William Clements:
CLASS OF 1974
Bellaire High SchoolClass of 1974
Bellaire, TX
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyClass of 1978
Cambridge, MA
Liberty High SchoolClass of 1974
Liberty, TX
Sam Houston Elementary SchoolClass of 1968
Liberty, TX
San Jacinto Elementary SchoolClass of 1964
Liberty, TX
William's Story
Life
Email: clemkap at comcast dot net
Born '56 Liberty TX
Presbyterian
2B,SS in little lg, pony lg
Guitar in band "Fresh Grass"
Best friend: Prentice M.
Piano teacher: Mrs. Hatfield
Algebra I: WJ Harlan
'70 with Gay W. composed songs (e.g. Cecil's Asleep) lampooning WJ, other LHS persons
'71 moved to Houston
At Bellaire HS competed in math tournaments
As member Unitarian youth group attended retreats
Keyboard in combo "Chris Brown's Green Grass Jazz Band"
Prom date: Elsa F.
'69-'74 attended shows:
Johnny Winter
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
King Crimson
Pink Floyd
Frank Zappa
At MIT major comp.sci, minor music composition
'74-5 frat PKT
'75-8 dorm Bexley
Composition teacher: John Harbison
Taught LOGO programming to 12 yr olds
4 courses short of bachelor's degree, never finished
'75-'86 attended shows:
Grateful Dead
Miles Davis
FZ
Captain Beefheart
Ramones
Plasmatics
Laurie Anderson
'78 engineer in software development
'82 father passed away
'83 married Deborah Kaplan, bought our current home in Bolton MA
Mother Marfy, brother Rick, sisters Susan and Carol
'91 collaborated with Carol and Laura P. on Carol's piece "Chicken Tawk"; reviews OK (NYT and VV)
Bill
Principal Engineer, Autodesk
Philosopher
Friend of Bill W
Republican
Ivory-tinkler
Bridge duffer (online)
Red Sox fan
Debbie
Fiber artist
Photographer
Democrat
Former Software engineer
Raya born '91
fashion major at Parsons
Russell born '93
music, candlepin bowling
Russell has Fragile X syndrome: retarded, hyper, autistic
'95-'04 attended shows:
Altan
Huun Huur Tu
Phillip Glass
Harbison
Zorn
BSO (Varese, Stravinsky)
Favorite...
Websites: freerepublic nationalreview imdb
Philosophers: Heidegger Wittgenstein Kierkegaard
Founding Father: James Madison
SC Justices: Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia
In order to preserve freedom, limit government's reach, keep strong those institutions based OUTSIDE of government: family, marriage, community, church, faith. Within government: tran...Expand for more
sparency, avoid factions through federalism.
Freedom, markets are the genius of modernity. Pre-moderns in Islamic world are not free. Unprovoked Islamist terrorist strikes shocked the Western world into taking steps to drain the swamp starting with two oppressive regimes.
Free our minds from notion of benevolent omnicompetent state. We continue to be plagued by believers in some form of Utopianism.
Elites, bored, wealthy, work to transform reluctant America, the "social conscience." Better: perform your role in society morally. If you are a journalist, report fairly. If you are a legislator: beware of progressive policies born of honest caring - they can have devastating unintended consequences. If you are a high court justice, practice self-restraint: interpret the law even-handedly and let the chips fall where they may.
Instead of bankrupting itself on entitlements, fed gov should focus on strong defense and prudent regulation of industry. We should pay no more than 8% earnings for that, plus 12% to state and local gov for schools and infrastructure.
Constitutionality of New Deal, Great Society programs could only be justified thru a gross misinterpretation of "promote the general welfare". If framers had intended a nanny nation, Constitution could say "provide the individual welfare". It doesn't.
But, since we have these social programs, and there is no electoral appetite to repeal them, we need to approach the problem wisely, with conservatism. Faith-based programs to help needy people work well!
Public service unions (such as NEA) perpetuate vast uncaring bureaucracies and lousy inner city schools. We need only a few publicly run organizations managed as lean corporations. Failure is productive part of any process: eliminate underperforming departments. No guaranteed jobs.
Stop attacks of ACLU on religion, Boy Scouts. Hoping for sea change in the judiciary away from activism. Elect Republicans, appoint conservative judges.
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