About Paul
Paul Davis is a sturdy 44-year-old survivor of two cancers, the
Internet boom, and the Reagan years. He comments on the world as he
sees it from his home in the Pacific Northwest.
Raised in New England, Paul is an alumnus of Deep Springs College, where he honed his rhetorical skills in long conversation with the Voice of the Desert. Later, as a student at Brown University, he developed an antipathy for shallow thinkers of all political persuasions, as well as a non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
The lymphoma was vanquished after several years of treatment, leaving Paul free to move West. His California sojourn included stints at the late, great Whole Earth Review (where he became an early user of The Well) and the heyday of Netscape, where he helped start the Internet Revolution .
A misguided expedition to the World's Largest River brought him to Seattle, where, 20 years after his lymphoma, he joined a growing cohort of long-term cancer survivors suffering major side-effects from their earlier treatment. Just months after completing the Royal Victoria Marathon, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.
Paul's most recent plunge into a nightmarish medical morass, a battle with squamous-cell carcinoma, is currently being detailed in the companion blog Paul vs. The Squamous Monster. PvsTSM is ably co-hosted by his loving wife Kimberly, without whom a great many things would be impossible.
Ratiocination, started in August 2004, is dedicated to the American traditions of independent thought, rationalism, and basic human decency, in the face of our culture's headlong plunge into the Long Night of conformity, superstition and rapacious exploitation.
All appearances to the contrary, Paul does like to smile and laugh.
Raised in New England, Paul is an alumnus of Deep Springs College, where he honed his rhetorical skills in long conversation with the Voice of the Desert. Later, as a student at Brown University, he developed an antipathy for shallow thinkers of all political persuasions, as well as a non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
The lymphoma was vanquished after several years of treatment, leaving Paul free to move West. His California sojourn included stints at the late, great Whole Earth Review (where he became an early user of The Well) and the heyday of Netscape, where he helped start the Internet Revolution .
A misguided expedition to the World's Largest River brought him to Seattle, where, 20 years after his lymphoma, he joined a growing cohort of long-term cancer survivors suffering major side-effects from their earlier treatment. Just months after completing the Royal Victoria Marathon, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.
Paul's most recent plunge into a nightmarish medical morass, a battle with squamous-cell carcinoma, is currently being detailed in the companion blog Paul vs. The Squamous Monster. PvsTSM is ably co-hosted by his loving wife Kimberly, without whom a great many things would be impossible.
Ratiocination, started in August 2004, is dedicated to the American traditions of independent thought, rationalism, and basic human decency, in the face of our culture's headlong plunge into the Long Night of conformity, superstition and rapacious exploitation.
All appearances to the contrary, Paul does like to smile and laugh.
