Unarchy,

TEMPORARY NOTE, DEC 2008: Has Indiana's law whereby one cannot sue his employer been tested for constitutionality? If you are a lawyer who would throw yourself into taking that one up to the Supreme Court, please contact me. I know how weird this sounds in view of the comments just below, but one must work within the system currently in place.

IF YOU NEVER LOOK PAST THIS HOME PAGE, PLEASE READ AND THINK ON THIS:

Proposal: Replace our current justice system, which is based on dishonesty and legalistic word games, with a new system based on common sense and conscience. For the time being, this new system is called unarchy.

There are no written laws, just the understanding that you shouldn't mistreat others; or, put another way, don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to yourself.

Juries would be selected completely randomly. Juries would be big enough to ensure that they accurately represent the views of society at large. There would be no judges or lawyers. Accuser and accused would present their own cases. No evidence would be inadmissable. Jurors may ask questions.

Simple majority vote determines guilt. Simple majority vote sets the punishment.

Thanks.

Donald Sauter.

What's new(est):

• Grand Opera meets Dueling Banjos meets Black History - Scraps From the Operas arranged for two guitars by a remarkable, 19th century black American, Justin Holland. Me on Guitar Secondo. (Listen to the free sound clips; don't worry about the buck to download the whole album.)
• Movie star photos, with autographs! Even if you don't know many of these 75 stars from the 1940s and 1950s, they'll take you back, I guarantee it.
• Beating Darwinism to death - a couple of party-pooping comments from me on Darwin's 200th birthday.
• World record Scrabble lagoon! What the heck is that? All it takes is a click!
• The evolution of Mother Goose - an interesting (I hope) look at how Mother Goose rhymes, ca. 1998, differ from the "classic" versions. More hugs, less whippings . . .
• Scrabble for Word Lovers (Scrabble II) - making the case for vocabulary-based Scrabble. Been around forever (not that Google has noticed...) but I've revamped it completely.
• Championship Scrabble vs. "Scrabble II". Compare Championship Scrabble games with games played according to the proposals in my main Scrabble page. This will change the way you play Scrabble forever - unless you really prefer playing funny little words for piddly points.
• Columbia Scrabble Club vs. Dover Scrabble Club - another comparison of tournament-style Scrabble with vocabulary-based Scrabble II.
• Goo Goo Scrabble - less thinking, more points! Or play Super Goo Goo Scrabble for even bigger scores! (Satire? Serious? One can not be sure!)
• Garage soccer - it doesn't take much to get up a good game of soccer.
• New words in the English language - a nice, clear look at what's been added in the last ten years or so. See my favorite new word!
• "Science describes; science does not explain" - needs to be said now and then. The discussion uses "The God Delusion", by Richard Dawkins, and gravity as jumping off points.
• In Memory of Jane L. Sauter. A mom like none other, in addition to being America's Most Beloved Woman.
• In Memory of Harry Vernon - a friend who went out in grand style. (He fell off Mt. Taranaki in New Zealand on his 80th birthday.) Harry was a character. This is actually an older page, but I just discovered the link has been missing from this index for a few years.
• The following 4 pages, while not going exactly hand in hand, are somewhat intertwined. What I'm trying to say is, read 'em all. (Pretty please?)
  • Units of Measure - a NEW and SIMPLE system. We'll never need another!
  • Scientific Notation - a new, streamlined look and sound! We need this to go with the above. (We need it anyhow.)
  • A Universal Second Language - what's the hold-up??? Let's go! I didn't say I invented the idea; just getting in some thoughts and a plug.
  • Base 8 - the best number system. What can I say? 10 stinks.
• Main index sections: justice guitar tablature beatles science/math games sports words music etc.

