"What's New" Archive: 2012
27 December 2012 -- With the ACC regular season nearly upon us, added entry identifying the source and detailing the consequences of the Curse of Herb Sendek to Facebook Notes section in Publications:
 So NC State has a new Men's Basketball coach...
Edited Site Map to reflect addition to Facebook Notes section of Publications.
26 December 2012 -- Added Facebook Notes section to Publications and moved two pages from Addendum section to Facebook Notes section:
On Military Support of Republicans; or, Why I Am a Republican . . . and an Anti-Democrat
On RUSH's album 2112, with emphasis on the rock suite "2112"
Edited Site Map and other pages to reflect addition of Facebook Notes section and related changes.
24 December 2012 -- In honor of the looming Fiscal Cliff, added entry featuring an earlier example of Democrat duplicity on taxes and the national debt to Addendum section in Publications:
On Military Support of Republicans; or, Why I Am a Republican . . . and an Anti-Democrat
Edited Site Map to reflect addition to Addendum section of Publications.
21 December 2012 -- In recognition of "International RUSH Day" (21.12.12 or 12.21.12 . . . get it...), added entry to Addendum section in Publications:
On RUSH's album 2112, with emphasis on the rock suite "2112"
Edited Site Map to reflect addition to Addendum section of Publications.
18 December 2012 -- Edited and updated "'Gun control' advocates" entry in Irritations.
15 December 2012 -- Edited and moved Guestbook entries to complete Guestbook Archive: Volume 31; edited Guestbook Central and Guestbook Archive: Volume 30 to reflect addition to Archives. Edited Site Map and other pages as needed to implement new page.
13 December 2012 -- Added three entries to Guestbook: 5Dec12, 27Nov12 (from an Indian Hindu who suggests that I'm a Karma Yogi, with my response), 25Nov12 (with my response).
18 November 2012 -- Added two entries to Guestbook: 18Nov12, 16Nov12.
15 November 2012 -- Added five entries to Guestbook: 14Nov12b, 14Nov12a, 11Nov12b, 11Nov12a, 5Nov12.
14 November 2012 -- Edited selected pages in Guestbook Archives.
4 November 2012 -- Added five entries to Guestbook: 31Oct12b, 31Oct12a, 30Oct12b, 30Oct12a, 27Oct12.
31 October 2012 -- Acting in the spirit of Samhain, the Gaelic festival of the dead, edited Transcript of official statement of 7 August 1987 to acknowledge Timothy Alton Herfendal (later known as Timothy Dean Morris), RIP.
19 October 2012 -- Edited my addendum of my original response to william cooper's Guestbook entry of 30 October 1999 to provide an additional piece of evidence of my obsessive-compulsive voting behavior. Edited Government Connections: Congress Members' Sites: House.
17 October 2012 -- Added entries to Site Index: Christomegalomania, Internet troll, and Neil C. Reinhardt.
16 October 2012 -- Added entry to Guestbook: 6Aug12 (from an e-mail sent by an Internet troll who answered a charge that wasn't made in my response to his Guestbook entry of 12 May 2008, with my response).
15 October 2012 -- Added two entries to Guestbook: 13Oct12, 10Oct12.
28 September 2012 -- On the 27th anniversary of my enlistment, perhaps finally having found the right words to more fully and more honestly capture my emotional response to swearing the Oath of Enlistment in the Armed Forces of the United States on 28 September 1985, edited Being All I Could Be; or, Descent into Madness in Autobiography by adding three sentences to the very end of the conclusion.
24 September 2012 -- Added ten entries to Guestbook: 23Sep12, 18Sep12, 15Sep12, 9Sep12, 26Aug12, 18Aug12, 11Aug12, 10Aug12b, 10Aug12a, 25Jul12.
21 September 2012 -- Amended my original response to Sir Hoagy's Guestbook entry of 11 October 1998 to clarify my personal ethical code's source and nature, namely my atheism and my materialism, with my compliments to Christianity and a wandering into the Hebrew Scriptures.
