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Planet Could Be ‘Unrecognizable’ By 2050: Doom Just Around The Corner
If you are in your 40s now, as yours truly is (am?), then by 2050 you and the rest of our cohort will be dead or in our 80s. If…
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Weekly Mail
I receive regularly a lot of red hot tips from regular readers, but as the week goes on they are often buried by newer mail. Thus I will try out…
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Boy Wrestler Refuses To Compete With Girl
We're all adults here, so I'm going to come right out and reveal my misogynistic thesis: men are better athletes than women, in the sense that if you pick any…
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Why Memes Are Stupid: The Short Version
In 1976, in his The Selfish Gene, a book which revealed that most of us are slaves to our genes, biologist Richard Dawkins "discovered" the meme which, in one definition,…
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Time Travel
I uncovered this photo of yours truly and one Robert E. Beamon Jr of (then) Chicago, Illinois. It was taken, with respect to our time, some twenty-eight years ago, in…
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Scientific American Proposes Socialism As Means To Eliminate Murder
The once great magazine Scientific American has actually had three lives. Around the turn of the last century and for many years after, there was a magazine called Scientific American,…
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Hats Are Back! Staring At Women’s Breasts Lowers Math Scores!
Fedoras For Fellas While watching an exquisite interpretation of the classic hose-in-the-face by one Curley "Babe" Howard on television, I inadvertently saw a commercial for the movie The Adjustment Bureau…
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CliffsNotes for CliffsNotes: Now With Even Less Reading!
If there's one thing that's wrong with this country, it's that our poor, overworked, not-nearly-pampered enough children have too much reading to do. Why, there's Twitter ("#lindsaylohan Hate when i…