Noteworthy Observations or Comments that Various Individuals Have Offered Me in the Period Since May 1987

---"You are definitely not psychotic. You are not at any risk of ever being put in a psychiatric hospital here in the Boston area (approximate quote)." -- Helen Obermeyer, a Brandeis University alumnus who resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the period when she kindly offered me that helpful in-person observation in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1987.

-----"As an attorney member of the State Bar of Texas practicing the law here in Austin, I see no evidence that you (John Kevin McMillan) are mentally ill. In fact, I (private attorney John F. Campbell) recommend that you NOT associate with persons who fail to acknowledge that you are psychologically healthy" (approximate quote). --- private attorney and University of Texas at Austin Law School alumnus John F. Campbell of Campbell and Morgan Law Firm in Austin. Mr. Campbell's law office in 1997 was situated near the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Campbell offered me that very helpful legal advice in person during a one-to-one legal consultation I had with him in 1997 for which that kindly attorney was paid either in full or in large part by the Texas Legal Protection Plan legal-aid service in which I myself have been an individual member ever since 1997. I was invited in person in 1997 to join that legal-aid service by a female Human Resources Department officer of a State Government of Texas agency (now known as the Texas Workforce Commission) where I was employed full-time in Austin, Texas, for a brief period in 1997.

---"I would never call you 'paranoid' based on your reactions to these manipulative circumstances in your own life that you have experienced here in Texas" (approximate quote). --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, in a 1990 or 1991 observation that he volunteered to me on the telephone during a long-distance phone call I made to his and his wife's home in south Austin from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

---"None of the professional journalists who have called me (Roland Klose) and posed questions to me about you (John Kevin McMillan) have expressed any concern to me about your mental health." --- Roland Klose, a professional newspaper reporter and former college roommate of mine, in a disclosure he chose to make during a 1994 phone conversation I had with Roland Klose. Roland Klose volunteered the comment after I asked him on the telephone whether he had heard anyone express any concerns to him about my own mental health during that time period, since I had heard rumors along those lines, I believe I indicated in that long-distance phone conversation. I was surprised by Roland Klose's response on the telephone, partly because it revealed that some news media company had actually made an inquiry about me of some type in a phone call that that media company made to Roland Klose, rather than to myself. Roland Klose never made any statement to me at any time in my entire life that indicated that he somehow "represented" me or "employed" me in any way. I had made that particular 1994 phone call to Roland Klose's private residence in Tennessee from my rental apartment unit in Kermit, Texas, a West Texas town where I was employed full-time as a general-assignment reporter for the "Winkler County News" general-circulation newspaper in Kermit.

----"You (John Kevin McMillan) are still alive. Do you have any evidence that your (cited relative) seeks to harm you?" -- Roland Klose, a self-identified professional newspaper reporter and former college roommate of mine, in a very surprising comment he made to me on the telephone in 1991 from Cuero, Texas. Roland Klose made that comment to me during a long-distance phone call I had made to his and his wife's home in Tennessee from a telephone in Cuero, where I had begun duties as a full-time reporter for the "Victoria (TX) Advocate" general-circulation daily newspaper serving the entire Victoria area of Texas. (It is remotely possible, though, that I actually made this particular long-distance phone call in 1992 to Roland Klose of Tennessee from a telephone in Zapata, Texas, during my period of residence and employment in Zapata as a full-time reporter for the "Zapata County News" general-circulation newspaper.) I had not made any comment to Roland Klose during that phone call in which I mentioned to him that I myself suspected that a cited relative of mine might actually seek to harm my medical health or might actually seek to damage my own creatively vital natural medical longevity in any way.

---"You are being persecuted (exact quote) here in Texas!", Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, stated to me on his own volition in 1991 during a long-distance phone call I made to his and his wife's home in Austin from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

---"When this is all over, I will tell you what I (Kent Neal McMillan) think of the persons who have subjected you to these manipulative circumstances and extensively-manipulated living conditions (approximate quote)." -- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, in an in-person comment that Kent volunteered to me on his own volition in 1988 with a critical-sounding voice and unsmiling expression on his face during a visit I made during my leisuretime to his and his wife's home that they owned in south Austin.

---"You seem to have this attitude of 'entitlement' in which you maintain that you should somehow be financially compensated for alleged violations of your own privacy rights that you claim are somehow occurring. That attitude of yours is out of touch with reality, since there is no legal issue of any type that's applicable to your own living conditions in any way. No one has violated your privacy rights, John....Your entire situation appears to be outside of the scope of government to address any such cited issue. If you consult a private attorney about alleged violations of your privacy rights, you are just throwing your own money away. The attorney cannot pursue any actions that would be helpful to you in any way" (approximate quote).--- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother and an Austin-area married gentleman, in repeated advice Kent offered me on the telephone in the late 1980s as well as in the 1990s and also in the 21st Century.

---"You will feel a lot better when this is all over." --- Kent Neal McMillan, in a surprising comment he volunteered to me during a long-distance phone call I made in 1990 or 1991 to his and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from a rental apartment in Sweetwater, Texas, where I resided and worked as a full-time newspaper reporter for the "Sweetwater Reporter" daily newspaper.

----"The manipulative circumstances in your life these days should be calling your attention to your own separateness from all other human beings." --- Kent Neal McMillan, in a 1986 comment that my oldest biological brother volunteered to me in person in the back yard of his and his wife's home in south Austin.

----"We hope that you decide to stay in Texas." -- Kent Neal McMillan, in a comment that he repeatedly made to me on his own voliton toward the conclusion of 10 or more of the long-distance phone calls I made in the early and mid-1990s to his and his wife's home in Austin from a series of small towns in West Texas where I was residing and holding general-circulation-newspaper reporting jobs. In each of those phone calls, I frequently complained to Kent that my own living conditions in Texas during that particular period were hostile and severe toward me.

----"You are not responsible for 'that other stuff'."-- Dr. Dana Wollney, a medical physician and the husband of my kind personal friend Carol See, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1993 or 1994 to that married couple's home in Columbia, Maryland from the rental apartment unit where I was living in Pampa, Texas.

----"The primary reason why you never make any personal friends from among any of your coworkers in your restaurant jobs in Austin is that none of your coworkers have a career background in journalism. For that reason, you don't have much in common with any of your coworkers." --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, in an observation Kent offered me on the telephone during a local phone call I made to his and his wife home in Austin, Texas, in the first decade of the 21st Century. I made that phone call during my leisuretime from my rental apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin.

---'WHAT IS THE WORST POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR THE LIVING CONDITIONS YOU ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING?'" --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, in a panicky-sounding and very emphatic voice in which Kent very abruptly posed that question to me with emphasis during a 1991 long-distance phone call I had made at my expense to his and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from the rental apartment unit in which I was residing in Sweetwater, Texas.

----"I recommend that you not file any complaints of any type during this period." --- John Schlueter, a personal friend of mine, neighbor of mine, and a local realtor and business owner as well as high-ranking staff member at an ABC-affiliate television station in northwest Austin, in emphatic 2011 or 2012 advice that that kindly married gentleman volunteered to me on the telephone. John Schluter offered me that emphatic advice after I repeatedly informed him that I was very sure that I was being victimized by personal injury crimes. as well as by anal-rape crimes during my sleep, that were allegedly being inflicted on me by alleged illegal intruders inside the bolt-locked top-floor, vaulted-ceiling, one-bedroom apartment unit that I rented in northwest Austin.

---"They are trying to get you to move out of the Austin area and pursue a job in journalism." --- John Schlueter, a personal friend of mine and KVUE Television Station employee, in a 2012 or 2011 observation that he volunteered to me on the telephone in Austin, Texas. I failed to ask John Schlueter to whom he referred when he began that appartently candid observation to me with the pronoun "they."

