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About Donating
I have received occasional requests---four, to be exact; plus a few unasked for, generous donations---to describe how readers can formally subscribe to the blog. There is, of course, no subscription,…
Men’s Fashion Advice: Pocket Squares
If you're wearing a jacket (and you should) that has a breast pocket, that pocket should be filled to overflowing with a pocket "square". The material of this object must…
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Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
This originally ran at Pajamas Media. Because of the recent article "Mao's Little Helpers" at Standpoint and a current review at American Spectator, I thought there would be interest in…
Posted inCulture
Hollywood: Stop Making Movies And Lower Your Carbon Footprint
Just last week British movie director Richard Curtis thought it would be jolly to simulate the brutal killing of children who did not fret sufficiently over global warming. In his…
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Thorium Instead Of Uranium: Solution To Our Energy Woes? Guest Post by James Mahaffey
About a month ago, an article appeared in the Telegraph entitled, "Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium." It's central claim was that, If Barack…
Food Wimpishness
My rate of dying is still above normal, but its delta-V, I am hoping sincerely, and thanks entirely to the medicinal properties of gins and tonics, is now negative. Late…
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Ulysses And Phenomenal Woman
We might call this the readable poetry project, or poetry typeset for maximum readability for those who, like me, suffer from the inability to profitably read words plastered on a…
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Director Explodes Children In Name of Environment; College Degrees Don’t Always Pay
The delta-V at which I am approaching death has increased because I was crammed into an aluminum tube with two hundred sneezing strangers who unburdened their diseases upon me, and…
