Monthly Archives: August 2006

Cool Toys – or, what the heck is an atalatl?

I had an email exchange with a friend about my Celebrity Roast post last night. Briefly, it started with a question “Why do you bother with that garbage?” Fair question. I did turn it off after ten minutes, but there … Continue reading

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Have you ever kippled?

Note: See my post on Ilana Mercer’s blog http://www.ilanamercer.com/ under Solomonic State Censors Speech. I post fairly frequently there. “Do you like Kipling?”“I don’t know, I’ve never kippled.” John Derbyshire has a column on poetry at National Review Online here … Continue reading

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Alright, everybody else has commented, so…

So the confessed killer of JonBenet Ramsey is just another twitchy pedophile wanting his fifteen minutes after all. It’s not like we all didn’t see it coming, the networks said from the beginning that the details of his “confession” didn’t … Continue reading

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I love the computer age! I hate computers!

Remember back in the days of huge mainframes and punched cards how we thought that computers were going to be the driving engine of Big Brother’s all-powerful police state? How they were going to dehumanize us and make us more … Continue reading

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Shatner Roast

Celebrity Roast: Last night while channel surfing I came across a celebrity roast for William Shatner and as an old Star Trek fan couldn’t resist. I should have. It occurs to me that I haven’t actually seen many celebrity roasts, … Continue reading

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I recently reminded a very old friend that it was rude and inconsiderate to stuff every acquaintance’s mailbox with six to eight posts per day. If you have that much to say – start a blog. It occurred to me … Continue reading

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