The Best Compliments or Words of Praise that I Have Ever Received in My Own Life

Among the very finest compliments or words of praise that other human beings have verbalized to me in my own life are the following:

---"Your father (Dr. Calvin McMillan) and I think the world of you!"--Mrs. Phyllis McMillan, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1990 or 1991 to my parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas, from a pay telephone inside a Pizza Inn chain restaurant in Big Spring, Texas (or possibly instead in Sweetwater, Texas).

---"You are the greatest person I have ever known!" -- Sean Reilly, a former coworker of mine at IHOP Duval restaurant, in a very kind and inspirational comment he volunteered to me during a visit of his in 2003 or so inside that franchise restaurant of the International House of Pancakes in Austin, Texas.

---"...I am very proud to call you a member of our family!" -- Aunt Allegra Dane in a 2012 comment that Aunt Allegra volunteered to me on the telephone during a long-distance phone call I made that year to her and her husband's dairy-farm house near Iowa City im Johnson County, Iowa. Several months later in 2012, the kindly and benevolent and devout United Methodist Church member Aunt Allegra passed away.

---"All brainwaves from you are gratefully accepted!" -- Ellen Goodman, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and Harvard University (Radliff College) alumnus, in a signed reply letter to me on official "Boston Globe" daily newspaper stationery that she wrote and mailed to me in late 1988 or January 1989 during a 12-month time period in which I resided in El Campo, Texas, and worked full-time for the "El Campo Leader-News" general-circulation semi-weekly newspaper, with Mr. Richard Goldsmith my immediate supervisor in the newsroom of that award-winning Texas Press Association member newspaper that was owned during that period by Fred Barbee and his son, Chris, in El Campo.

---"You always were a very loving person!" --- Michael Crothers, a self-identified fiction writer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a 1984 or 1985 long-distance phone call I made to his mother's home in south Minneapolis from a home in Worcester, Massachusetts, where I was myself residing during that time period.

---"You (John Kevin McMillan) should take pride in your own emotional and aesthetic transsexualism (or law-abiding form of heterophilia), in which you as a morally and aesthetically straight and law-abiding single adult Anglo gentleman identify with and feel deeper emotional affinity toward a higher percentage of all law-abiding heterosexual gentlemen and all law-abiding heterosexual ladies than the other cited subpopulations(approximate quote). Your emotional and aesthetic transsexualism permeates your writing, and is a very natural and healthy affinity for you in the complete absence of your ever being expected or required at any time to undergo any sex-change operation per se (approximate quote, with some elaboration for the sake of clarification) during your own lifetime." --- Michael Crothers, a self-identified fiction writer and English as a Second Language Instructor, during a long-distance phone call I made to that kindly older gentleman in 1990 or 1991 from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas. I was employed at that time as a full-time reporter for "The Sweetwater (TX) Reporter" daily newspaper in West Texas. Mr. Crothers added in that same 1990 or 1991 phone call that if I myself were to ever at any time move to Minneapolis, Minnesota, from Sweetwater, Texas, Michael Crothers would welcome the opportunity to himself meet me in person inside a restaurant in Minneapolis for a friendly conversation in that heavily populous Minnesotan city, he volunteered in that leisuretime phone call I made to him at his kindly Mother's home she owned in southeast Minneapolis.

----"I have never once questioned your honesty in all of my dealings with you. You are by far the most thoughtful, considerate, and socially cautious person I have met in Austin, and I'm glad to know you." --- Andy Hogue, a politically conservative personal friend of mine and former neighbor of mine with a very impressive professional journalism background, in a January 4, 2012, E-mail reply note that Andy very kindly wrote and sent to me.

---"You, and I, have a great future....Someday a book anthologizing your various pithy observations will get published, with a title such as 'The Wit and Wisdom of John (Kevin) McMillan'" (approximate quote).--- Mark Williamson, then a law school student at Columbia University in New York City, New York, in a signed 1984 letter that Mark Williamson kindly and generously wrote and sent to me at my rental apartment unit address of that time period in Worcester, Massachusetts.

---"You are warm and funny and intelligent." --- Mark H.B. Williamson, a University of Minnesota alumnus, who apparently wrote that very kind evaluation of me in a signed 1984 letter he wrote to me during a period when he was enrolled as a law-school student at Columbia University in New York City, New York.

---"You are more intellectually vital and philosophically deeper than 99 percent of the people out there! (approximate quote)" --- Bob Percy, a personal friend of mine in the Worcester area of Massachusetts during a time period of late 1984 in which I had been or was employed full-time as a reporter for the "Worcester County News" general-circulation weekly magazine.

---"You would make a very fine story-assignments editor for a medium-size midwestern daily newspaper!" -- Greg Freeman, a former schoolmate of mine at Washington University in St. Louis, and later a columnist for the "St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch" daily newspaper, in a very kind oral observation that Greg Freeman volunteered to me on the telephone in a long-distance phone call I made in the first decade of the 21st Century to his "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" newspaper office from my private apartment unit in Austin, Texas.

---"The public-policy-minded brainstorming letters you have written and shared with government officials and the 'Austin American-Statesman' have made a big contribution to the city of Austin. That contribution by yourself is especially remarkable since you are doing this on your own, in connection with your new (Progressive Prohibitionist Religion) religion in which you are the only member" (approximate quote). --- Arnold Garcia, Editor of the Editorial Page, "The Austin American-Statesman," in a 1997 or 1998 comment that Mr. Garcia very kindly volunteered to me on the telephone during a local phone call I made to his newspaper office from my efficiency rental apartment unit at View Point Aparrtments. View Point Apartments are situated among fraternity houses along Leon Street, aboout five blocks west of the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"You have a very fine reputation for intellectual brilliance... (approximate quote)"---Dr. Calvin McMillan, my biological father and a Professor of Botany at The University of Texas at Austin, in a December 1990 statement that Father very kindly made to me outdoors at the Austin municipal airport he had driven me to that day. He drove me to the airport so I ould take a plane flight back to West Texas in order to myself resume my full-time reporting duties as an education-beat and general-assignment-beat reporter and columnist for the "Sweetwater Reporter" general-circulation daily newspaper in Sweetwater, Texas.

---"You are TOO conscientious, Kevin!" -- Mrs. Phyllis McMillan, in an oral statement that my biological mother made to me several times during my early childhood inside our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas, that comment having conveyed what I myself regard as a nice implied compliment from my beloved biological mother.

---"You exemplify the great resourcefulness that Texans are noted for!" (approximate quote)-- Texas Governor Ann Richards, in a nice reply letter to me on official State of Texas stationery that Governor Richards signed and mailed to me from the Governor's Office in Austin, Texas, during a period of the early 1990s when I was employed as a full-time reporter for a daily newspaper in West Texas.

---"You remind me of the Roman Empire!" --- Valerio Caldesi Valeri, an Italian citizen and instructor in the Classics Department at The University of Texas at Austin, in a 2000 compliment he offered me on his own volition as I drove that Classics scholar to an Italian-style gelatti eatery in Austin, Texas.

---"You have always been a perfect gentleman in your conduct toward me as my roommate." -- Valerio Caldesi Caleri, an Italian citizen and UT-Austin Classics Department instructor, in an unsolicited 2000 comment that Valerio made to me several times over the ocurse of the approximately 8-month period in which we roomed together inside an efficiency apartment unit at View Point Apartments, an apartment complex situated about five blocks west of the main campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"We at the 'Austin American-Statesman' admire your brain!" -- Pancho Gomez, a polite assistant to Editorial Page Editor Arnold Garcia, during a phone call several years ago I myself had made to the newsroom of "Austin American-Statesman" daily newspaper in Austin, Texas, relating to a letter to the editor I had submitted to that Cox Newspapers-owned daily newspaper in Austin.