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• Forward - No need to read this, but it's short. That's the bargain, see?
• Justice, democracy, government, education, and... unarchy!
  • Unarchy - a simple system of justice based on common sense and conscience.
  • You And Me For President, 2012. No matter the year, always trying to plug pure democracy. It's the way to go.
    • The following 3 pages are supplied for completeness only. All of the highlights are included in the page above.
    • 2004 Presidential election wrap-up
    • 2000 Presidential election wrap-up
    • 1996 Presidential election wrap-up
  • Maryland's MSPAP test. The idiotic test is gone, at least as we knew it, but I leave the page up as a monument to the idiots still in charge of Maryland's education system.
  • Proposal for improving the over-all performance of an elementary school - open letter to elementary school principals and school system superintendents. A simple idea, but it takes a person with special talents.
  • "Adequately" funded education in Maryland , the queen of Mommy states. Could have called this one, "Cigarettes for Education!"
  • Leadership change in Prince George's County schools - what might have been. Fixing education would be a cinch (but I suspect people actually prefer wringing their hands forever.)
  • Kumon - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Parents, if you're thinking of supplemental education for your child, you might be interested in this.
  • Kumon faq (frequently asked questions) - emails I received in response to the above page, and my honest responses.
  • Main index sections: justice guitar tablature beatles science/math games sports words music etc.
• Guitar - so-called "classical", it's the real thing.
  • Guitar fingerings - all my thoughts on the notation of guitar fingering, the notation of guitar harmonics, etc.
  • Guitar tablature - simple and sensible! I also propose a standardized tablature notation.
  • The quasi-Baroque guitar - how to rig up double strings on that old banger in your closet. It's a cinch!
  • Alternate tunings - up to G(!) for Bach's violin music; open tunings; Russian guitar.
  • String calculation - the sensible way: mass per unit length (not gauge).
  • Guitar ramble - a hodge-podge of thoughts.
  • Guitar society thoughts - let's have a guitar party!
  • The Music Division of the Library of Congress - some very handy tips for using it, using guitar examples.
  • Guitar music from the Library of Congress - a bunch of neat stuff I have copied (like 3000 pages.)
  • Computers and arranging for guitar - they should be smart enough for that.
  • GACK - Is somebody sick? No, a Guitar Accessory Carrying Kase!
  • Dionisio Aguado - complete works for the guitar. A look at the Chanterelle edition, with some personal thoughts plus a very useful index.
  • Right hand exercise/word search - huh???
  • The guitar in the 1894 Sears catalog - time-traveling fun. This is the first Sears catalog in which the guitar appeared.
  • The guitar in the Fall 1896-97 Sears catalog. And here's round 2. Still only gut-strung guitars.
  • Familiar guitar quotations. (That shouldn't take long.)
  • Master classes - some worthwhile tips picked up there.
  • Our Director March - the case for "low-brow" music.
  • "Classical guitar" in the Baltimore Sun - all the references from 1990-1998. I was curious how it shows up in a typical newspaper, and how often.
  • Guitar and piano music from the Library of Congress - quite an impressive list. Also notes the errors found in the music.
  • Guitar and piano music available for a "tip". Shows sample guitar extracts for each LoC piece, plus links to all the guitar and piano pieces on the Royal Copenhagen Library (REX) site.
  • Linking to the guitar music in the Royal Copenhagen library - a project for fans of 19th C. guitar music.
  • "Scraps from the Operas" by Justin Holland. Black American guitarist Justin Holland was the most important guitarist of his generation, talkin' 1850s-1860s. Here are recordings of the "Faust Waltz" and the "Faust March", arranged for two guitars by Justin Holland.
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• Guitar tablature - looks good, not trashy!
  • Ascii tablature - general comments which apply to all of the guitar tablature in the pages below.
  • Alonso Mudarra - everything for solo vihuela and 4-course guitar from Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela (1546).
  • Henry Francois de Gallot. Just one work for baroque guitar, but a monumental one! A "how to" for playing baroque guitar music on the modern guitar.
  • Francisco Guerau - the complete Poema Harmonico (1694) for baroque guitar. Works well on the modern guitar.
  • Gaspar Sanz - pieces from his ever-popular Instruccion de Musica sobre la Guitarre Espan^ola, dating from 1674. Includes the complete Libro 2.
  • Francois Campion - all the pieces in alternate tunings from Nouvelles Decouvertes sur la Guitarre (1705). For baroque guitar but simply delightful on the modern guitar. (Betcha you couldn't play them from music!)
