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Journal: May 19, 2012
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                                                          Letter to Art Mirsky                                Joie de Vivre
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The letter was hand carried to Art Mirksy at an outdoor luncheon in his honor I attended at his convalescent home
in Indianapolis May 19, 2012 (below is the announcement I received in the mail).
Art (Dr.) Mirsky


I met Kim Greeman a fellow geology student at IUPUI (where Dr. Mirksy taught) who I hadn't seen since undergraduate years. Kim, who was staying temporarily at the same convalescent home, heard I was there. That was the straw that broke the camel's back: he decided to attend the luncheon and wheel-chaired down from his room.

He was my dope-smoking buddy at IUPUI. We picked our friendship right-up again like it was yesterday. We stayed in touch. He became my source of marijuana. A year later I joined him on his "planned for a long-time bucket list" trip through the western US. We (I mostly but his car) drove 16,000 miles in two months, May and June, crossing the Cordillara north-south and east-west several times each. He died several years later. We stayed in touch, I visited him in the hospital. That luncheon it seems was where I got to thank two people.
                                                                                      Morality
                                                                                Loose Leaf (ll)
PIESIN: .... then we hired decision analysts – the best – well, Jean Younker did. I just led the technical, Bruce Judd, Hollister Call, Warner North, east coast – west coast, who all concluded that more research was futile, unambiguously. This of course was opposite of “management’s” policy --- so no more decision analysis. I have heard little of it since.

Perhaps our case was typical, exposing policy absurdities -- so pulling the cloak of “politics” over things puts the lie to decision analysis’s “wrong” answer – so long truth in fact -- hello truth in image. PIESIN famous Yucca Mountain Project acronym from Carl Gertz statement at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Politics Is Everything Science Is Nothing". As if truth in fact ever had its day in the sun, N’est-ce Pas?

Child Sex Abuse: (my crime, so please excuse my bias) Mary Mitchell of the Sun Times described the boy in the Penn State shower room as “ruined for life”. Wow, what a terrible thing to tell a child. So, Mary, who is the abuser? What an abusive moniker to lay on someone, anyone, especially a child. I suspect you and many other indignant fellow travelers abuse far more than the couch did. The boy kept coming back as I understand it, for months if not years.

What if, just hypothetically of course, a thought experiment only, what if some part of the boy for some, any reason liked it? Maybe just a little bit, hypothetically of course. And you yell at him that he is ruined because he experienced a most heinous act of brutality from which he will never recover, and the guy is thinking, “I liked it, a little sometimes, so I must be a most heinous sinner deep, deep down, God help me, for I am ruined, Mary told me so.”

The guilt – oh, oh, oh the guilt you throw so easily. Is it possible even that such indignation is but a mask to deflect any suspicion of such heinous sins in yourself. You scream, “LOOK AT ME – Look at my indignation! Would I of such indignation entreat such desires? Not me. God, I condemn to hell such heinous sexual sinners.” Amen. Just a question, Mary, and the following observation. “Clear mirrors reveal moles”, not that moles are bad mind you.