---"I appreciate your many fine contributions to the State of Texas!" (approximate quote)--State of Texas Comptroller Carol Keeton Rylander Strayhorn, in an official signed reply letter from State Comptroller Strayhorn that she wrote and mailed to me during her tenure as State Comptroller from her state agency headquarters in Austin, Texas.

---"You are the most thoughtful (exact word she used) person I have ever known!" (approximate quote)-- Victoria Loe, in a Christmas Season greeting card message she very kindly wrote and mailed to me via the U.S. Postal Service in 1993 or 1994, during a period in which I resided in Pampa, Texas, and I worked full-time as a reporter for "The Pampa Daily News" general-circulattion daily newspaper serving that entire city and nearby towns as well.

---"You are unbelievably straight for an intellectual!" -- Andrew McGavren, a University of Texas at Austin alumnus and former UT-Austin English Department major and former Prather Dormitory neighbor of mine at UT-Austin, during a 1988 in-person conversation I had with Andrew McGavren and his kindly German-born wife, Mrs. Henrike McGavren, inside that married couple's home in east Austin.

---"Among the IHOP (International House of Pancakes) managers in the Austin area, you are legendary for your honesty!" --- Diane, a female Assistant Manager at IHOP Duval restaurant in Austin, Texas, in a very nice comment she volunteered to me in the waitstation area of IHOP Duval Restaurant one workshift for me as a waiter inside that franchise restaurant in the first decade of the 21st Century.

----"You are very honest. You are definitely that!" --- Eduardo Arreguin, a kindly neighbor of mine at my current apartment complex in northwest Austin and a coworker of mine at two respective chain restaurants where each of us were or are employed as a waiter in the early 21st Century.

---"You are as honest as the day is long!" --- Bill Leach, a former high-school schoolmate of mine and former colleague of mine on the Stephen F. Austin High School debate squad of Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas, in a comment that Bill kindly volunteered to me on the telephone during a local phone call I made to him at his business office at Longhorn Meat Company in east Austin from my apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in the first decade of the 21st Century. That praise from Bill was especially gratifying parrtly because Bill Leach was also a private attorney member of the State Bar of Texas.

---"You are one of my all-time favorite people!" -- Dr. Douglas Weiner, then a Russian Studies instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., during a one-to-one Holiday Season dinnertime meal I had with Dr. Weiner inside a restaurant in central Boston.

---"Happy New Year to a future Pulitzer!" -- Elspeth Rostow, a professor of public-policy studies and chief administrator at The University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs, in a Holiday Season postcard that Professor Rostow wrote and mailed to me in 1983 or 1984 at my rental apartment address near the campus of The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

---"You remind me of Cary Grant (the Hollywood actor with a British background), except you walk faster!" --- Professor Lewis Gould of The University of Texas at Austin History Department, in a 1978 or 1979 unsolicited observation he made to me on the telephone during my period as a reporter for "The Daily Texan" student newspaper on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"Your writing style reminds me of Mark Twain." --- Wade Zwiener, a University of Minnesota undergraduate student and reporter at the "Minnesota Daily" student newspaper, in a kind comment he volunteered to me in 1983 as Wade very generously offered me editing assistance for a humor column of mine I was writing at that time inside my efficiency top-floor rental apartment unit near the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.

----"Your writing style reminds me of Virginia Woolfe." -- Michael Crothers, a University of Minnesota student and writer, in a 1983 or 1984 comment he volunteered to me in Minneapolis.

----"The moral purity of your lifestyle here in Pampa, Texas, reminds me of a heroic and virtuous chaste fictional character from a Victorian Era novel of 19th Century Great Britain!" ---a female brunette adult resident of the Pampa area of Texas, who herself somehow had heard about me and introduced herself to me that day as I stood outdoors in Pampa, Texas, a city where I was employed full-time as a reporter for "The Pampa Daily News" daily newspaper.

---"You have excellent telephone manners, and you are consistently very polite and friendly when you answer the telephone on behalf of 'The New Ulm Journal' in our newspaper's news and editorial department here in New Ulm, Minnesota (approximate quote)/" --- Steve Fox, my managing editor and head work supervisor at that general-circulation daily newspaper, in a spring of 1980 evaluation of me that Steve Fox volunteered to me one workshift of mine in the newsroom of that regional newspaper.

----"I and members of my family think very highly of you!" --- Ernie Motloch, a very kind and very gentlemanly former work supervisor of mine at Souper Salad Lakeline restaurant near Lakeline Mall in northwest Austin, in an inspirational 2013 oral statement that Ernie, a longtime personal friend of mine, made to me on the telephone from the Temple area of Texas.

---"You have the potential to become a great writer---no shit (sic)!" -- Lynne Layton, a former Comparative Literature instructor of mine at Washington University in St. Louis, in a summer of 1979 signed personal letter that Lynne Layton very kindly wrote and mailed to me at my home mailing address in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during a multi-month period in which I was employed full-time as a suburban-beat news and feature reporter for the "Miami Herald"-owned "Broward Times" general-circulation newspaper based in suburban Tamarac, Florida.

---"You could become the next Art Buchwald (a famous satirical oped columnist for 'The Washington Post')!" --- Sarah Goodfriend, in a late 1970s signed personal letter that former schoolmate of mine at Stephen F. Austin High School wrote and sent to me from another U.S. state.

---"You have a sense of humor a mile wide!" -- Richard Newberger (sp?), a graduating high school senior in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, in a signed personal reply letter he wrote and mailed to me in 1975 after each of us had been notified by administrators at Washington University in St. Louis that Richard Newberger and I had been pre-assigned by those administrators to room together inside a dormitory at Washington University in the fall semester of 1975.

---"Personally, I think you're a scream!" -- Matt Shands, in a 1982 or 1981 comment he volunteered to me between laughs outside of the apartment complex in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I was residing in a rental apartment unit at the time.

----"You definitely are smart enough to work and write for 'The New York Times'." -- Charles Hilty, a journalism instructor of mine and then-night-editor for the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch," in a very kind 1975 or 1976 in-person statement to me Mr. Hilty made after class in the college classroom where he taught a journalism course I was enrolled in at the time.

----"You are one of the gentlest people I have ever met!" -- Max Alberts, a self-identified Minneapolis writer and University of Minnesota Math Department staff member, in a 1983 or 1984 observation he volunteered to me on the telephone during a local phone conversation I had with him in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.

----"You were definitely the nicest and friendliest person I ever became acquainted with in the entire Austin area during my multi-year period of living in Austin (approximate quote)." -- Dan Knezek, in a personal E-mail letter that that former tennis partner of mine in Austin, Texas, very kindly wrote and sent to me from the new U.S. state Dan had moved to immediately after moving away from Austin in the first decade of the 21st Century.

----"You are one of the warmest and nicest persons I have ever become acquainted with! (approximate quote)." -- Mark Johnson, a University of Minnesota undergraduate student and "Minnesota Daily" student newspaper reporter from Duluth, in a Holiday Season 1983 or 1984 greeting card that Mark Johnson wrote and mailed to me in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

---"You have an other-worldly intensity to you that suggests you are a visitor on Earth, and you came here from another planet in outer space!" --- Christen Pistulka, a University of Minnesota college student and coworker of mine at the "Minnesota Daily" student newspaper in Minneapolis, in a 1983 or 1982 comment Ms. Pistulka volunteered to me on the telephone during a local phone call I had made to her private residence from the fraternity house near the University of Minnesota campus where I was residing at that time.

----"You are very rare, and you should be very proud of that!" --- Aurelio Contreras, a former coworker of mine at a 24-hour-a-day franchise chain restaurant in Williamson County, Texas, in a January of 2014 comment that Aurelio very kindly volunteered to me in person during a brief conversation I had with Aurelio in Williamson County, Texas.