  • Antoine Carre - everything in his Livre de Pieces de Guitarre de Musique (1690?) for baroque guitar. Includes many solos; plus a duet; plus a big suite for 2 guitars and melody and bass instrument, which I've set up for playing on 3 guitars.
  • Francesco da Milano. Not a complete works job - just 3 pieces - but you might as well have them as not. Francesco was tops in the lute field before 1543.
  • Mozart waltzes - over 200 of them; never before heard or played! Generated from his Musikalisches Wuerfelspiel. Transcribed for guitar and presented in tablature.
    • Mozart waltzes - a 1000 more!
  • The Carnival of Venice - a virtuoso, 19th C. guitar work by Zani de Ferranti. You need this in tablature because the guitar is tuned to an E major chord.
  • The Plow That Broke The Plains, by Virgil Thomson. If you get the chance to play the guitar part in this orchestral work, this tablature might help.
  • Etude in e minor (The Great). Warning - after you've played this, there's nothing left.
  • Minuetto from Falstaff - Amelie Luigi's very nice transcription (1895) of a very nice minuetto in Verdi's opera, Falstaff.
  • The Galop of the Goblins - a fun piece by American guitarist Walter Faye Lewis, plus everything you need to know about the (spooky) Neapolitan sixth chord.
  • Our Director March - the case for "low-brow" music. Also included in this section so you don't miss the tab.
  • "Toccata Arpeggiata" by J. H. Kapsberger. A nice piece made easier by an unusual tuning. Presented in tablature.
  • "Mad Dog" - that's what they call this lute piece from the Second Matthew Holmes Lute Book.
  • "April Showers" - a 19th C. all-American guitar duo in an unusual tuning.
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• Beatles - some pop group.
  • Beatle Significa - a gearfab question and answer game. Some dare call it trivia.
  • Beatle inspirations? - a few little musical borrowings by the Beatles and from the Beatles. Maybe.
  • The Beatles in Yobyalp - Some kids' magazine from the '60s or something?
  • The Beatles in Boys' Life magazine - all the mentions from 1964 through 1969. Plus a few good jokes from Think & Grin thrown in for free.
  • The Beatles in teen magazines: Hit Parader, Teen Scoop, Teen Screen, Teen Life, Teen World, Fifteen, 16 Magazine, and Flip. From about mid-1968 through early 1969. Good for Beatle bits; great for time traveling.
  • The Beatles in National Geographic magazine. That shouldn't take long.
  • The Beatles in American newspaper clippings - the actual town is called Philadelphia. Set your time machine to 1964.
  • Beatle book reports - starting with Nicholas Schaffner's Beatles Forever classic.
  • One John Lennon, with sound bites. A variety of research and discussion topics - mostly fun, not academic - arising from my collection of Beatle-related talk recorded from various radio series over the decades.
  • The ultimate Beatles database - something like a Beatles Wikipedia, but bigger and better!
  • The Beatles VI Cover - Straight Dope Cecil answers the world's toughest Beatle question!!! (What do you call them things that keep rain off your head?)
  • Beatles vs. Elvis - just a fun word game contest devised by Joe Pope in 1987. Play along, laugh at the entries, or simply have yourself a glimpse of Beatle fandom from that era. Also meant to be a tribute to Joe, himself.
  • Muzak and the Beatles - standing up for beautiful music. I say let it rip, not RIP. And where will the Beatles be without it?
  • Paul McCartney's close call - how the Beatles almost lost a good bass player in the Canary Islands in 1963.
  • The Yellow Submarine movie, and the brains behind it. Did the Beatles contribute more to the movie than we think?
  • John, Paul, George, Ringo... & Bert. A review of the play by Willy Russell. The first four guys you know; but who's the last chappy???
  • Beatles on Scottish tv in Glasgow - a little story.
  • Ringo's Beaucoups Of Blues album - a few reminiscences from country music artist Sorrells Pickard.
  • Ringo's hair at the British Embassy - an international incident. Trying to get to the bottom of what really happened the night after the Beatles' first concert in America, Feb 11 1964.
  • Ringo sings the Lennon-McCartney songbook - for Ringo fans everywhere. (That means you.)
  • Best-yet Hard Day's Night chord - give it a twang.
  • The Beatles and Mother Goose. Actually, that's just one section you can find in my page of Mother Goose favorites.
  • Unsolved mysteries
  • Beatles bonus tracks
  • Free Beatles books! (Offer expired!)
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• Science and math:
  • The Human Race Is Special - proof positive.
  • The Fermi Paradox - where are the aliens?
  • UFOs I have seen - 'strewth.
  • The Big Bang - explosion or expansion? C'mon, which is it? (I suspect tired light.)
  • Evolution FAQ - frequently asked question.
  • Evolution articles, essays and writings, with my rebuttals. A follow-up to my Evolution FAQ.
  • Doubting Saint Chuck - selected commentary on Intelligent Design in the wake of the Dover school board case, Oct 2005. My pick from among thousands and thousands of articles.
