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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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You Have To Beat Darwin Every Day
There are Darwin Awards out there – and you have to win every time you’re in a spot to get a Darwin. (The Darwin awards are in recognition of removing oneself from the gene pool by one’s own foolish actions) Darwin, like Malthus, only needs to be right once. Winning means not getting a Darwin Read more
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Computer Repair by Mussolini
My cat decided my laptop needed to be kicked to the floor. Everyone who has a cat has experienced it – the cat jumps to a flat surface, and makes the decision that whatever is there needs to be pushed to the floor. While cats have a tendency to land on their feet, laptop computers Read more
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Getting Alberta Oil to Market
I saw this map on Small Dead Animals (when you’re this close to the border, following Canadian blogs makes sense): The map suggests that the challenges involved in holding Canada together may be greater than I had realized. Saskatchewan is looking at a similar route to get their fertilizer to the Pacific – though that Read more
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Parties On Economics
This Gallup poll had a simple question – do you have a positive or negative image of socialism, then the same on capitalism. The graphs may explain some of our differences: I can’t help remembering that Karl Marx was more a critical student of capitalism than socialism as I look at these graphs. Thing is, Read more
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Thus Spake Zarathustra – One More Time
I’ve never before been tempted to steal a title from Nietzsche – but the furor in Minnesota, the street riots in Iran, the raid in Venezuela, and who knows what else may occur before I post this. It applies more to the rioting in Iran – Zarathustra founded Zoroastrianism – the Persian religion before Arab Read more
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Suspenders
I’m wearing suspenders. Most of the loggers I’ve known slur the word so it comes out ‘spenders.’ I got ’em because of this last hernia surgery – doctor’s orders were to wear something loose around the middle, so I got out my old fat pants and bought a pair of suspenders. I have 5 more Read more
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