Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Sooth

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I considered selling my weapons “back” to the government, but after a background check and thorough investigation into the buyer, I determ...

My Winter Hobby

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Physicists Just Released Step-by-Step Instructions for Building a Wormhole
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

More Tales of the Post-Christian Age

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Missouri Councilwoman Takes Oath on Dr. Seuss Book
Monday, September 2, 2019

Sorry, Cincinnati Reds Fans, but No Hats for You

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Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Stop Wearing Red Hats, It’s Scary I’m spending more and more time off-line, mainly because the online world attr...

Idiot Wind

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Elementary school yanks ‘Harry Potter’ over claims it contains ‘actual curses and spells’ By all means, censor the only books young people...

Nature > Experiments in Generating Inadequate Amounts of Energy

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Maryland denies permit, blocking Georgetown-sponsored solar farm that would clear Charles County forest No one ever mentions the remarkabl...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

“Wait until you see what it does to the waves....”

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For the First Time in 360 Years, True and Magnetic North Will Align in the U.K.
Friday, August 30, 2019

Perry Hedison

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"Everything you know is wrong." Most people I know had, somewhere between Kindergarten and the defense of their dissert...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Thursday's Place: Christian's Hut

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In chaos, there is opportunity. A movie company once rented a parish hall of mine.  It was in the middle of nowhere but, as they we...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

More Tales of the Post-Christian Age

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Greta Thunberg’s yacht, the Malizia II, has delivered her to the UN climate conference in New York – two weeks after she first set sail from...

Authors on Deadline Sometimes Take Shortcuts

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10 Writers Who Stole Their Greatest Works From Other Authors

White Nationalist = Anyone Who Disagrees with an Ideologue

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It’s beginning to appear that “white nationalist” is replacing “fascist” as the slur du jour. For most of its length, Marissa Brostoff’s W...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

I Wish the Network News and TimesPost Were Interested in This

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But, a lot of their revenue comes from Chinese businesses, which is to say the Chinese government (you know, that whole Communism deal...). ...

Man of the People Update

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His political party has been telling me that coastal islands will all be underwater in twelve ten years due to global cooling warming cli...
Monday, August 26, 2019

So Die, Poor People. You Know, for the Good of the Environment.

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More poor people are eating meat around the world. That means they will live longer, healthier lives, but it is bad news for the environme...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

The Complete List of Friday Biographies

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The Friday biographies including those of whom you've heard, those of whom you've never heard, and those who have been known...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Doc Pomus

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"I didn't want to be "The Crippled Songwriter" or "The Crippled Singer".  I wanted to be the singer or the ...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Thursday's Place: The Souks of Marrakesh

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  I was with Aziz when three men wearing djellaba and carrying traditional native instruments approached us, twisting their heads to tw...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

The Contemporary and Hip New Religion of Miserabilism

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The Buzzfeed title for the piece is typical for the site: “15 Surreal Portraits Of A Slowly Fading American Dream.” First of all, they’re ...

Meanwhile, in the Rest of the World...

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It's much simpler and easier to base the front page of a newspaper or the lead stories on the network news on some variation of the Trum...