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Top 3 Books, and 1 Bottom One
Three top books In today's San Francisco Chronicle are reported the bestsellers from the previous week, both nationally and separately in San Francisco. This list sums up nicely the differences…
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No celebration over Californian budget cuts?
9pm Saturday: Sorry! I just found out that the Akismet spam filter, in conjunction with WP-Spamfree, treated every comment as spam. And deleted them forever! Without my having even seen…
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Traveling links
My turn to get patted down and scrutinized. I head back to the States today, after a long absence. I do not look forward to the flight. Here, to take…
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Health Care Ping Pong Party
From The Hill: House and Senate leaders have formally agreed to bypass a bicameral conference committee to merge two healthcare bills, and have opted to instead "ping-pong" the Senate bill…
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Most Visible Airport Security Rules Cannot Prevent Another Fruit-of-the-Loom Bomber
I sincerely hope that somebody doesn't think I am exposing any secrets. Each point below is obvious to anybody willing to spend five-minutes thought. I obviously have nothing to say…
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Definitions of Equality
Just definitions today, folks. We'll need them later. You'd think a lot of these would be obvious. Experience shows they are not. This article is solely about equality of outcomes…
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Results of Complete Prediction of 2009 NFL Season
Before the 2009 season began, I developed a very simple predictive1 model based solely on each NFL team's historical record. Here is what was said about the model: I used…
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Top 10 Spoof Movies of All Time!
The following list are classics, which are defined as movies you'd enjoy watching even when you wouldn't enjoy watching a movie. To qualify as a spoof, a movie must tease…