  • "Science describes; science does not explain" - needs to be said now and then. The discussion uses "The God Delusion", by Richard Dawkins, and gravity as jumping off points.
  • Science in the media - does everybody just nod their heads?
  • Leap Day - what are your chances of being born on it? (That is, if you haven't already been born yet.) Including a mild rant on clumsy mathematical thinking.
  • Units of Measure - a NEW and SIMPLE system. We'll never need another!
  • Scientific Notation - a new, streamlined look and sound! We need this to go with the above. (We need it anyhow.)
  • Base 8 - the best number system. What can I say? 10 stinks.
  • Dreams - a baffling paradox. Just who's writing the script?
  • My very favorite brain teasers - all 2 of 'em.
    • The wine in the water problem.
    • Rolling one quarter around another.
  • Brain teasers - a few more math puzzles from an old book called "Fun With Puzzles".
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• Games:
  • Scrabble for Word Lovers, aka "Scrabble II" - making the case for vocabulary-based Scrabble. Scrabble as nature intended! Real dictionary; no bum words; incentives for long words. Scrabble II finally brings the game to perfection.
  • Dover Scrabble Club rules. (It sure does!) Same ideas as in my main page for Scrabble II, but tightened up into an actual set of rules, suitable for implementation in your own play.
  • Championship Scrabble vs. "Scrabble II". Compare Championship Scrabble games with games played according to the proposals in my main Scrabble page. This will change the way you play Scrabble forever - unless you really prefer playing funny little words for fewer points.
  • Columbia Scrabble Club vs. Dover - a study similar to the one above, but with regular earthlings as guinea pigs.
  • Completed Scrabble II boards produced in the Dover Scrabble Club. Don't drool on your computer.
    • Scrabble II Boards - Season 1
    • Scrabble II Boards - Season 2
    • Scrabble II Boards - Season 3
    • Scrabble II Boards - Season 3
  • The Q in Scrabble and how to use it - two distinct modes of thought.
  • Goo Goo Scrabble - less thinking, more points! Or play Super Goo Goo Scrabble for even bigger scores!
  • Scrabble variants - a few more thoughts on Scrabble, and a few interesting variants like 4-letter Minimum, Bingo Bop, and Phone Scrabble.
  • Who played SHODS??? - a Scrabble whodunit. You must reconstruct a game from the finished board and a score sheet. Trickier than you think . . .
  • Scrabble rules through the decades - an interesting look at the evolution of the Scrabble box top rules over the years. Also, a thumbnail history of Scrabble.
  • World record Scrabble lagoon! What the heck is that? Sort of like a donut hole . . .
  • Monopoly - some thoughts on the classic game, with a few "house rule" suggestions.
  • Boggle - quite a nifty little word game. Some playing suggestions.
  • Family Feud, the home version - a great party game!
  • Password, the home version - a lost cause? NO! Here are the rule fixes.
  • Board game rules for Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Taboo, etc. - fix 'em up to keep everybody happy and involved.
  • A handy won-lost performance statistic for multi-player games and sports. That's a mouthful of link text, but who would be searching on "average place statistic (aps)"?
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• Sports:
  • Baseball rules - a few minor fixes.
  • Softball - good games with any number of players.
  • Football rules - a tiny change that would crank up the excitement!
  • Basketball - leveling the field for talented players of all heights.
  • Croquet rules - perhaps not exactly "official", but guaranteed to give a good game.
  • Roofball - a new sport. Get started now; don't be left in the rain at the 2076 Olympics.
  • Garage soccer - it doesn't take much to get up a good game of soccer.
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• Words and books and such:
  • New words in the English language - a nice, clear look at what's been added in the last ten years or so, that is, from around 1995 to around 2005.
  • A 1000 words I needed to look up. Compare your word power with a common bloke.
  • A Universal Second Language - what's the hold-up??? Let's go! I didn't say I invented the idea; just getting in some thoughts and a plug.
  • Quotes - original and memorable quotes that I have heard.
  • Personalized license plates that won my approval - a pretty sorry lot, actually.
  • $100 words. What for? Who knows? They're neat.
  • Word search for guitarists. Same page as in the guitar section above. A passel o' words made from our right hand finger designations: p (thumb), i (index), m (middle) and a (ring).
  • A Beatle word game. Same page as in the Beatles section above. Wanna scramble some Beatle album titles?
  • Confusing words - for a kid (me).
  • "Karl Katz" - a hard-to-find Grimm's fairy tale. Looks like the same story as "Rip Van Winkle" to me.
  • Mother Goose favorites - plus a fun look at some different versions. Also, a HUGE index of 1st lines.
  • The evolution of Mother Goose - an interesting look at how Mother Goose rhymes, ca. 1998, differ from the "classic" versions.
