Monthly Archives: April 2008

Hypernutty

With gas prices rising with no end in sight, people are looking for ways to increase their mileage. In an article on techniques drivers are using to get farther on a tank of fuel (termed “hypermiling”), we come upon this: … Continue reading

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Brilliant

The devoted reader of this blog will remember that its proprietor voted for Hillary Clinton in the DC primary. What the reader could not know (unless you know me personally) is that I declared Hillary Clinton toast soon after Super … Continue reading

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Talk

Here’s what I’m thinking tonight: People talk a lot. People talk about things they don’t know much about. People prefer talking to not talking. People start sentences before they know where they’re going to end. People assume other people are … Continue reading

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Shortstops

Ever since Willie Mays hauled down that drive off the bat of Vic Wertz in the ’54 World Series, running full-tilt with his back to the plate, I’ve had queasy feelings about the San Francisco Giants. It doesn’t matter that … Continue reading

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Taner

As they have been doing for almost a century, Armenians around the world today commemorated the genocide carried out by the Ottoman government under the cover of World War I. In Moscow cars with Armenian flags drove in a column … Continue reading

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YoKO’d

It’s one thing to be slipshod and sleazy in your depiction of evolutionary science and how it is taught in American schools. You might bore the pants off the general public and piss off a lot of scientists, but you … Continue reading

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