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The Wise Sloth Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction from the E-book that explains a bit
Give me a MacArthur Fellowship so I can open an intellectual monastery
Why someone should sponsor The Wise Sloth
What I'm going to do once I'm rich
The Wise Sloth: A collection of the 92 best blogs from this site up to July 2012
Visit The Wise Sloth Institute
Add The Wise Sloth to your Reddit feed
Chapter 1: Comics
Highway to the Thunderdome!
Highway to the Thunderdome!
State of the Union (short political comics)
The Land Lord
Taxation Without Representation
Some are more equal than others
Life after George Washington
Basic Training Explained
The Officer Corps explained
The back end of the S.O.P.A. issue
7 Steps to becoming a billionaire (a response to people who say protesters should just get jobs)
Americans getting hand outs
Intervention with a Pop Star: Part 1
Intervention with a Pop Star: Part 2
The Equality Myth
The Tent Issue
Veterans protesting in Oakland
Protesting in America
Political Campaign Finance 101
economics 101
University 101
Written film script version of State of the Union
Occupy LOL Street
Occupy LOL Street: A Brave New Village
Occupy LOL Street: The Butterfly Effect
Occupy LOL Street: A For Anonymous
Occupy LOL Street: The People's Party
Occupy LOL Street and the Constitutional Convention
Occupy LOL Street and the Plight of the Homeless
Occupy LOL Street: The LOL Cats Save Christmas
Occupy LOL Street: The Freedom Flotilla
Occupy LOL Street: The Burden of Responsibility
Occupy LOL Street: The Guilded Age
Occupy LOL Street: The Wizard of LULZ
Occupy LOL Street: Adventures in Lobbying
Illustrated Parables
A Brief History of the Working Class
A Story About a Girl Who Opens a Secular Monastery (illustrated)
A Story About Marijuana Prohibition
A Story About Reddit Island
A Story About the Power of Voting
A Story About Serving in the U.S. Military
A Story About Net Neutrality
A Story About Cairo, Illinois
A Story About Collaborating With Anonymous Internet Users
Comics About Religion
The Island of Mana: Part 1
This was your life: part 1
This was your life: part 2
Two Conservative Ladies
Two Conservative Ladies
Two Conservative Ladies #2
Two Conservative Ladies #3
Two Conservative Ladies #4
Two Conservative Ladies #5
Two Conservative Ladies #6
Two Conservative Ladies #7
Two Conservative Ladies # 8
Two Conservative Ladies #9
An open letter to conservative America
An open letter to liberal America
Two Conservative Ladies: The sketch comedy script
Two Positive Ladies
Two Positive Ladies #1
Two Positive Ladies #2
Two Positive Ladies #3
Two Positive Ladies #4
Two Positive Ladies #5
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth
How to make your own deep thoughts memes
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth # 1
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth # 2
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth # 3
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth # 4
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #5
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #6
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #7
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #8
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #9
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #10
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #11
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #12
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #13
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #14
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #15
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #16
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #17
Deep Thoughts by The Wise Sloth #18
Chapter 2: Economics and Business
A sustainable economic model
7 reasons minnimum wage should be higher
The injustice of employee contracts
What it's like to be poor
We need to do more to help people get the job that's right for them
Why do so many small businesses fail?
Collapse is the product of unsustainability. Sustainability is the product of sustainability.
Stop treating people like shit and they'll start giving a fuck
The legacy of a billionaire
A novel approach to taxing the rich
The housing market is a crime against humanity
Business changes the world
Professionalism is a straitjacket
The fundamental problem with the economy
The letter i'll never send my ceo
Cost/benefit analysis of economic oppression
7 ways worker's rights need to improve
On finding someone to blame for the economic crisis
On Obama's platform of change and how it inspired the american culture
If you can't buy salvation on credit then buy a bunker
The economy needs a love stimulus
Being a conspiracy theorist is good business
The cash register is a ballot box. one dollar equals one vote
Here i just bitch about how expensive everything is
Here i bitch about how expensive everything is again
You can tell who your friends are by who gives you the friend discount
On economic slavery
An argument to socialize the banks
Why your boss sucks
Life Path Flow Chart
But does it have to be so hard to retire?
An ode to first world problems
What's the difference between expensive wine and cheap wine?
Chapter 3: Education
The Alphabits Analogy (Why it's bad to be stupid)
They're giving away free super powers at the library
1 way to improve college education
The quality of our leaders reflects the quality of our higher education system
The Glass Ceiling of Higher Education
Using art to educate large, anonymous groups of people
How do you create an intelligent society?
The entry i submitted to Google's 10x100 contest
Media for smart people
Silver Bullets and Butterfly Wings
School and work should be fun, and it can be.
