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Gender	Male
Occupation	Team Leader
Location	somewhere in the Midwest, United States
Links	Audio Clip
Introduction	"We must be civil to books. It is worth reading 400-500 pages to find a few golden sentences that can change our lives." George Sheehan
Interests	Playing guitar, folk festivals, meeting new friends, reading, taking walks with my wife, snow skiing, writing fiction, Barack Obama, Milwaukee Brewers, St Louis Cardinals, Minnesota Twins, Richard Dawkins, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers, Carl Sagan, helping the disabled, Christopher Reeve, Sam Harris, Mitch Albom, biking, major league baseball, tennis, the op-ed page, Carl Rogers, Seinfeld, peace, nature, smart people, Robert Frost, humor, Robin Williams, Rich Little, George Carlin, Robert Klein, Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller, Jim Carey, Anthony Hopkins, Will Smith, Marty Feldman, Mel Brooks, Dr. House, literature, existentialism, Star Trek, Pablo Picasso, Cubism, Monet, Garrison Keillor, Renoir, Andrew Wyeth, David Bowie, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Steve Martin, Emily Dickinson, EE Cummings, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Wayne Dyer, Temple Grandin, Johnny Depp, Dan Rather, Tim Russert, Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer, John Bartlett, Jimmy Carter, Bart Starr, Anne Frank, Anderson Cooper, Larry King, Michael Douglass, Don Rickles, Bob Newhart, Jason Alexander, Woody Allen, John Stewart, John Cleese, finding common interests, rainbows, writing on my laptop with a hot cup of coffee nearby, performing live, studio recording, viewing thoughtful and compassionate blogs, Brett Farve, Jon McGlocklin, Fritz Perls, Rollo May, laughing, sailing, waterparks, Password, Millionaire, Jeff Foxworthy, Ripon College, Steve Kilbey, heavenly days, rain falling softly on the sidewalk, the universe, Albert Einstein, Starbucks Coffee, Barnes and Noble, Wisconsin Public Radio, National Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, my new deck, listening to my mp3 player, hugging and kissing my wife, Americans United, Planned Parenthood, ACLU, Greenpeace, giving to others, living in peace, treating people like they like to be treated, non-violence and passivism, Mazatlan
Favorite Movies	Rainman, Iris, The Graduate, Gandhi, A River Runs Through It, JFK, Rattle and Hum, Supersize Me, Nixon, The Bucket List, Passage to India, Its a Wonderful Life, Vanilla Sky, Malcom X, World According to Garp, Good Morning Vietnam, Sicko, The Four Horsemen, The Sting, Sixth Sense, The Shining, Pay It Forward, Star Wars, The Last Temptation of Christ, Dead Poets Society, Life is Beautiful, Thelma and Louise, Moulin Rouge, Scent of a Woman, Loves Comes Softly, Simple Twist of Fate, Annie Hall, Airplane, James Bond, A Christmas Carol, Brokeback Mountain, Tender Mercies, Young Frankenstein, Passage to India, Blazing Saddles, Mr. Brooks, Death of a Salesman, Broadcast News, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Scout, Defending Your Life, National Treasure, Finding Nemo, Mother, Lost in America, Beyond the Sea, The Shipping News, The Muse, American Beauty, The Life of David Gale, Henry and June, Glengarry Glen Ross, Good Will Hunting, Awakening, Shawshank Redemption, Bridges of Madison County, The Pianist, Raging Bull, Hotel Rwanda, The Elephant Man, The Odd Couple, Signs, Fargo, The Healer, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, Network, Manhattan, Ground Hog Day, Bonnie and Clyde, Titanic, The Dead Zone, The Right Stuff, Jurasic Park, Being John Malkowvich, P.S. I Love You
Favorite Music	Richard Shindell, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Patty Griffin, Lyle Lovett, John Denver, James Taylor, Storyhill, The Oaks, Bruce Cockburn, Nick Drake, Jack Johnson, Death Cab for Cutie, New Order, Depression Glass, JS Bach, Harry Connick Junior, Bill Staines, Jeffrey Foucault, Josh Calhoun, Josh Groban, Smothers Brothers, Livingston Taylor, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Redbird, The Smiths, Supertramp, Kansas, Journey, The Mavericks, Wilco, Yanni, The Flaming Lips, Dar Williams, Talking Heads, Russell Howard, Tom Paxton, The Eagles, John Lennon, Guided by Voices, Michael Tollifson, Enya, Norah Jones, Coldplay, Tracy Chapma, Yanni, George Winston, Mozart, Haydn, Correlli, hymns, Johnny Nash, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Natalie Merchant, Susan Werner, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, BB King, Bob Dylan, Melissa Etheridge, CSNY, Michael Stipe, Chet Atkins, Robert Palmer, Les Paul, Art Garfunkel, Willie Nelson, Al Green, Carlos Santana, Michael W. Smith, Paul Colman, Dolphins in Disguise, Aerial Bomb, We Are Beatrice, Nirvana, David Bowie, The Cure, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Herb Alpert, Al Jarreau, Steve Goodman, Woody Guthrie, Loreena McKennitt, The Church, Steve Kilbey, The National, The Clientelle, Krista Detor, Nathan Gaunt, Shane N Shane, Janice Esch, Emily White, Martha Berner, Suzanne Vega, Cedarwell, Chris Smither, Lori McKenna, Tracy Grammer, Al Stewart, Steve Earle, Joan Baez, Eliza Gilkyson, Brianna Lane, Julie Moffitt, Tim Grimm, Mark Croft, Townes Van Zandt, Mark Erelli, Glen Campbell, Craig Allan, Mac McAnnally, Ryan Long, Pierce Pettis, Caroline Herring, Mark Geary, Lisa Loeb, Laura Kemp, Emily Kurn, Peter Mayer, Jud Caswell, Ron Fetner, Terrence Martin, Bread and Roses, Stephen Hunter, Yusuf Islam, Matt Costa, Celexico, Tally Hall, The 88, Ingrid Michaelson
Favorite Books	Rabbit Run, The God Delusion, Letter to a Christian Nation, Contact, Cosmos, On Writing, Man Without a Country, Tuesdays with Morrie, Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Prophet, Power of Myth, World of Ideas, Bird by Bird, In the Beauty of the Lillies, All Men Are Brothers, God is Not Great, The Scarlet Letter, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, Manifest Your Destiny, A Way of Being, Freedom to Learn, On Becoming a Person, Future Shock, Snow Falling on Cedars, Sophie's Choice, Leo Buscaglia, Wayne Dyer, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Man's Search for Meaning, Charles Darwin, 1984, Brave New World, A&P, Skipping Christmas, The Firm, Personal Best, On Running, Ayn Rand, Bob Woodward, Diary of Anne Frank, Mario Cuomo, Tim Russert, Shakespeare, Cider House Rules, Hotel New Hampshire, John Schell, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, John Irving, The Old Man and the Sea, Moby Dick, The Color Purple, Charlotte's Web, On the Road, A Separate Peace, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, The Audacity of Hope, quotation books, Saul Bellow, Mario Cuomo, Leadership, Margaret Mead, Extraordinary People, Sydney Sheldon, Chris Matthews, Allen Bloom, Mike Wallace, Helen Thomas, Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Edward R. Morrow, Charles Kuralt, Harry Reasoner, Charlie Rose, Jimmy Carter, Jim Wright, Allen Bloom, American Pastoral, The Human Stain, Bob Nelson, The Widows of Eastwick

When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?

The question makes no sense. This is extremely silly, don't you think???