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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Itching Feet and Recovey
My right foot went through two days of itching. The last time I felt itchy feet was 2009 – before the heavy metals of chemotherapy knocked out my nerves. I think this is the story that Rick Holm wanted me to write – the experience of recovery from cancer and the treatments that beat it. Read more
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Stolen Joke
I ran across this tale on Ace of Spades – it was labeled The Saturday Night Joke, and I suspect Ace is worth checking every Saturday night: It’s an unusual time we’re living in. I took down my Rebel flag (which you can’t buy on EBAY anymore) and peeled the NRA sticker off my rear Read more
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I Believe in Scientific Method
I note the frequent comments of “believe in the science” or “the scientific facts.” The really great ones show validity with “most scientists believe . . .” as if consensus had an influence on causality. For much of my life I’ve made a living based around science in it’s several forms- sometimes research, sometimes applications, Read more
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Marksmanship and Murder
Jeff Asher, at FiveThirtyEight.com, has done some analysis on shootings and fatalities by city. The article’s title is “Why Are Shootings Deadlier In Some Cities Than Others?” and he subtitles it, “We need better data to find out.” That may be the case – but I have a bit of shooting experience, as well as Read more
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Covid and Obesity
I ran across an article with a bit more information on covid and its relationship with obesity. Now the Body Mass Index isn’t a perfect tool, designed for medical purposes. Quetelet developed the formula back in 1830 – a time when fractional powers weren’t readily in use, and he wasn’t a medical sort, more an Read more
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The Army’s Timber Industry Union
It is difficult to look back at the old-timers in Trego and not realize how much influence the International Workers of the World (IWW – the wobblies) had on the area. In the early sixties, terms like “the Wobbly Johnson place” still were part of the directions. The old airport wasn’t recognizable as an airport Read more
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