Chapter 4: Military
The War Debt
American soldiers aren't heroes, they're victims
You can support the ucmj or the troops but not both
Parallels between the stanford prison experiment and student leaders in military tech school
Objectively quantifying the heroism of the troops
5 reasons not to join the united states military
Everything i learned about military strategy i learned from playing real time strategy games
An overdue critique of the military caste system
Lessons civilians can learn from the military
The military is a cult
Why I can't salute the flag
State of the Troops Address on the 10th Anniversary of September 11th
10 Reasons teachers are better leaders than military officers
An open letter to the U.S. military
Chapter 5: Mythology
14 reasons i'm extremely hesitant to debate christians
15 signs your church is a cult
How believers can witness to nonbelievers
Christians. You believe in science.
10 signs you should stop pretending to be a christian
Christianity is mythology or a hamburger is a hamburger
10 reasons christianity will drive you insane
7 ways the bible will make you an immoral person
11 ways christianity ruins society
Disproving the bible with sex
How christianity was largely responsible for the holocaust
Is god a lover or a fighter?
Religion 101 final exam
Prophets and cognitive dissonance
10 ways to be a better christian witness on the internet
Holding christians accountable
Religious darwinism
The power of prayer
This was your life
The Dali Lama may be nice, but he still pretends to be a mythological being
A more realistic take on the 10 commandments
On traditional christian-american values
What is sin?
It's time to stop celebrating Easter
It's time to stop celebrating Christmas
The christmas test
The christmas spirit
Why not have christmas on march 25th?
Christmas deniers and holocaust deniers
The reason for the season
Inequality Appreciation Day
Chapter 6: Philosophy/Ethics
What is philosophy?
Reading for truth
The cosmic perspective
Ode to Humanity
The value of life
The value of knowledge
Your ability to think obligates you to
Life is an existential dilemma: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
My secular theory on ethics
Ethics without religion -you're already doing it
Another attempt at explaining my secular theory on ethics
The danger in telling people life has no meaning
Cost/benefit analysis of hedonism
Why I like strip clubs
Life is war
How to solve a problem using a team
We have never raised an entire generation of adults, ever
11 ways mainstream academic philosophy has come to resemble religion
My prediction on the legalization of euthenasia
Morality in american culture
Why it's important to know the meaning of life
On passing moral judgement on drug users
The tao of booze
How to think critically
My theory on sexual morality
7 steps to becoming a genius
Ignorance will take its toll
America is a philosophical wasteland
Why i don't like strip clubs
The importance of intellectual standards
Asking penetrating questions about sexual morality
The virtue of immorality
Sometimes villains are heroes
What is a pseudo-intellectual?
If chivalry isn't dead then kill it
When is forgiveness justified?
The rise of the vagrant intellectuals
The american burqa
An agnostic take on god
An agnostic take on pascal's wager
Sanity, reality, truth, religion and science
An agnostic take on intelligent design
Agnostic nihilism
Agnostic atheism
The science of thought
On atheists misusing the celestial teapot analogy
Where do atheists get their morals?
Reason vs faith: part 1, part 2
Should reason be considered a legal religion?
On legislating morality
Virtue is reason, which is based on knowledge that can obsolesce
Should you let friends borrow money?
Chapter 7: Politics and World Issues
Stop talking about guns and start talking about poverty
Things Obama won't change in his next four years as president
Conservative Americans, you don't need to overthrow your government to make the world a
better place.
Americans, you're not represented in the 2012 presidential election
Why I kind of hope Romney wins in 2012
Why I'm not sure if we need another big Occupy Wall Street style protest
Why Obamacare made me face palm
Why you should not have faith in your government
An American Expat Visits the "Occupy Auckland" protest.
The Issue of Race in the #Occupy movement
An intervention with the police
Predictions on the Occupy Wall St. Protest
Thoughts on police who beat up protesters
Change Begets Change. Dollars Beget Dollars.
The Big Conspiracy Theory
Cost/Benefit Analysis of Terrorism
A better way to riot
The psychology behind the game theory of revolution
Borders are inhumane
What do you get for your taxes?
A Discussion about Osama Bin Laden's life, death and what it means for the future
Corruption reform
The value of voting in america
Should police enforce unjust laws?
We need to talk about utopia
Why stop with just making drugs illegal?
A theory on improving the political election process
10 solutions to most of america's problems
6 steps to change america
The 28th amendment
The lazy man's guide to political reform
How to orchestrate a nonviolent revolution
A vote to criminalize sin is a vote to legalize oppression
My theory on accountability laws
America is a pc. europe is a mac
Ethnocentric fear of globalization is natural (dumb, but natural) and will run its course
What i would change if i were king: part 1, part 2
8 reasons to legalize marijuana you've already heard
Why prostitution should be legal
Why gambling should be legal
Chapter 8: Pop Culture
Why you should boycott pop culture
Why the movie, "Brave" made me facepalm and Hollywood needs an intervention
Why did "Full House" and "Saved by the Bell" exist?
Morality in The Hunger Games
Milestones in the decline of american pop culture
Why do rappers get away with glorifying counter productive behaviour?
10 things gangsta rappers and cowboys have in common
6 reasons not to let your children read/watch twilight
10 signs you're a sheeple
Cost/benefit analysis of internet trolling
Why i hate valentine day
You reveal how stupid you are when you type "lol"
My trainspotting-esque rant about life in america
We need to talk about this pants situation.
