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America In Decline: 10 Reasons You Should Start Studying Mandarin TODAY
A long time ago, I managed a Chinese restaurant for a couple of years, and found myself quickly adopted as a sort of Honorary Asian. I have to say, I honestly feel much more at ease with a lot of the...
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Too Big To Jail
If you want to commit a crime and get away with it, one way to do it is to make it an EPIC crime, surround yourself with lots of fall guys, and remain utterly unrepentant. Nixon understood this in the...
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If You Want to Make GOP Laugh, Tell it Your Plans
One thing I don’t think I’ve heard a Republican say since 1968 is “I don’t know if I like our guy. I think I’ll vote third party or just sit this one out.”
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What If You Never Had To Buy Insurance Again?
For a long time, I’ve said (among other things) that “buying insurance is like giving someone money to protect you from something that’ll never happen so that they can not protect you when it does.” A...
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NASA Budget vs Military Budget Infographic
I want to go to Mars. No. Really. When I was a kid, I was pretty sure I was going to be an astronaut or aerospace engineer. This was partly the result of seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey at the age of...
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A Fan of “Googie” and Retro Design? Help Fund the Beer Depot Sign Restoration
Over the last year and a half or so, I have somewhat quietly spearheaded a campaign to preserve a classic “Doo Wop” or “Googie” era sign in the town I live in; the iconic Beer Depot sign, which blew...
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Why Rational Debate About Gun Legislation is Probably Impossible
Careful Kid, You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out In the end, do you know who is going to win a debate about guns? The person with a gun. Which is too bad, because there’s no intelligence test required for...
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Is There a Link Between Antidepressants and Mass Shootings?
Do a Google search for phrases like “antidepressants and mass shootings”, and you’ll get page after page of results proclaiming the undeniable connection. But disappointingly, most of the results point...
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Is Rupert Sheldrake Crazy, or on the Cutting Edge of Science?
You’ve probably heard of the experiments in which a neurosurgeon touches a part of a subject’s brain with an electrode, and it triggers a vivid memory. A fascinating phenomenon, to be sure, but did you...
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Dissociated Press Says Goodbye
Don’t cry. We’ll be back. After almost five years of relentless blather on pop media, pop culture, politics, and technology, I’m retiring the site to prepare an all new, punchier, tablet-friendly site...
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