The last paragraph of my letter needs some corrections, as follow herewith:

So why did I bring up this somewhat off-colour story? As I haven't seen either tv serial or movie of "Sex and the City", I just needed to ask:

Is this story of mine perhaps appropriate for a movie/tv serial in the field of 'dick-lit' (assuming of course that there exists such a genre at all) ?

Anyway, I offer it herewith, gratis, to anyone taking up such a project.

Sorry about the goof-up.

-- GSC

Where do ideas come from?

Ideas come from the interaction of minds (yours and others') with the realities confronted. Existing ideas in those realities interact, swirl together, cluster, coagulate, splinter and integrate to form other ideas, some of which are new, others of which are new formulations of existing ideas.

In the conventional 'prose' mode of thought and debate being used here, it is difficult to be more clear about things as complex and slippery as "ideas". However, in what I call 'prose + structural graphics' (p+sg) it is not difficult to render much more clear and readily understandable those thoughts above about the interaction, swirling together, clustering, coagulation, splintering and integration of ideas and how all of this helps form new ideas. P+sg constitutes a minir extension to the 'prose' that you've spent years in learning, which, unfortunately, is not an adequate tool to enable people to understand and effectively use ideas.

The 'structural graphics' enable us to visually display the interactions and inter-relationships we perceive between ideas, and they clearly show how those interactions go to form new ideas - those inter-relationships between ideas are left largely ambiguous in conventional prose.

You need more ideas?

Learn to recognize a few simple realities of the world around you, and you will find you will always have access to all the ideas you will ever need!

Learn to use 'p+sg' effectively and you will find how very simple it is to get more ideas (or to recognise the huge numbers of ideas that are in fact always swirling around in our minds and in the world around us all the time!

In other postings, I've discussed how more information (along with some useful software to help handle thesre 'interactions of ideas') can be made freely available about how to learn about and use 'p+sg'.

-- GSC

The Republican attacks on Obama are due to get very nasty indeed. The Democrats should be prepared.

Some of the important issues that Obama should emphasize:

1. GW Bush is a War Criminal!!;

2. GW Bush (and his War Criminal Gang) lied to US citizens (to get their approval for his phony wars; lied to Congress (to get the funding for his phony wars); has spent over $ 5 billion is his phony wars - these wars will in due course cost US citizens well over $ 3 trillion(!); has enabled Halliburton and others to loot the US treasury; has brought the US to its nadir in the world, economically and in the opinion of the world; has utterly shamed the US in the eyes of the world; has made us a war criminal nation... (etc, etc, etc - there are plenty more charges that should be laid against GW Bush - he should, in fact, be impeached if that is possible at all);

3. GW Bush, War Criminal, supports John McCain; is this the kind of President the US needs?

4. John McCain has sought and received the support of GW Bush, War Criminal.

Of course, I am an outsider, not eligible to vote in the US and obviously I would not have the grip on the details that US citizens would have. But this distance from the heartland also probably enables me to see some things more clearly than those who are in the thick of things there can.

--GSC