13 Things I won't say
Chapter 9: Saving the world
So you want to save the world: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
How to change the world: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5
Don't ask what your country can do for you
Intellectual monastery designs
Solutions for the 47%
Things I wish someone would invent
An open letter to Gen X
3 simple steps that would make a big difference in saving America
Thoughts on saving the world
Why the world sucks and how to save it
ppgrade your culture
Give me an evil genius grant
Why the world won't change much on its own
Change comes from within
Dude, where's my culture?
10 mistakes the future generation won't make
How to create utopia
Rambling business proposal for project cairo
The importance of arguing
Give to charity by donating dividends
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery
How are heroes made?
Join the romantic liberation movement
Real Life Activism Quest Card Deck Template
My entry in the $300 house contest (I lost)
How to bootstrap a commune
How much complaining is too much?
Chapter 10: Self -Help/Inspirational
My advice to the younger generation
It's not cool to be stupid.
Stages of a relationship
Stages of friendship
Signs you're old...but not necessarily mature
Signs you're mature...but not necessarily old
Demotivational inspiration
You might be depressed because the system sucks, not because you suck
What i learned about life from working in IT: part 1, part 2, part 3
the game of life
an essay about you
on you being a winner
the paradox of responsibility
you don't have to go around the world to experience something new
my theory on responsibility
on just saying, "fuck it."
my theory on aggregate happiness and immediate karma
on the inherent limits of professional therapy
you're going to die of cancer
Some relationship advice
The cost/benefit analysis of being fake to impress people
People are important.
Chapter: 11 An Old Man From Jersey Explains....
These are short stories, which are precursors to the comics.
the electoral college
game theory (sort of)
religion
philosophy
life
growing up
right and wrong
republicans and democrats
thinking).
the chicken and the egg
These are comics, which are loosely based on the short stories.
An Old Man From Jersey Explains: Free Will
An Old Man From Jersey Explains: Growing Up
An Old Man From Jersey Explains: Life
An Old Man From Jersey Explains: The Chicken and the Egg
An Old Man From Jersey Explains: Religion
An Old Man From Jersey Explains: Philosophy
And Old Man From Jersey Explains: The Social Contract
This is a film script for 6 of the Old Man From Jersey episodes.
An Old Man From Jersey Explains Life (6 Short Film Scripts)
Chapter 12: Generally Pessimistic Observations on Society
The life of an apple thinner
Predictions for 2013
A brief history of bad parenting
It's the stress, stupid.
on sheltering children
When will life be less stressful?
Predictions on the New Atheist movement
Meta Atheists V.S. Pop Atheists
Problems we accept are part of life but don't have to
adulthood is a lie
on being a kidult
no action is an island
warning: we were raised to be stupid
why you should not live in suburbia
why women like assholes
6 accurate and 4 inaccurate ways to judge people
10 reasons you're surrounded by idiots
10 ways people get dumber as they get older
why you shouldn't support professional sports
sometimes dumbasses are smarter than you
there are two kinds of people in this world: thinkers and bullshitters
on failing to question the importance of your complaint
should we really be happy?
i hate parent ego
on the topic of being the man of the house
we all wear glass masks
on how we subjugate children
love is stupid
Chapter 13: How-To
how to be cool
how to write deep thought memes
how to go down on a girl
10 tips to follow when contacting your computer help desk
how to pick up chicks
how to become an expert at anything
how to have a successful relationship
how to get over a broken heart
how to take advice
how to operate a secular monastery
how to build a floating island
Chapter 14: Writing/Creativity
How to write
Writing The Wise Sloth Way
the wise sloth formula plot template
Formula Plot Storyboard
Notes on writing sitcoms using a formula plot template
4 simple formula plot templates
a parable about how to tell a story
how to write a story
Does substance abuse make you a better writer?
16 tips to overcoming writer's block
10 reasons why writers should blog
predictions on the future of publishing
why using proper grammar is important in life
understanding and communication 101
11 things I learned about blogging from blogging on myspace
Why you shouldn't mock aspiring writers
If you think I'm a closed minded hypocrite who over-generalizes things, read this.
Short Stories
TL;DR Story Time: Sweet As, Bro
TL;DR Story Time: The Paris, TX PTA
TL;DR Story Time: The Ents
TL;DR Story Time: One Night in December
TL;DR Story Time: The People's Pyramid
TL:DR Story Time: The Prisoner's Tale
The 36 Adventures of Captain Buigardo: A choose your own adventure formula plot template
writing prompt
How do you eat an elephant?"
Pros
a biker looks at social conformity
a biker looks at bad weather
a biker looks at the road
a biker explains why we ride
a biker wonders again why he rides
a biker looks at crying
Unfinished Novels:
The Unfinished: A post apocalyptic psychological thriller
Cycle 5
Vulgarocracy: A post-apocalyptic Tale
Art
pictures i drew over the years
the warhol effect