---"I would like to work for you someday, since I believe you would make a very honorable and kind and generous employer for me (approximate quote)" --- Aurelio Contreras, then a coworker of mine at a 24-hour-a-day franchise chain restaurant in Williamson County, Texas, in a thoughtful unsolicited comment that Aurelio, a self-identified immigrant from Mexico, very kindly veralized to me inside our restaurant chain workplace.

----"You are the very finest person of this entire group of 'Daily Texan' staff members attending this graduation party tonight!" -- Michael Stephens, a former news editor at "The Daily Texan" student newspaper affiliated with Texas Student Publications on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin, in a kind comment that "Daily Texan" news and editorial department staff member Michael Stephens volunteered to me in the late spring of 1979 on the property of a private rental home in Austin where one of the "Daily Texan" staff members resided at that time.

----"You are better than everybody else!" --- John Schlueter, in an unsolicited word of praise for me that that personal friend of mine, neighbor of mine, local business owner, married gentleman and father, and KVUE Television Station production department manager in northwest Austin very generously offered me in person from inside his motor vehicle during a brief visit John Schlueter made in about 2010 to the parking lot of Wind River Crossing Apartment complex near Building 3 (the multi-unit building where I myself have resided in a top-floor vaulted-ceiling one-bedroom apartment unit ever since January 2002).

----"I greatly admire your investigative reporting for 'The Daily Texan' that is exposing major scandals implicating several administrators at The University of Texas at Austin! Keep up the good work!" (approximate quote)--- Mike Laur, a very talented photographer for "The Daily Texan", in an unsolicited word of praise for me that he very generously offered me in 1978 after Mike Laur approached me one day in 1978 on his own initiative as I dined alone, or possibly with coworker Margaret Watson of "The Daily Texan" news and editorial department staff, in the outdoor patio section of the "Les Amis" cafe (a restaurant operating at that time that was situated about one block from the main campus of The University of Texas at Austin).

---"The investigative series of articles you wrote for 'The Daily Texan' student newspaper that exposed major administrative corruption by Oswald Roels, the Belgian-born director of the University of Texas-owned Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas, has triggered lots of ecstatic celebration here at Port Aransas after his resignation as director! We support-staff employees of the institute here in Port Aransas are very grateful to you and your father, Dr. Calvin McMillan, for the kind interest in our institute and support for the 'little people' here in Port Aransas that you have both expressed through that investigative series that had major impact here!" (approximate quote) --- a signed letter to me in 1978 from a female secretary employed at that University of Texas System Administration-affiliated research institute in Port Aransas.

---"That oped column of yours that was recently published in 'The Daily Texan' campus newspaper at UT-Austin did a fine job of cleverly ridiculing a male teaching assistant (TA) in the Government Department at UT-Austin! That oped column was very funny, and prompted me to laugh quite a bit at the ridiculous absurdity of that TA's teaching style!" ---- my oldest brother, Kent Neal McMillan, in verbal praise he kindly volunteered to me in 1977 inside the dining room of our parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas.

----"The news articles you wrote for 'The Daily Texan' that presented a critical vantage point toward the UT-Austin Administration were very well done! Your writing for 'The Texan' was cutting but not crushing, and I just wanted to give you a phone call today to express my appreciation for your fine work!" --- Mrs. Mike Pankewicz, a former New Yorker and personal friend of my mother, Mrs. Phyllis McMillan, both of whom were longtime members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, in a very unexpected local phone call to me from Mrs. Pankiewicz that I received in 1978 or 1979 inside my rental apartment unit along Rio Grande Street near the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"You have the perfect temperament for a newspaper journalist: You are skeptical without being cynical." --- Celia Dugger, a former schoolmate of mine at Stephen F. Austin High School of Austin (TX) Independent School District, in a December of 1978 or December of 1979 comment that Celia very kindly volunteered to me during a one-to-one meeting I had with Cel;ia in which I showed her newspaper articles I had written as we sat across from each other at a dining table inside the "Les Amis" cafe near the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"You were never ugly to me, which makes it easy for me to continue providing you with favorable professional references on your behalf" (approximate quote)." ----Mr. Chris Barbee, then managing editor and an owner of "The El Campo (TX) Leader-News" general-circulation newspaper in El Campo, Texas, that primarily serves residents of the western section of Wharton County, Texas, in a telephone call I made to Chris Barbee in the first decade of the 21st Century from my rental apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin.

----"It's hard to dislike you, since you are so friendly to everyone (approximate quote)!" -- Mr. Chris Barbee, during a summer of 1997 phone call I made during my leisuretime to my former newspaper-industry employer from an apartment complex where I resided at that time near The University of Texas at Austin.

---"It's good that you yourself have chosen to lead a completely celibate lifestyle throughout this period and under these circumstances (approximate quote)." --- Mr. Chris Barbee, a kindly personal friend of mine, former employer of mine in El Campo, Texas, and a married gentleman and father residing in El Campo, Texas, during a long-distance early 21st Century phone call I made to Chris and his wife's (Carol Barbee's) home in El Campo, Texas, from my one-bedroom, top-floor, vaulted-ceiling apartment unit in Austin, Texas, at the Westdale-managed Wind River Crossing Apartments complex in northwest Austin. I have resided in that very same bolt-locked apartment unit in a completely celibate manner throughout all of my conscious or waking hours ever since January 2002, with myself ALWAYS sleeping ALONE on my own bed, and I made it very emphatically clear from the very start to each of the two total respective male adult roommates I have ever roomed with in my apartment unit--- this from mid-April 2011 through May 31, 2011, in the case of a self-identified "citizen of Indonesia" who stated his employer at the time as the British-owned "Pearson Educational Testing Services" in north Austin, and, more recently, from April 27, 2013, to the present (February 13, 2014, currently being the present) in regard to an older self-identified Anglo man and self-identified American citizen. who roomed with me during that period----that I myself (John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas) DO NOT agree to have any physical contact of any type or ANY sexual contact of any type with EITHER of those two respective roommates. Each of those two respective adult male roommates stated to me from the very start and at all times while rooming with me that he would fully honor that very clear and unambiguous "no contact" policy of mine at all times.

---"I will feel a lot better about Florida from knowing that you are there." --- Professor David Perry of The University of Texas at Austin Department of Government, in a 1979 telephone call I made to his UT-Austin campus office from my "Daily Texan" student newspaper workplace, with myself informing Professor Perry in that phone call that I had accepted a reporting-job offer in 1979 over the telephone from the "Miami Herald"-owned "Broward Times" of Tamarac, Florida.

----"The 'Miami Herald' editors were very impressed by your writing for 'The Daily Texan', and I have heard that they plan to promote you to a reporting job at the Neighbors section of 'the Herald' by December of this year (1979), if you do well here as a reporter for 'The Broward Times'."--- Clint Williams, a departing reporter for the "Miami Herald"-owned "Broward Times" newspaper in Tamarac, Florida, during an in-person conversation that Clint Williams had with me in or near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, within a few days after I arrived by airplane in mid-1979 at Fort Lauderdale's international airport in order to myself relocate to Florida from Austin, Texas. Clint Williams had been assigned by editor in chief Donald Crull of "The Broward Times" to help train me into the Coral Springs (FL.) beat and Lauderdale (FL) beat that he himself had held as a full-time reporter for that suburban newspaper in western Broward County, Florida.

---"My teenage son Brandon has told me that you were a big inspiration to him when you got together with him several times in 1996 as his unofficial Big Brother here in Denver City (Texas). Brandon has done very well in his academic pursuits at Denver City High School in West Texas, and I partly give you credit for Brandon's great success here as a student." --- Nancy Campbell, the single-parent mother of Brandon Campbell, in an early 21st Century long-distance phone call I made to Mrs. Campbell's home in Denver City, Texas, from my rental apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin.

