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Category Archives: Social Commentary
There Is So Much I Could Write About This Subject
What criteria should you use to put books on your bookshelves?
So much to write, so little time. The same problem with reading the books on my bookshelf.
But for now, I will say that Ezra Klein is a pompous, pretentious ass. “Poseur” is too kind a word for him. Not that this is the only evidence of this, of course…
Men Are Different Than Women
If they weren’t, this joke wouldn’t be funny.
Blogging The Chicago Auto Show
…as only Iowahawk can.
Face(book) Value
Jay Garmon dissects a dumb statistical correlation between SAT scores and “favorite” SF&F books. I found it interesting that there were no works by Neil Stephenson on the chart.
One Toke Over The Line
Willie Nelson comes out as a Truther.
Humans, Chimps…
…and property rights. Some thoughts on the beginning of commerce and trade from Donald Sensing.
First African American Presidential Candidate from a Major Party?
Thomas Jefferson and the other major party candidates for the election of 1800. Washington didn’t approve of political parties. At least according to my read of the census definition:
A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa….
My understanding of current thinking on evolution is that we all have origins in Black racial groups of Africa. And that this is our only origin in a period spanning tens of thousands to millions of years.
Ay Carumba
Nancy Cartwright gave ten megabucks to the Church of Scientology. P. T. Barnum had nothing on L. Ron Hubbard.
Like cocaine, this is life’s way of telling you that you make too damn much money.
Social Security Giveth, IRS Taketh Away
Social security is trying give out debit cards instead of checks while IRS is moving to ban refund loans. I guess the IRS subscribes to the ostrich theory of micro financing: out of sight, out of their minds.