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Guest posts There are a couple of guest posts in the queue, and more would be welcome. Since our readership is, by definition, highly intelligent, perceptive, and learned anything they…
Hot News Saturday: Worst Science Fiction, Sheffield Devolves, Sainted Liberals
Great News! Buck Alice and the Actor Robot will soon appear as a radio drama. This is not to be missed! The Colonial Radio Theater will produce Walter Koenig's---Chekov, from…
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There Are No Left-Handed Catchers, Pitchers Are Tall: Baseball Biometrics
No Major League team employs, on its active 25-man roster, a left-handed throwing catcher. About 9 percent of people are lefties, and 63 men in baseball are listed as catchers,…
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Easter Egg Hunt
Hidden in this post is an Easter Egg. Easter it is, of course; and so the egg's theme is appropriate for this day. It's not the most cleverly designed puzzle.…
Top 10 Manly Jobs: Popular Mechanics’ Cool Gigs List
Popular Mechanics published a list of four dozen or so "Coolest Gigs on Earth." They ought to have said "manliest." This isn't The Atlantic or Time. This is Popular Mechanics!…
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Obamacare & Climate Change: Temperature, Health Targets
There it was, hidden on page 1,323 of the 2,700-page health care bill: a proposal to define the ideal climate for the Continental United States and Alaska. For no reason…
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Amish Romance Meets Teen Vampire Fiction
In a Books-A-Million in Lakeland, Florida I happened down an entire row, yards and yards long, of Amish Romances, a genre I had heard of but scarcely believed existed. Each…
Use of Deadly Force Authorized Against Renegade Sea Lions
The deadliest force known to man---The Law of Unintended Consequences---has struck again. This time it has led to the deliberate slaughter of sea lions by armed agents of the U.S.…