----"I would trust you with my own children." --- Cheryl McVey (sp?), an immediate supervisor of mine in my full-time clerical support-staff job at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, during a meeting with me in 1995 inside Ms. McVey's office on the eastern campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Ms. McVey made the reference to her children on her own intiative during that brief one-to-one meeting I had with her inside her office; and in fact, I myself had not made any comment about children in any of my own comments to her.

Part II of Who Definitely Does Not Qualify for or Is Not Appropriate for Prospective Membership in my "Honor Society" Progressive Prohibitionist Religion

---Anyone who has ever consumed any quantity of drinking alcohol at any time in the most recent 24-month period.

--Anyone who has ever been diagnosed as alcoholic at any time in their own life.

---Anyone who has ever consumed any quantity of marijuana or cocaine or heroin or any other illicit drug at any time in the most recent 24-month period.

---Anyone who has ever at any time in their life ever at any time been addicted to marijuana or cocaine or methamphetamine or heroin or any other illicit drug.

---Anyone who has ever consumed any quantity of tobacco at any time in the last 24-month period.

----Anyone who has ever been addicted to consumption of tobacco at any time in their own life.

----Anyone who wears a beard or mustache or goatee on his face, or whose face is generally not cleanshaven.

--Anyone who has knowingly permitted the penetration of their own skin through the infliction of one or more "tattoos" on their own body that are currently still emblazoned on the skin of that human being's body.

---Anyone who frequently and routinely verbalizes profanity or obcenities in everyday conversations with others.

---Anyone who habitually or frequently victimizes others by subjecting them to pranks or criminal mischief.

---Anyone who is uncomfortable about being a member of a modern new religion that opposes "arranged marriages" or "compelled relationships", and that also emphatically opposes slavery.

---Anyone who is uncomfortable about being a member of a new religion that strongly supports the legal and human right of any married person at any time to obtain in a court of law a legal and law-abiding divorce from any cited "spouse" or any cited "marriage partner" of the former individual.

---Anyone who is uncomfortable about being a member of a new and non-Christian religion that very emphatically supports revision of the law by the government that authorizes court-ordered capital punishment of the vast majority of the persons, regardless of whether they are male or female, who are convicted in a court of law of having committed the heinous and barbarous and unconscionable crime of either ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE (attempted murder) or HOMICIDE (murder).

---Anyone who supports "vigilanteeism," or "taking the law into my own hands," as that individual may put it.

---Anyone who describes himself as being an "anarchist."

---Anyone who maintains that they have the asserted "legal right" to pursue punitive measures violating the privacy rights or harming the medical health of human beings whose beliefs or "prejudices" or conduct or "attitudes" are disliked by the former individual.

---Anyone who exhibits a contempt toward or defiance of the very emphatic belief that 99 percent or more of all human relationships in life, and 99 percent or more of all human love relationships in particular, are, in fact, observably platonic or non-sexual (without any sexual contact per se or any sexual intercourse per se) in nature.

---Anyone who claims that his own "knowledge" or "information" about a deity or "God" should be based on the cited observations or impressions or statements written or verbalized by human beings at any time before the 20th Century.

---Anyone who identifies himself as being "atheist" or "agnostic."

---Anyone who is uncomfortable with the "implicit deism" or "modern deism" tenets of the non-Christian and factually-minded as well as modern Progressive Prohibitionist Religion.

---Anyone who is uncomfortable with the emphasis of "implicit deism" and "modern deism" on any references to any hypothetical "deity" or "supernatural power" referring to precisely-documented scientific and factual evidence that might ever be derived or obtained DURING OR AFTER THE 21ST CENTURY.

---Anyone who is uncomfortable with the view of "implicit deists" and "modern deists" that frequent references to vague abstract nouns such as "God" or a "Commander of the Universe" are unhelpful and confusing and even harmful to human beings.

----Anyone who is uncomfortable with a modern approach to deistic religion that features no prayer on any occasion, and that generally eschews as narcissistic and delusional any imaginary and undocumented "conversations with God".

----Anyone who is uncomfortable with an emphasis by modern religion on rational and benevolent and enlightened goal-setting involving effort by individuals setting and later pursuing those goals that they have each delineated for themselves.

WHO DEFINITELY DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR MEMBERSHIP IN MY STILL-ONE-MEMBER, NON-CHRISTIAN, IMPLICITLY-DEISTIC PROGRESSIVE PROHIBITIONIST RELIGION

The following persons are among those individuals who definitely DO NOT qualify for prospective or actual membership in my non-Christian and permanently alcohol-free and still-one-member (myself, only) and fully-independent Progressive Prohibitionist Religion:

---Persons who have attempted to subject me to, or who have subjected me to, any alleged poisoning or deliberate contamination of my food or beverages at any time.

---Persons who have a felony-conviction criminal record.

---Persons who are current members of an "organized-crime family."

---Persons who have been fully aware that I myself am being victimized by crime against my wishes, and who have chosen not to report ANY crime evidence they themselves are aware of, or any rumors about those crimes that they themselves have heard or learned about, to ANY reputable official government law-enforcement agency with any possible jurisdiction on that type of crime case.

---Persons who have subjected me to any anonymous communications violating my own privacy rights at any time.

---Persons who have subjected me to the outrageous and very injurious sex crime of rape in a context victimizing myself.

---Persons subjecting me to any form of crime, including unauthorized and injurious "medical services," during periods in which I am asleep and unconscious.

---Persons who have knowingly inflicted pain on my legs or my anus or any other portion of my own my body during periods when I am, in fact, sleeping alone on my own bed inside my bolt-locked private bedroom of my bolt-locked apartment unit.

----Persons who have knowingly and deliberately attempted to rob me of hundreds of hours of sleep inside my locked private bedroom of my rental apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in the period since April 15, 2011, in particular---sleep that I would have otherwise benefited from through a refreshed feeling I would have experienced upon waking up after a full night's rest of uninterrupted sleep each morning.

----Persons who have failed to acknowledge my legal and human right to myself enjoy full and complete celibacy, without ANY physical contact or ANY sexual contact from any other human being or any animal or beast, for that matter.

----Persons who have subjected me to any type of alleged personal injury crime.

----Persons who have deliberately and willfully attempted to injure me or handicap me or inflict a disability on me or harm my own medical health or undermine my own medical lifespan or my own creatively vital medical longevity.

----Persons who have subjected me to slander or libel victimizing myself.

---Persons who have subjected me to fraudulent or flagrantly false verbal communications or flagrantly fraudulent or false verbalized warnings to myself.

---Persons who have expressed or verbalized defiance of my own legal right and human right to myself EXCLUDE from my own life each of the persons whom I have already rejected from my own life.

----Persons who have allegedly spied on me in violation of my own privacy rights.

----Persons who subject me to verbalized death threats, or who sponsor verbalization of death threats that were inflicted on me by anyone.

----Persons who either attempt to subject me to a "snuff movie" in which I myself am or was ever previuosly targeted for "victim" status, or who themselves sponsor or conspire toward or make financial payments toward planned production of a heinously homicidal movie of that very infamous type.

----Persons who have allegedly stalked me, an outrageous and flagrant violation of the state penal code of Texas that a helpful police officer for the Denver City Police Department in Denver City, Texas, volunteered to me in person was allegedly or possibly occurring in a context allegedly victimizing myself in Denver City, Texas, in the year 1996, in particular.

----Persons who have knowingly subjected me to continuous and medically injurious noise pollution over a multi-hour period, a multi-day period, a multi-month period, or a multi-year period.

----Persons who have already been rejected by me from my own life.

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The Most Humorous or Noteworthy Insults and Ominous Comments and 'Back-Handed Compliments' That Other Individuals have Verbalized to Me

---"No matter where you go in Austin, you will be geting raped during your sleep!"---John Schlueter, a personal friend of mine and high-ranking television production team staff member for the Belo-owned and ABC-affiliated KVUE Television Station in Austin, Texas, with the kindly John Schlueter also expressing major concern to me in our cited February 2012 local phone conversation about alleged violations of my own privacy rights and other legal rights of mine in Austin, Texas, that allegedly exceeded legal-rights violations endured by ANY other Austin resident whom John Schlueter could recall having ever learned about at any prior time in his entire life, he helpfully pointed out.

