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Showing posts with label Entropy enhancement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entropy enhancement. Show all posts
Jul 15, 2014

James. Clean Up Your Room RIGHT NOW

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.. .and do a good job! The threatened punishment for outright disobedience or a slap-dash effort was severe and credible. "Or I won...
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Oct 13, 2013

Enduring the gun show loophole

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It's hard to be bored at a gun show. but we're managing it. Maybe the fine weather is keeping people outdoors. Maybe the promoter di...
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Oct 9, 2013

Jim Chee, policy analyst

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You don't go to Tony Hillerman's Sgt. Jim Chee for your political insights, at least not on purpose. So it's fun when you just h...
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Sep 9, 2013

Say, Tipper, is that the ice man I hear coming?

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Or, There Goes the Northwest Passage Again as the Arctic freezes over in blatant defiance of the wishes of former Vice President Gore and...
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Aug 23, 2013

The Bastard King of Handguns*

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It was time for a chore, pawing through the parts inventory of a deceased friend. Little on the planet will humiliate a man more. You amble ...
Feb 10, 2013

Storm Nemo and the Runway Set

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A diminutive and lovely American woman in a smart Connecticut home sat out Nemo with her elderly parents. Among other things she waded throu...
Jun 6, 2012

Dagnabbit it all anyhow

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With the libertarian roof job all but done, I had planned to spend the afternoon playing in the reloading shack -- maybe cooking up a new .4...
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Apr 19, 2012

Working at the outermost boundaries of human thought...

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I first heard that phrase decades ago from the lips of Kingman Brewster, president of  Yale. I was a a working-stiff reporter, and Connectic...
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Feb 29, 2012

The case of the runaway hoplophobes

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"Those guns are scary, aren't they, Fauntleroy? We must  run and hide." Thus spake one Iowa Democrat house member to another...
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Oct 28, 2011

ALERT! Emergency Grips Nation; Senators Vow Action

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The Big 12 crisis escalated sharply this week when Louisvile (a Kentucky school of sorts) became suspected of sabotaging University of West ...
Oct 23, 2011

The lesson of the standing willow

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When a comely lady  distracts you as you install a fresh chain on your Stihl, you might might put it on backwards. You will discover this wh...
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Jul 7, 2011

Into the lutefisk jungle

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I face the future with fear, not for Camp J which will be under the care of an armed house-sitter whose only failings are a short temper, a ...
May 9, 2011

...and the crick don't rise

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Rivers are libertarians. The can be temporarily coerced in relatively small ways, but, in the end,  they will obey no laws but the laws of p...
Sep 1, 2010

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The Council on Foreign Relations has been a target of the Three-Neuron Right for decades. It's seen as an enclave of uberintellectuals ...
May 16, 2010

Is this a trick question?

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"What is the ticket price for an Atlanta to Las Vegas flight?" Sounds simple enough for a top travel writer to answer, but n...
Feb 9, 2010

Frank Magid, RIP

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We should note the passing of Frank Magid, the Iowa "consultant" almost single-handedly responsible for the demise of journalism o...
Feb 8, 2010

Jocko's Doc

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(sigh) We could save a lot of ink and air time and general exasperation among the literate classes by suspending the relevant Constitutional...
Jan 19, 2010

At least my heart cockles are warmer.

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The United Nations may soon issue a correction that could, but probably won't, tone down a little of the caterwauling about global war...
Dec 31, 2009

The CIA

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My sympathy for the bereaved families is as sincere as humanly possible. And so is my feeling that things just took a sharp turn for the wor...
Nov 26, 2009

Inscrutable my butt

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News flash! China breathlessly announces it will go along with the climate gag and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 or 45 per cent in t...