User:Bobdobbs1723

I am a hopelessly unemployed computer geek, located in the heartland of the American west, scene of the telecommunications meltdown. With all the extra time on my hands, I've decided to improve my writing skills by endlessly posting here until I become bored. At least I'm honest about my motivations! And hey, if you need a geek who can write (after a healthy edit), give me a call! <GRIN>

I used to believe that I possessed the ability to take any side of any issue, and argue passionately about it. However, as my work on the Electoral College will show, if I have trouble formulating logical supporting points of the opposition, I have trouble writing the opposition effectively. It doesn't matter if the logic is flawed or downright evil, as long as it is logical.

As an example, I'm a life long Anarcho-capitalist, and Libertarian / libertarian. I find it strangely entertaining arguing about (for one small example) the moral, philosophical, economic, and political advantages of Nazism, even though I personally passionately disagree.

This causes me *more* problems as I write on Wikipedia. Rather than this ability providing me an easy way to write 'neutrally', I find it *very* difficult. I reject the 'objective' stance on principle. I would prefer to have contentious debates resolved not by striving to write every article 'neutrally', but by having rabid partisan debate provide me each polarized position, along with those poor fools who muddle along somewhere in the middle. Again, to illustrate, look at the Talk page of Electoral College. That polarized debate - rather than someone attempting to write NPOV - is creating a much better article.

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Current interests include:

• Brandenburgistan (http://www.nuui.com/brandenburgistan) located on my website,

• Noah's Usually Useless Information (http://www.nuui.com)

• The Church of the SubGenius The Church of the Subgenius (http://www.subgenius.com)

• Anarchism

• Military history, Military Technology

• Amazing Scientific Advances, especially in applied technology and materials science

• Current events: Drudge Report (http://www.drudgereport.com), DebkaFile (http://www.debka.com), Global Security (http://globalsecurity.org), Jane's (http://www.janes.com), Intl. Herald Tribune (http://www.iht.com/frontpage), Misc. smaller outlets (http://newslink.org/altnews), for starters.

• Geopolitics

• Mass Media communication skills

• Philosophy: Metaphysics, Moral Agency

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This is a list of things I have hacked in the Wiki (disambiguation and copyedit stuff not included). Everything I written in the Wikipedia has been edited. In every case, as I have hoped of this shining example of applied anarchism, the result of editing my ranting is a much improved product.

Note to friends of mine (who keep bothering me about this): If you want to know which pieces of articles I have written, or otherwise how I've been edited, click the History option located on the left side of the browser in its own frame. This will show you how the piece has evolved. Again, everything I've written has been improved by editing, so this really should not matter. But if you need to cite it for something and it is important, you might want to cite both the link, and the revision (by date).

Items I have changed or otherwise contributed to

• Pledge of Allegiance

• Nazism (The part about Nazi economic theory)

• Anarchism

• United States Libertarian Party

• DRoA (Basically took info. and incorporated it and then linked to the Soviet Invasion Page)

Items I have so heavily edited that they are basically new

• Mongol

• Military

• Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

• Rocket propelled grenade

• United States armed forces

Items I have created

• Electoral College

• Military Science

• Francis Bellamy

• Disenfranchising

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Things To Do:

• Try to cajole others interested in military issues to plan an overall strategy for the military / war subsection in Wikispace. The goal is to have a coherent work that can be referenced throughout Wikispace (via any entrance) that will flow toward root concepts. In this way, someone can educate themselves about military matters and be able to apply that knowledge to the specific (usually non-military) question they asked of the 'pedia.

• Edit War, add to Strategy (Military), create Operational Art[?], add to Tactics, and find a way to describe the over-all set of relationships.

• Completely re-write Libertarian Party

• Add thoughts to Conspiracy

• Add and morph Church of the Subgenius

• Learn formatting, and why the preview feature doesn't work - so I don't have to re-post constantly to fix minor mistakes when I post.