The Odd and Miscellaneous


Bad Temper

I hate being awakened from a nap, too, but…

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BBC Headline Writers Tip Their Hands….

The headline on the BBC site says “Shuttle Crew Sees Damaged Earth.” But there’s no mention of a “Damaged Earth” in the article, which is about the the shuttle’s damaged…

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BBC Headline Writers Tip Their Hands….

The headline on the BBC site says “Shuttle Crew Sees Damaged Earth.” But there’s no mention of a “Damaged Earth” in the article, which is about the the shuttle’s damaged…

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Some Good News

According to an article in the Washington Post, there has been a major breakthrough in the reading of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and the Herculaneum scrolls, two of the great treasure…

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It’s a Fine Thing for a Chicken to Cross the Road

Who Pays the Bill? The laws of the state of California are no laughing matter, damn it!

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It’s a Fine Thing for a Chicken to Cross the Road

Who Pays the Bill? The laws of the state of California are no laughing matter, damn it!

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It’s a Fine Thing for a Chicken to Cross the Road

Who Pays the Bill? The laws of the state of California are no laughing matter, damn it!

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It’s a Fine Thing for a Chicken to Cross the Road

Who Pays the Bill? The laws of the state of California are no laughing matter, damn it!

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On Strike Against Solidarity!

The French government, responding to the fact that two years ago French people let approximately 15,000 mainly elderly people die in their homes of heat exhaustion (many because they didn’t…

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Brain Chemistry

I take coffee in the morning to start my day (and without it I’m pretty miserable, not that I’m “addicted,” or anything, since I could quit anytime….I just haven’t chosen…

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