---"There appears to be an attempt by many people in town to drive you out of the Austin area!"---David Ferris, civil probate director for the Travis County Clerk's Office of Travis County Government in the Travis County Courthouse in downtown Austin, Texas, during a 2001 phone call I made to his office from an apartment unit in northwest Austin I had moved into in August 2001. I was very surprised by that unsolicited "disclosure" to me by Mr. Ferris, particularly since I myself do not recall having ever met Mr. Ferris in person on any occasion in my entire life.

---"And when you decide to move out of Austin, give me a phone call before you leave town. I'd like to talk with you at that point about what your plans are." --- Austin (TX) Police Department (APD) Officer James Turner, the APD-designated "liaison" officer to myself during that period, in a 2012 or 2013 comment he made to me on the telephone, after I politely mentioned to Officer Turner that the alleged continued failure of the Austin Police Department under his apparent guidance during that entire multi-month period to diligently investigate any of my numerous criminal-law complaints I'd filed with APD in 2012 and 2013 about myself being victimized by one or more alleged illegal intruders inside my bolt-locked apartment unit in northwest Austin, might compel me to myself move out of Austin, Texas, at some future point on my own initiative. In response to Officer Turner's reply to me on the telephone in that possibly last-ever phone conversation I had with him, I politely pointed out that in view of Officer Turner's own alleged repeated failure to ever acknowledge to me that any of the crime evidence I had shared with him merited further investigation by APD, that evidence from me having included numerous infrared motion-sensitive camera photographs obtained on my own behalf from inside my locked private bedroom of my bolt-locked apartment unit during my bedtime hours that I had sent him by E-mail, I would NOT be inclined to make any courtesy phone call to APD Officer James Turner before I move out of Austin, Texas.

---"These things can turn around very quickly, which often involves an out-of-court settlement."---Austin (TX) Police Department Officer James Turner, in a 2012 or 2013 telephone conversation he had with me while on duty for that municipal law-enforcement agency of the City Government of Austin.

The conversation I had with Officer Turner specifically related to my having filed numerous crime reports with the Austin Police Department (APD) ever since April 28, 2011, in particular, in which I officially complained to APD that I myself had been victimized during my bedtime hours by alleged anal-rape crimes and alleged personal injury crimes inside my bolt-locked and locked rental-apartment unit on a daily and year-round basis, with the exceptions of the mornings of the early morning hours of Saturday, September 3, 2011, and of Saturday, September 10, 2011, respectively.

----"And even if you do decide to move to another city or town in the United States, you will continue to perceive yourself as being subjected to personal injury crimes and anal rape crimes on a daily basis during your sleep inside your bolt-locked private residence." --- Austin Police Department Officer James Turner in a very surprising unsolicited comment he made to me in 2012 at my apartment complex in northwest Austin. Officer James Turner throughout a multi-month and multi-year time period was the APD-assigned "liaison" to myself in connection with the alleged continuous and continuing daily and year-round personal-injury crimes and anal-rape factual crime reports, accompanied by crime evidence I had provided to APD officers, that I had politely and diligently filed with the Austin Police Department throughout the entire multi-year period ever since and including April 28, 2011. My April 28, 2011, crime report to APD about my being a victim of anal rape during my sleep on a bed I own where I was sleeping ALONE (as always, I might add) inside my rental apartment unit, APD Crime Report Number 11-1180447, prompted APD to officially authorize a forensic medical exam on me on that one total occasion from the last two and one-half year period through the present (October 3, 2013). APD maintained that the results from the April 28, 2011, forensic exam on me found no evidence that I myself had been raped by anyone during my sleep. APD has repeatedly declined to authorize any subsequent forensic DNA medical exam on me on any occasion since April 28, 2011, even though I have repeatedly and politely requested official APD authorization of DNA exams of that type on myself in the multi-year period since April 28, 2011.

-----"I myself know you are intelligent, but some other people don't see you that way. They think you are stupid or mildly retarded, and they look upon you as someone who might make a perfect victim." --- Forrester Farris, a refreshingly candid coworker of mine at one of my restaurant workplaces in Austin, during an off-duty conversation he initiated with me that took place inside the first-rate chain restaurant where we are each employed.

----"One of our regular customers inside this IHOP 290 restaurant is a middle-aged woman who repeatedly states to me inside this restaurant that she suspects you of being a serial killer." ---Jed Cecil, then-general manager of an IHOP franchise restaurant near Interstate Highway 35 in central north Austin, in a very surprising disclosure he made to me in 2010 or 2011 during working hours for me at IHOP 290 restaurant. I myself am civil and law-abiding and DO NOT have any criminal-conviction record, as I have politely emphasized to employers and prospective employers in the Austin area on numerous occasions in recent years.

---"Your most recent report to me about citedly substandard conditions in the men's restroom of our IHOP 290 restaurant is yet another example of looney-tunes stuff from you! Who cares? The ONLY report from you I ever want to get is if you happen to find a dead body on our restaurant's property. And if you do find a dead body, just call 911 to report it! Don't bother telling me about it!" --- Jed Cecil, then-general manager of IHOP 290 restaurant in north central Austin, in a reply of this type he made to me on numerous ocasions during my period of employment there as a full-time waiter from 2009-2011.

---"You would not last long in prison, since you would get quickly identified as a snitch---and the other inmates hates snitches! You would never get out of prison alive!" --- Jed Cecil, then-general manager of mine at the IHOP 290 ACG-franchise-owned IHOP chain restaurant in along Koenig Lane near Interstate Highway 35, in a comment he made to me in 2010 while standing about five feet from the manager's office. Mr. Cecil made that particular comment to me during a workshift of mine at IHOP 290 as a waiter there.

---"I hope you never end up in prison, since you would never get out of there alive! The other inmates would identify you as a snitch, and they would target you for retaliatory punishment!" --- Jed Cecil, then-general manager of mine at the IHOP 290 ACG-franchise-owned IHOP chain restaurant near Interstate Highway 35 in north Central Austin, in a very surprising comment he made to me during a workshift of mine in 2010 or 2011 that probably occurred in response to one of my dozens of conscientious factual reports I had made to him over a multi-month time period about cited possible alleged impropriety by a coworker of mine at IHOP 290 restaurant.

----"You are a nut, but you do what your manager tells you to do. You would never have gotten re-hired by IHOP in the Austin area, since none of the general managers in my entire district were willing to work with you. The only exception to that was Jed Cecil at IHOP 290 in Austin, and he had major concerns about you. I had to beg him to give you a chance at IHOP 290!" --- Jason Kein, then the area director for ACG Inc., a franchise of IHOP chain restaurants that is itself headquartered in the Dallas area.

---"You're a very likeable person. As for whether you are lovable, that is outside of my area of expertise." ---- former Stephen F. Austin High schoolmate Bill Leach, during a friendly local telephone conversation I had with that personal friend of mine earlier this 21st Century.

---"I think about you not at all." --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, during a local phone call I made to his Austin-area home earlier this 21st Century.

---"It is very unlikely that anyone other than yourself has been inside your bolt-locked bedroom of your bolt-locked Wind River Crossing Apartments rental unit during your bedtime hours. I recommend that you proceed accordingly and focus on other matters instead" (approximate quote).---Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brtoher and a professional real-estate surveyor, during a 2013 phone call I made to him from my northwest Austin apartment unit.

---"If I ever win the state lottery here in Texas, I will give you a tiny percentage, such as one percent or one-half-percent, of what I myself win from that" (approximate quote). --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biolotgical brother, in a 21st Century comment he volunteered to me on the telephone during a phone call I made to him from my rental apartment unit in Austin, Texas.

