The items found on this blog were written during the past few years and strictly reflect my own opinions. Because these articles deal with difficult issues they are bound to be controversial. They reflect my personal analysis based on the limited information that I have. I am certainly no expert and fully respect different opinions. Difficult issues would not be difficult if there were clear-cut answers. Although you will see in reading some of my material, I don't like being pigeonholed with a label, I will admit to being politically independent with a tendency to be more conservative fiscally and slightly more liberal with regard to social issues. Having lived through the 1940's, I have a great appreciation for the sacrifices made by our armed forces and, in fact, all Americans during World War II. The greatness of this country shone bright as we rehabilitated and rebuilt our enemies after winning that war. I am very patriotic and proud of our country. While we are far from perfect, we're not as far from that ideal as most other countries in the world.

Books

This is a book of factual essays relevant to today's world. The lead essay investigates the question of whether or not absolute reality exists in either the material or the subjective (spiritual) realm. Other essays deal with human behavior, nannyism in politics and cultural relativism.



A Path To The Gold: Achieving Success in Life by Making Great Decisions (2009)

I've written a book about making good decisions.  In fact, by using the process that I call "Probabilistic Rationalism", you can be confident of making your "best possible decisions" even in situations involving a considerable degree of uncertainty.

"Probabilistic Rationalism" is a simplified version of a  semi-quantitative technique used by businesses to make complex decisions, often with multimillion dollar consequences.

This book is designed to be used by the average person faced with the multitude of decisions encountered in everyday life.  In many cases, decisions made can have a significant impact on a person's life where making one's best decisions can lead to a gold medal in that most important game, "the game of life".  

The intent of this book is to outline a relatively simple yet systematic process for making good decisions. This semi- quantitative process is used in a very specific way to achieve one’s best possible decision for reaching a well-defined goal. In this sense, the best possible decision is that decision which, depending on the knowledge of the person or persons making the decision, has the greatest probability of achieving the desired goal.
The book is not intended to address the academic subjects of how decisions are made, the nature of decisions or the psychology of decision-making.



This rare and unique work consists of a broad overview of hyperviscosity, blood cell deformability, and platelet aggregation. These topics are written in combination with a comprehensive review of drugs bring developed to treat impaired oxygen delivery to tissue. It devotes much attention to the pathophysiology and pharmacology of platelet and red cell involvement. This easy-to-use volume describes in detail techniques for studying microcirculatory functional efficiency, blood cell rheology, and intravascular platelet thrombosis. It also provides the reader with more than 50 figures and nearly 1500 references at a glance.

This book is an indispensable resource for all pharmaceutical researchers, physicians, and medical students interested in emerging therapeutic approaches to ischemia.