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Happy 1000th Post!
This is it! The nine-hundred-ninety-ninth-plus-one post! The post whose number is a pleasing and large (relatively speaking) power of ten! The post that pushes us over the top of the…
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Caught With My Pants Down
No, not like Andrew "Stuffed Shorts" Weiner. I mean literally, as in the picture below, taken while walking across the Manhattan Bridge. A guy on a bike, who I later…
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The Showman’s Courtship: Guest Post By Artemus Ward
Artemus Ward, who wrote this piece circa 1858, was a showman and writer who toured these great United States with his artistic exhibition, which consisted of "three moral Bares, a…
Parents Raising Child As ‘It’
When I first saw that the website with the story of parents raising "gender free" kids ended in ".ca", I thought for sure it came from California. But---Holy Saskatchewan---it's Canada!…
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Batman Arrested!
Batman---the Dark Knight himself----was found Wednesday night hanging by a thread from the roof of Meyer's Ace Hardware store in Harbor Springs, Michigan. The Petoskey News Review reports that Batman…
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Where There’s Smoke…
...there's fire. My computer evinced smoke this fine morning. You may infer the rest. Topic for open discussion: Advantages Of Backing Up Your Computer. Update New machine due Wednesday; posts…
A Citizen’s Top Style Choices
In a hurry this morning. The Wall Street Journal ran a long interview with tailor Ethan Newton who, we learn, is moving to Hong Kong. Mazel Tov to him. After…
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SETI Goes Deaf
The Allen Telescope Array run by SETI---Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence---has been forced into hibernation because of the lack of money (Mercury News story). The electronic ears will remain planted on…