---"Since you have not enjoyed any of the gay persons you have ever met in your life, I have signed a legal agreeent on your behalf that requires you to live with a heterosexual woman."---Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, duringa a 1995 local phone cvall I made to him in Austin, Texas, shortly before I moved to Baytown, Texas, to begin a full-time newspaper reporing job for the "Baytown Sun" general-circulation daily newspaper.

---"You are doing it all wrong." --- Arthur Rauch, a study-skills instructor for the University of Texas at Austin, in an emphatic comment he volunteered to me in person on at least three separate occasions in evaluating my own law-abiding conduct as a human being, this dring strictly-platonic and very minimal leisuretime meetings that I had with Mr. Rauch in restaurants of Austin, Texas, in the 1980s.

---"Sara and I like you, but we do not love you." --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, during a late 1990s or early 21st Century local phone call I made to that married couple's Austin-area home from an apartment unit I rented near the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

---"I am not aware of any conflict of any type between yourself and any member of the Temple Berth Israel Congregation that I represent here in Austin, and I say that partly because you do not reside near our synagogue these days." ---- Attorney Leon Barish, President of the Temple Beth Israel Reform Judaism religious congregation near UT-Austin, during a one-to-one legal-consultation meeting I had with him in the early 21st Century inside his law office along West Sixth Street in central Austin.

---"You can stay in Austin as many years as you like, for all the good it would do you. You can never develop a social life in Austin. I know how Austin is." -- Richard Goldsmith, during a phone call I made to him from my apartment unit near UT-Austin in the late 1990s or early 21st Century. The gentlemanly Richard Goldsmith, a married man, is a former work supervisor of mine who served as my news editor during the period of 1988-1989 when I worked full-time as a reporter for the "El Campo (TX) Leader-News" general-circulation newspaper in El Campo, Texas.

---"I would like to disembowel you!" --- Professor Misha Penn, a self-identified Orthodox Jewish gentleman and married man who served as my instructor in an anthropology course in which I was enrolled as a student during the summer of 1983 on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Professor Penn made that surprisingly unsolicited comment directed specifically at me, much to my surprise, one day in the middle of a class session that I had attended that day. Professor Penn's comment sparked immediate laughter from the other students in our anthropology class.

----"I realize that you try very hard, John. In fact, you are the most trying person I have ever met!"---then-schoolmate Bill Leach, during a 1970s phone conversation I had with him when each of us were attending Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas.

----"You are potentially likeable." --- Dr. Michael McMillan, my biological older brother, in an E-mail letter he wrote me and sent to me earlier this 21st Century from his private residence in Los Angeles County, California.

---"Your challenge in Austin, Texas, is to make the transition from your current status as a dislikeable eccentric to eventually becoming a likeable eccentric. That would be a good long-term goal for you, it seems to me." --- Kent Neal McMillan, my biological oldest brother, during a late 1990s local phone conversation I had with him from my apartment unit situated a few blocks from the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

---"Can you blame the gay community for trying to harm you?" --- Sona Spear Nast, a former classmate of mine at Stephen F. Austin High School, in a question she posed to me after she initiated a conversation with me in the early 21st Century at a class reunion get-together inside the "North by Northwest" restaurant in northwest Austin. Sona posed that question to me immediately after I informed her that I had given televised speeches in Austin on behalf of my own one-member and non-Christian Progressive Prohibitionist Religion in which I had urged the government-ordered permanent closing of any and all commercial sex parlors in Austin, including any and all of the so-called "gay bathhouses" of Austin.

---"Your many comments to me about your being a self-identified victim of crime in Austin, Texas, reveal a lack of imagination on your part." --- Kent Neal McMillan, my biological oldest brother, during a local phone call I made in the late 1990s to his and his wife's Austin-area home from my rental apartment unit a few blocks from the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

---"You are being victimized by crime in Austin, Texas, on a frequent and year-round basis!"---Cousin Jim Dane, a kindly farmer and married man residing near Iowa City, Iowa, during a late 1990s long-distance phone call I made to his family's farm from my rental apartment unit situated a few blocks from the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

---"I hope that my son (Valerio Caldesi Valeri) has not poisoned you!" --- the self-identified biological mother of my male adult roommate at Viewpoint Apartments, "Valerio Caldesi Valeri" his self-identified name, who was himself a self-identified citizen of Italy and Classics scholar holding a teaching position in the UT-Austin Classics Department during that approximate time period during or shortly after the year 2000 on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The woman and biological mother who made that unsolicited comment to me in late 2000 over dinner inside the Macaroni Grill chain restaurant near the Arboretum in northwest Austin was herself a self-identified visitor to Austin from Italy at the time of that four-person outing in which she and her husband, the president of a bank in Italy, and their gentlemanly son Valerio all accompanied me for an Italian-style meal inside the Macaroni Grill chain restaurant in Austin. The reference to "poison" by Valerio's mother was very surprising, and did not appear to have any context to it.

---"I cannot imagine you ever going to the restroom without devoting an hour to analyzing the manure you had left in the toilet!"---an apparently kindly male adult professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, during a two-person meeting I had with him in 1984 or 1983 on the campus of that State of Minnesota-owned university.

---"I'm surprised to learn from this phone call you made to me today that you are still alive. I had just assumed that you contracted AIDS and were dead by now!" --- Dr. Susan Reynolds Herrington, a kindly medical doctor and former classmate of mine at Washington University in St. Louis, during an early 21st Century long-distance phone call I made at my own expense to her St. Louis-area private residence from my rental apartment unit near the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

---"You never annoy me, John. You don't have enough emotional effect on me to ever annoy me. You often irk me, but you don't ever annoy me." --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, during a 1986 phone call I made to his and his wife's home in south Austin from my parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas.

---"If you ever do get organized, you would be dangerous!" --- Dave Bernard, my news editor at "The (New Ulm, Minn.) Journal" daily newspaper in New Ulm, Minnesota, during an unsolicited in-person evaluation of me in 1980 or 1981 by Dave Bernard inside the newsroom of our general-circulation daily newspaper in southwestern Minnesota.

---"Eric Schwarz (a former coworker of mine in the newsroom of the 'Patriot Ledger' daily newspaper in Quincy, Mass.) hates your guts!" --- a bespectacled tall and slender Anglo male reporter for the "Patriot Ledger" daily newspaper, Jason Seiken, in a very emphatic oral disclosure that Jason made to me in person in downtown Quincy in 1986 or 1987.

---"Kathy Cabble(then a photographer reportedly employed at the St. Petersburg (FLA.) Times and Independent daily newspaper in western Florida, and a former coworker of mine at the 'Daily Texan' student newspaper on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin) really despises you, John!" -- Lynne Dobson, a friendly high-ranking executive of the Whataburger restaurant chain headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, during a 1988 unsolicited disclosure to me on the telephone that Ms. Dobson very courageously made to me in a local phone call I made to Ms. Dobson's home from a pay telephone near the UT-Austin campus in Austin, Texas.

---"Your parents will not be around much longer, and after they pass away at some future point, I won't be able to offer you any financial help. At that point, you are at dire risk of turning into a ward of the State Government of Texas." --- Kent Neal McMillan, an unsolicited January 1996 warning he verbalized to me on the telephone during a period in which I resided in Baytown, Texas, as a full-time sports reporter for "The Baytown Sun" general-circulation daily newspaper, and I had just accepted a position as a full-time editor and reporter for "The Denver City (TX) Press" general-circulation newspaper in Denver City, Texas.

---"You have sponged off your parents for years, and you are a loafer." --- Kent Neal McMillan, in a late 1990s or early 21st Century comment to me on the telephone during a local phone call I made to his and his wife's Austin-area home from my rental apartment unit situated a few blocks from the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

---"You always were a pest during your childhood."---Kent Neal McMillan, in a 1994 comment that my oldest biological brother made to me on the telephone during a long-distance phone call I made to his and his wife's Austin-area home from my "Snyder Daily News" daily newspaper workplace in Snyder, Texas.