22 August 2012 -- Edited "COPPA Notice" on Homepage, Contact Page, Guestbook Central, and Guestbook Form.
15 August 2012 -- Amended my original response to william cooper's Guestbook entry of 30 October 1999 to provide further evidence of my obsessive-compulsive voting behavior.
14 August 2012 -- Added links for atheism-related Guestbook entries to Site Index: A: Atheism and edited relevant Guestbook pages as needed to accommodate indexing.
13 July 2012 -- Added entries to Site Index: Bush Derangement Syndrome and John Forbes Kerry.
6 July 2012 -- Added entries to Site Index: Apollo conspiracy theory, "Clinton hater", and "Moon Landing Hoax".
5 July 2012 -- Added three entries to Guestbook: 2Jul12, 30Jun12, 23Jun12 (from an e-mail sent by a benighted Milton critic who threw back a snippet of the poet's invocation of the muse which I had used in my critical essay, A Devil of a Problem: Satan as Hero in Paradise Lost, with my response in which I humbly illumine some of the subtleties of a literary genius at work). Edited and moved Guestbook entries to complete Guestbook Archive: Volume 30; edited Guestbook Central and Guestbook Archive: Volume 29 to reflect addition to Archives. Edited Site Map and other pages as needed to implement new page.
1 July 2012 -- Indexed Approaching Joe Wenderoth�s "Letters to Wendy�s" and added entries to Site Index:
Atheism, Beat generation, Blasphemy, Desecration, Allen Ginsberg, Homoeroticism, Homosexuality, Jesus Christ,
Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Postmodernism, Sacrilege, and Joe Wenderoth.
30 June 2012 -- Indexed Campus Speech Codes: Civility or Tyranny? and added entries to Site Index:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Sheldon Hackney, Nat Hentoff, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Eden Jacobowitz,
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., "Sensitivity training", University of Michigan,
University of Pennsylvania, "Water buffalo", C. Vann Woodward, Yale University, and Yiddish.
29 June 2012 -- Edited Site Index and added entries for Athena, Aurora, Haiku, Heterodoxos, Thomas Jefferson, Modernism, Odysseus, Orion, Psalm 14, Jonathan Swift, Tanka, Telemachus, Alfred Tennyson, and Ulysses.
28 June 2012 -- Added links for selected entries in Site Index: George Herbert Walker Bush, George Walker Bush, and William Jefferson Clinton.
27 June 2012 -- Added entries to Site Index: William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost,
George Herbert, Margery Kempe, John Milton, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Shakespeare, Wallace Stevens,
Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Whicker, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and Jeanette Winterson.
21 June 2012 -- Added four entries to Guestbook: 20Jun12b, 20Jun12a, 19Jun12 (from a guest expressing great praise and gratitude for the site, with my response), 16Jun12b.
16 June 2012 -- Added entry to Guestbook: 16Jun12 (from a guest expressing dismay with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's recognition of June as "Gay Pride Month" in the U.S. military, with my response).
15 June 2012 -- Added links for selected entries in Site Index: Algore, Beelzebubba, Bigotry, Catholicism,
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, National Coming Out Day, Barack Hussein Obama,
"Politics of Personal Destruction", and Slick Willie.
14 June 2012 -- Added Contents section on pages in Site Index: N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z.
13 June 2012 -- Added Contents section on pages in Site Index: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, and M.
11 June 2012 -- Added five entries to Guestbook: 11Jun12, 9Jun12b, 9Jun12a, 8Jun12b, 8Jun12a.
9 June 2012 -- Edited text coding on pages in Site Index: L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z.
8 June 2012 -- Edited text coding on pages in Site Index: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, and K.
6 June 2012 -- Edited graphics coding on all pages in Site Index.
3 June 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Timelines World's Best Award.
1 June 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Moon Award.
31 May 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Virtual Cities War Veteran's Gold Award.
30 May 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Time Keeper Award.
29 May 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Poetic Soul Award.
25 May 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Pelaqita Persians Award.
24 May 2012 -- Edited Trophy Case entries as needed to reflect all recognized rating programs for awards upgraded due to a rating level increase in conformity with my new posting policy.
