Arthur Frederick Ide

Born in Iowa. Raised Lutheran. Became Southern Baptist for one woman. Converted to Roman Catholicism for a different woman. Now, happy having given up childish things, I recognize no religion, no creed, no authority other than intellect and scientific investigation and analysis. Educated nationally and internationally, and still hunger to learn more. My life centers around reading, investigation, research, and translation. The end-purpose, for me, is writing what can be verified without faith or imprimatur.

Ethics, human/civil rights and liberties & Warren J. Blumenfeld

Ethics, untaught, unlearned, not used, have no value. It takes a competent, dedicated and articulate individual to make the study, mastery and use of ethics effective and lasting. Ethics are universal: defining and separating right and wrong. Ethics ignores limitations, discrimination and retaliations that are foibles to mortal nature and the dignity of the individual.  …

Ethics and Intellectual Property: Essential but Tools Ignored Tools for Scholarship in favor of Plagiarism and Popular Knowledge

Ethicists argue that ethics  is a requirement for human life.  The question is:  does human life require ethics to sustain, develop and grow what is essential for life as it is currently defined? Generalists refer to ethics as “moral principles” but differ on their authorship and who is responsible for any or all questions, arguments or definitions of …

Ethics, Morality, and Intellectual Property rights in theory and fact

The ancient Greeks were among the first people to consider ethics, intellectual property and rights of individual in society. The Greeks “created” (δημιουργήθηκε) ethics (from the Greek word ethos: ἦθος, ἔθος, plurals: ethe (ἤθη), ethea (ἤθεα) that came from χαρακτήρας: character that had the originally meaning of accustomed place. It first appeared as a place …

Duke faculty reject plan for it to join online consortium | Inside Higher Ed

Duke faculty reject plan for it to join online consortium | Inside Higher Ed. This is the best, most clearly and concisely written article on long-distance learning that I have read in years.  The author offers hope for a return to strict standards [1. Pride, J. B. (1979). Sociolinguistic aspects of language learning and teaching. Oxford, …

Bob Vander Plaats, Tom Shaw and Dwayne Alons: hatemongers, genocide incendiaries and Christian terrorists

Iowa’s leading libertine, most  unreticent and outspoken advocate of  execrative invidious misanthropic, misopolemical, mordacious, hate-filled, [1. http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/07/19/272459/family-leaders-bob-vander-plaats-erupts-in-laughter-at-faggot-joke-thats-pretty-good/?mobile=nc.] advocate and apologist for unlimited genocide against the LGBT community and women who make a choice in contradiction to his own agenda for self-righteousness, and a return to an age of darkness, [2. http://www.qcmississippimud.com/bob-vander-plaats-anti-civil-rights-hate-monger.shtml] Bob Vander Plaats of West Des …

Iowa State Sen. Dennis Guth: A Study in Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Self-Loathing, and Lack of Education

On April 17, 2013, at the beginning of the Iowa Senate workday, the most junior Senator from Klemme, Dennis Guth, a man of the soil but without serious learning and no solid education beyond an initial degree in agriculture. He has no training in medical, psychological or psychiatric sciences, or in any of the social sciences.  Guth …

Ignorance increasing in Iowa: Idiots in the Legislature, Predators in Pulpits

Iowa Legislature: House of Representatives

Iowa Legislature: House of Representatives Nine self-righteous sedentary state Representatives in Iowa: Tom Shaw (R-Pocahontas), Greg Heartsill (R-Melcher-Dallas), Dwayne Alons (R-Hull), Jason Schultz (R-Schleswig), Robert Bacon (R-Maxwell [1. Bacon releases no personal information on the Iowa Republican Legislators website]), Larry Sheets (R-Exline), Kevin Koester (R-Ankeny), Joel Fry (R-Osceola), and slothful sciolistic Sandy Salmon (R-Janesville [2. …