jpg 500 × 637; 102 KB
What good is authentic connection with other human beings.jpg 508 × 499; 48 KB
What is the Gnomon Chronicles.jpg 1,065 × 499; 107 KB
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When I say Bugs Bunny is despicable I mean that shit.jpg 1,299 × 500; 124 KB
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With great power comes great defenstration.jpg 1,000 × 1,226; 264 KB
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