21 May 2012 -- Added three entries to Guestbook: 17May12 (from an Irishman who apparently drinks and websurfs, with my response), 16May12b (from a Somali with "interesting" English who appears to like the site, with my response), 16May12a (from a somewhat misguided guest who mistakes me for a Leftist partisan in the "War on Women" perhaps based on my seeming anti-Catholic bigotry, with my response).
19 May 2012 -- Added pages to Awards Listed and Displayed By Rating Program and Rating in Trophy Case:
Listing of Independent Awards, Display of Independent Awards,
Edited Site Map to reflect addition of new pages to Trophy Case.
18 May 2012 -- Edited Trophy Case: Alphabetical List, Graphical Display, and other pages as needed.
17 May 2012 -- Edited Trophy Case main page to reflect new posting policy for rated awards without an Award Sites! rating. Edited Unrated Awards pages as needed to implement new policy.
15 May 2012 -- Added Awards Listed and Displayed By Rating Program and Rating section to Trophy Case:
Listing of Awards by Award Sites! Rating, Display of Awards by Award Sites! Rating,
Listing of Awards by AWARD Rating, Display of Awards by AWARD Rating,
Listing of Awards by Belgica Rating, Display of Awards by Belgica Rating,
Listing of Awards by UWSAG Rating, Display of Awards by UWSAG Rating,
Listing of Awards by WebsAwards Rating, Display of Awards by WebsAwards Rating,
Listing of Awards by WSAPTRONIC Rating, Display of Awards by WSAPTRONIC Rating
Edited Site Map to reflect addition of new pages to Trophy Case.
7 May 2012 -- Edited Abortion cartoon was ironic, Pro-life and Anti-abortion Connections, Atheist, Freethought, and Secular Humanist Connections, and Site Index: A to reflect addition of An Interview with a Pro-Life Atheist.
6 May 2012 -- Added entry to Addendum section in Publications:
An Interview with a Pro-Life Atheist
Edited Site Map to reflect addition to Addendum section of Publications.
4 May 2012 -- Added UWSAG Seal of Approval Nominee Badge to Homepage.
3 May 2012 -- Added links for abortion-related Guestbook entries to Site Index: A: Abortion.
1 May 2012 -- Edited and updated all pages in Autobiography, Publications, Gratifications, Photo Album, Websurfing Safari, Curio Cabinet, Site Index, and remaining upper level pages as needed.
28 April 2012 -- Edited and updated all pages in Connections, Trophy Case, and Guestbook as needed. Added link to Site Index: A: Abortion in "Pro-life pages in Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic" section of Pro-life and Anti-abortion Connections.
27 April 2012 -- Edited Government Connections: Congress Members' Sites: House to celebrate being redistricted back into NC-6 and ungerrymandered out of NC-13; and to that end, please allow me to bid a fond farewell to my former Congressman: TAKE THAT BRAD MILLER, YOU GERRYMANDERING "DONKEY"!!!
25 April 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Antrim Town 5 Star Award 2012.
24 April 2012 -- Edited Site Map to link to archived original graphical version of Site Map which has been lurking in the recesses of the site for years now, most tenuously connected to the site it once served so honorably and so valiantly and with such daring and aplomb, acknowledged by but a single link noting its abandonment...
22 April 2012 -- Verified posting of SafeSurf label and coding on all pages in Trophy Case, Guestbook Central, Site Index, and remaining upper level pages.
21 April 2012 -- Verified posting of SafeSurf label and coding on all pages in What's New, Autobiography, Gratifications, Photo Album, Websurfing Safari, and Connections.
20 April 2012 -- Verified posting of SafeSurf label and coding on all pages in Publications: Letters to the Editor, Publications: Newspaper Columns, Publications: Essays, Publications: Literary Commentary, Publications: Poetry, and Publications: Addendum.