  • Gender in the language - and touching on titles, first names and surnames.
  • Little book reports - not so much "reviews" as an excuse to babble.
  • Caesar Rodney's ride for independence - the Hollywood version, plus its debunking.
  • Main index sections: justice guitar tablature beatles science/math games sports words music etc.
• Music:
  • Grand Opera meets Dueling Banjos meets Black History - Scraps From the Operas arranged for two guitars by a remarkable, 19th century black American, Justin Holland. Me on Guitar Secondo. (Listen to the free sound clips; don't worry about the buck to download the whole album.)
  • Simplified piano notation - a simple proposal that makes playing piano simpler than typing.
  • Music book reports - my thoughts on a wide variety of music-related books.
  • Muzak and the Beatles - standing up for beautiful music. I say let it rip, not RIP. Same page as in my Beatles section, but the first half is not Beatle-specific.
  • The Little Book Of Music Anecdotes - my report on a nice little book from 1948. It's separate because I've worked up an index for it.
  • Playboy goes to the opera! All the opera mentions in the magazine's first 10 years, 1954-1964.
  • My opera records. This catalog could conceivably answer an opera question or two. Also, I've created a Master Index to my opera reference book collection, an idea that others might find useful.
  • Making parts from a score - get your scissors ready. Down with publishers who give us impossible page turns! (Don't worry, the scissors aren't for him.)
  • The Music Division of the Library of Congress - some very handy tips for using it. Come one, come all. (Same page as in the Guitar section.)
  • Vinyl records - how to fix skips.
  • How to watch a parade. Take a musical, urban hike!
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• Food:
  • Mixed vegetables - a plan for partaking thereof. I didn't used to be a fan either - then it occurred to me...
  • Cereal construct - greater than the sum of its parts.
  • Ice water - how to make it.
  • Gourmet peanut butter - mix it up yourself!
  • Brownies - (a secret ingredient!)
  • Split pea chowder - it's all right, I guess.
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• Open letters to:
  • Northerners - got somethin' ta say about snow in D.C.?
  • U.S. Postal Service - a failure to communicate.
  • Prince George's County, Maryland, government - exorbitant and unfair trash pickup charge is an abuse of power.
  • PG County residents, this time. It's about trash, again. Please clean up your act. I also unload my thoughts on punishment for shoplifting.
  • Elementary school principals and school system superintendents - a proposal for improving the over-all performance of an elementary school. The idea is simple, but it takes a person with special talents.
  • The computer industry: My two computer wishes - a true archival system for computer files; and a more basic and simple internet access. I think these ideas could make somebody a lot of money.
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• This and that in my life:
  • In Memory of Jane L. Sauter. A mom like none other, in addition to being America's Most Beloved Woman. The page may also expose something of myself.
  • In memory of Harry Vernon - a friend who went out in grand style. (He fell off Mt. Taranaki in New Zealand on his 80th birthday.) Even if you don't know Harry, he was quite a character, believe you me.
  • Meet Your Neighbor - me. (Sorry for the disappointment.) This was a little feature in the Delaware State News.
  • The most this and that in my life. Not necessarily big deals, mind you.
  • My Glob - not exactly a blog. Whatever I feel like saying without whipping up a separate web page.
  • A Profile in Courage - it took a big person...
  • Antarctica - unclaimed land now claimed. Wrapping up a loose end...
  • Oprah Winfrey: historic recording on Baltimore radio. In a 1980 radio spot, Oprah plugs an appearance by cosmetics lady Mary Kay Ash on "People Are Talking", a Baltimore tv talk show. (I'm in there, too.)
  • Movie star photos, with autographs! Even if you don't know many of these 75 stars from the 1940s and 1950s, they'll take you back, I guarantee it.
  • My guestbook - the first 3 years! I've closed and archived this first one. Loads of topics, some funny comments - "in-ner-resting reading"!
  • Mary Theresa Lane - a couple of works from my archives.
  • My current guestbook - since 2001. Growing very slowly cuz guestbooks are passe, but large enough now to stand on its own two feet. The next comment could be yours!
  • E-mail highlights. Provided for miscellaneous web searches; not for curling up with: email001 email002 email003 email004 email005 email006 email007 email008 email009 email010 email011 email012 email013 email014 email025 email026 email027 email028 email058a email058b email059a email059b email060a email060b email060c email061a email061b .
  • Trolling for old friends - clicking here is not the point.
  • Resume - I'm ok, but I'd rather be boosting the performance of a whole elementary school.
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