CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
John Maus says the greatest evil is to be a bureaucrat and tell someone, "If I made an exception your case, I'd have to make an except for everybody, so I'm not going to make an exception in your case." Maus says the way not to be evil is to make those exceptions. Plus, here's his idea of genuine radicalism: regardless of your belief system, "Be a sweet dude, act as if everything will be counted, as if there will be a fullness of time."