18 April 2012 -- Added two awards to Trophy Case: Butterfly & Nature Gift Store Butterfly Award, TheButterflySite.com Award. Added new page to Trophy Case: Trophy Case #9. Edited Trophy Case #8 and Site Map to reflect new page.
17 April 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Renelf's Award of Excellence.
15 April 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: A Scot Down Under Outstanding Site Award.
6 April 2012 -- Added entry to Guestbook: 4Apr12 (from a guest who enjoyed Meeting Satan Herself, my memoir of Madalyn Murray O'Hair live on stage with "Brother Bob" Harrington in 1977, with my response).
31 March 2012 -- Edited Autobiography: Introduction and Contents and Autobiography: Vital Statistics to reflect a common annual life event.
20 March 2012 -- Edited Index Page.
19 March 2012 -- Edited Official Web Site Mascot, the homepage of my owl, Heterodoxos.
15 March 2012 -- Upon rereading my prescient response to regular visitor John T. Jernigan's Guestbook entry of 7 June 2008 in which he requested my take on McCain, Clinton, Obama, and my prediction for the 2008 presidential campaign, added Site Index entries for Campaign 2008, Clinton Machine, John Sidney McCain III, Sarah Palin, "Politics of Personal Destruction", and RINO.
29 February 2012 -- Edited Site Map to celebrate Leap Day.
27 February 2012 -- Edited Affiliations and Autobiography: Vital Statistics.
25 February 2012 -- Edited all pages in Autobiography: The Atheist and Autobiography: The Soldier.
21 February 2012 -- Edited all pages in Publications: Literary Commentary.
20 February 2012 -- Edited all pages in Publications: Letters to the Editor, Publications: Newspaper Columns, Publications: Essays, Publications: Poetry, and Publications: Addendum.
18 February 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Fun Tyme Entertainment Award.
6 February 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Vie's Inn of Wonders Award.
3 February 2012 -- Edited Autobiography: Vital Statistics: Military Service.
2 February 2012 -- Edited Autobiography: Introduction and Contents and Autobiography: Vital Statistics.
31 January 2012 -- Added two entries to Guestbook: 31Jan12 (from a 20-year-old, pro-life, atheist, Aussie mum, with my response), 30Jan12 (requesting my view on horoscopes and astrology, with my response).
27 January 2012 -- Edited and added entries to Gratifications.
22 January 2012 -- Added entry to Guestbook: 20Jan12. Edited and moved Guestbook entries to complete Guestbook Archive: Volume 29; edited Guestbook Central and Guestbook Archive: Volume 28 to reflect addition to Archives. Edited Site Map and other pages as needed to implement new page.
19 January 2012 -- Edited introduction to Zarathustra's Disciple and added Notes from the Forge.
13 January 2012 -- Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic has been online continuously for fourteen years. Added Time Award Badge to Homepage. Added award to Trophy Case: Time Award.
12 January 2012 -- Reposted original book-look Award of Excellence. Edited relevant Trophy Case pages and Site Map to accommodate reposting.
10 January 2012 -- Added entry to Guestbook: 4Dec11 (from an e-mail sent by a visitor who took some pleasure in this site, especially my conversion story, Seeing the Light; or, How I Became a Godless Heathen, with my response in which I further discuss the "seeing the light" phenomenon).
7 January 2012 -- Added Trophy Case: Graphical Display, an index page. Edited Trophy Case and Site Map to reflect new page.
6 January 2012 -- Edited and added a wee bit of site history to "Site Introduction" on Homepage upon realizing that Matt Wallace's The Compleat Heretic has been online continuously for fourteen years come next week; please refer to "What's New" entry for 13 January 1998. Hey, everyone needs a hobby...
5 January 2012 -- Edited and updated Trophy Case and Connections pages as needed.
2 January 2012 -- Added award to Trophy Case: Poetic Soul Award.
1 January 2012 -- Edited Homepage. Edited Site Map. Edited "What's New" page; moved 2011 "What's New" entries to Archive. Edited "What's New" Archive pages for 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, and 1997.
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