---"Howard Goldberg has a low estimation of you." -- Kent Neal McMilan, in a 1990 or 1991 observation that my biological oldest brother made to me on the telephone during a long-distance phone call I made to Kent and his wife's Austin-area home.

---"Howard Goldberg seems to be changing his mind about whether he is willing to let you live in Texas for the rest of your life. He seems to be more accepting of that outcome for you than he previously was." --- Kent Neal McMillan, in an unsolicited disclosure about a cited northeastern U.S. male adult person that Kent verbalized to me in the middle of a summer of 1991 long-distance phone call I had made to his and his wife's Austin-area home from the rental home in Cuero, Texas, where I was residing during a period in which I reported full-time as a bureau reporter for the "Victoria (TX) Advocate" general-circulation daily newspaper.

---"I don't want to have ANYTHING to do with you!...Don't ever call me again!" --- Julie McMillan Lechtenberger, my biological younger sister, during a long-distance 2013 phone call I made to her Houston-area home from my northwest Austin rental apartment unit, a phone call in which I politely provided my only biological sister with factual details about alleged personal injury crimes and alleged sex crimes allegedly victimizing me inside my bolt-locked northwest Austin apartment unit where I was living alone during that particular time period.

More Observations on American Society of Today

Ours is a nation with a dire need for a televised speech from our head of state in which he urges everyone in this entire country to ALWAYS pursue a law-abiding and civil response to every challenge or conflict they experience in their own life.

Americans of today subscribe to the view that they should write their autobiography at age 25 in the form of a series of gaudy and obscene confessional tattoos that they have emblazoned on their own body. "Whatever I did, I did obscenely and in a very public manner!" Americans of today might as well declare to the entire world.

For all the public speeches that United States President Obama has delivered in recent years, a nationally televised speech in which he cites 10 solid factual reasons for NEVER consuming ANY cocaine is the one address that he never offers the American public. And that very nationally televised speech from our nation's head of state would save more American lives than any other speech that Mr. Obama could ever give.

The majority of Americans under age 30 exhibit a baffling contempt toward the traditional English handshake, favoring instead the hyper-dramatic "High-Five", as it is called. The High-Five, unlike the English handshake, suggests that American young people are eternally eager to slap each other in the guise of expressing a "friendly" affinity for their cited "brother" or "sister."

Americans under age 30 are eternally eager to reveal any and all tattoos emblazoned beaneath their own waistline to first-time acquaintances who inquire about those cited points of pride on their own body.

Americans who are victimized by continuous personal-injury crimes on a daily and year-round and multi-year basis have the consolation these days that if they write extensively about those crimes in E-mail letters to friends or government officials, at least the President of the United States is certainly very familiar with that continuous-crimes case and might, at some point, actually ask the FBI to come to the rescue.

If you ask an American of today to please tell you which U.S. state has contributed the most toward conservation of fossil fuels and of natural resources in this nation, your listener would offer you a perplexed look on his face. "I know which U.S. state has the best college football teams, and that is all," the American would tell you in response.

OBSERVATIONS ON AMERICAN LIFE THESE DAYS

Ours is a nation with two classes of people: those who own debit cards and those who own credit cards.

Americans define losers as those who either don't own a cell phone or those who, if they own a celll phone, fail to declare in person to an acquaintance or friend at least 10 times per day: "Excuse me for interrupting our conversation, I have this urgent cell phone call I have to take right now."

Americans say they are interested in recyclicng of aluminum and paper products. But if you ask them whether they are interested in factual statistics about rapid depletion of American reserves of minerals and other natural resources  inside this country, they will ask you why you can't discuss a more cheerful topic?

Americans' failure to identify urban sprawl as a major political issue in U.S. Presidential campaigns reveals a sobering void in our national political dialogues.  Urban sprawl is very harmful to our environment and deprives our nation of millions of acres of valuable cropland and ranchland and forestland. Nowhere in America is there any municipality I'm aware of that greets visitors with a sign that proudly declares, "Welcome to America's Most Pedestrian-Friendly City!"

Americans profess to believe strongly in platonic love. But 90 pecent of the Hollywood movies they choose to watch are about non-platonic and flagrantly sexual lust.

Americans who agree to ride as passengers in an automobile in which the driver chats on a cell phone as he drives, are contributing to that societal problem. They are contributing to the problem by failing to complain to the driver, and by failing to also state to the driver that unless he discontinues those cell phone conversations immediately, they refuse to ride in his car with him.

Nearly all of the Americans who travel to Mexico complain about unsanitary conditions there. But virtually NONE of those same American visitors to Mexico ever donate money toward helping to establish a nationwide sewage system throughout Mexico or higher sanitary standards throughout Mexico.

Americans of today frequently complain about widespread illicit-drug-trafficking violence in Mexico. But few of those same Americans ever give a public speech in which they urge their fellow Americans to help stop drug-trafficking in Mexico by permanently discontinuing any and all consumption of marijuana in their own lifestyle.

Americans who complain about illicit-drug-related violence in Mexico overlook the sobering fact that Americans are indirectly sponsoring the civil-war-like conditions in Mexico through their own purchases of illicit drugs from our neighbor to the south. The financial profits that druglords in Mexico reap from American clients go toward those druglords' purchase of guns and ammunition that are then used inside Mexico to kill noble and courageous opponents of  illicit drug activities.


One of the best ways to stump an American is to ask him what he admries the most about his country's neighbor to the north, Canada. 
Some Americans will say they like the fact that commercial trade with Canada has increased in recent decades. Others will say they  are grateful for Canada's contributions to the sport of ice hockey. Still others will say that they are very glad that Canada has produced a heroic super-star singer for the 21st Century, Justin Bieber.  
If you ask for elaboration, though, you find that the American observer of Canada will beg to switch the subject. "Can't talk about Canada," the American will quickly comment with irritability in his voice and facial expression.

Americans who say they oppose abortion almost never add that they will gladly donate $100 toward providing safe and affordable vasectomy surgeries for American men that can spare thousands of American women from ever being subjected to an unwanted pregnancy by any of those men.

One of the keenest insights about the level of support for law and order in an American city can be found through a study of the facial expressions and demeanor of residents of that city whenever they hear a police car's siren blaring within 1,000 yards of themselves.
Many of those private citizens appear panic-stricken and very nervous and agitated or appear to be on the verge of  suddenly and very abruptly attempting to drive or run to a side street. Many of those same panick-stricken Americans may well be criminal persons fearful that their own criminal identity had somehow been "discovered" by the police.
"Have the police finally learned about the violent felony personal-injury crimes and sex crimes I commit on a daily basis in this city?" the panic-stricken citizens might as well be asking aloud to everyone around them in those very revealing "special moments" that say a lot about the mindset of an entire city.

Americans claim that their nation's economy is healthy whenever the unemployment rate is low.  Those same Americans fail to acknowledge that their nation's economy is inherently ill and diseased and weak if a significant percentage of the citizens of that nation are holding jobs in industries that are injurious to themselves and others.
The often-injurious industries include the tobacco industry; the tattooing industry; the marijuana industry; the gambling industry; the alcohol-production industry; the professional boxing industry; the gambling industry; organized crime; the heavy-metal rock music industry; the electric-guitar music industry; and the like.

Many Americans profess to deplore the barbarous cruelty of the Coliseum and Emperors of Ancient Rome. But few of those same Americans protest when they sit in a football stadium and witness yet another college football player or professional football player grimacing in pain fronm an injury on the football field after he sustained a major injury in the middle of a game. And only a tiny percentage of Americans protest when they witness boxers bloodying each other during a televised boxing match in the United STates.