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Happy Easter!
Hidden in this post is an Easter egg of sorts. Searching for it will be easy for experts, difficult for puzzle novices. This is the kind of brain teaser easily…
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Finally Revealed: How Russia Rigged The Election
Finally Revealed: How Russia Rigged The Election: Shocking new details emerge. Early on the morning of 6 July 2016, in the heat of the election battle between the Hillary Clinton…
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Holy Matrimony!
Today is the wedding feast of my Number Two Son and his Beautiful Bride. Yeehaw! (This cheer originates from Texas.) Drinks are on me!
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Happy 3000th Post!
Happy 3000th Post! I know just how you feel. Like it's 30,000 posts. Still, I am glad you are here. But I have to ask: why are you here? If…
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Thoughts On One-Time Pads For Cell Phones
Best short description of one-time pads (OTPs) is from Jason Matthews, who is describing their use in the heyday of the cold war in the book Strangers on a Bridge…
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Elephant Sausage & The Closing Of The Circus—A Reader Comments
I received the following email about my article that animals do not have "rights" (cut and pasted directly, though I removed an spurious HTML character). Good afternoon, and just wanted…
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A Coincidence: Coyne Zinged Me Before I Him — Or, The Coyne Fallacy Redux
After posting yesterday's article, Jerry Coyne Doesn't Have Free Will (poor fellow), I immediately saw hits coming to my place from Coyne's. It turned out that, unbeknownst to me, the…
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Predictions For 2017—Register Yours Today!
Once more unto the breach! We did well last year, but we had the advantage of a neat unambiguous set of predictions all could make, i.e. the United States primaries…