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I’m out of here

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Early tomorrow we’ll be leaving Connecticut for the Northern regions of Sweet New England, mainly the great state of Maine. We’ll be wending our way to Brunswick, seat of Bowdoin college, where we’ll be attending my 35th college reunion. Ah, those were the days. When I graduated, Richard Nixon was president, but it was beginning […]

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Curious

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

During my nightly newsreader lightning round I came across this post at Pharyngula, which linked to this post at a blog called Making Light. The ultimate subject is a blog, or former blog, called Embryoyo, only the name of which appears to have been original. The blog is no longer available for viewing, or wasn’t […]

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Bike Blogging

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Yesterday I started a bike ride in North Stonington and headed up Wyassup Road. To any of my readers who are bikers: Avoid Wyassup Road. It’s nice country but the road surface is extremely rough. It’s a bit like running through mud. It’s also rather depressing, since you can see that what was recently farm […]

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Obama slams McCain and Romney

Friday, May 25, 2007

This is all over the internets, but it’s good, and should be spread around. Democrats fighting back. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbParxfzXpk[/youtube]

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Olbermann

Thursday, May 24, 2007

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5QkxSIrPtw[/youtube]

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Doublespeak in Orwell’s backyard

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Sometimes it’s nice to know that there are people in other countries almost as looney as us. Here in the United States we specialize in legislating about science. If we don’t like the fact that we descended from apes, we try to solve the problem by passing a law that says that God did it. […]

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Last Word on Limbo

Monday, May 21, 2007
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Flower blogging

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Mainly to add a little color, a picture of one of my wife’s orchids, which she’s brought outside for the summer. (Click for a larger view)

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Political Science

Monday, May 14, 2007

When he’s not coining money writing relatively drecky stuff for the movies, Randy Newman is busy writing superb songs filled with wit and irony. I’ve been a fan since my long ago college days. For no reason in particular I present for your viewing pleasure this video (not really a song) I just found, in […]

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The few, the proud, the convicted

Sunday, May 13, 2007

We have a problem, as everyone knows, finding people to serve in the Armed Forces. A columnist in today’s Courant has the answer. Before the answer is revealed, however, he finds it necessary to libel every high school student and, by extension, every high school teacher in America: Military recruiters are wasting time and energy […]

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