Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Foundation, Empire, and Pennsylvania

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If you like alternate history, there's more here . The Central State's flag above, and the American flag below, with the lions...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

New Names for Subtle Emotional States

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Linderungzorn: "relief anger" - the sensation of finally doing something you've been putting off and stressing about forever...
Friday, February 15, 2019

"The Quixotic Single-Mindedness of the Live-Action-Role-Playing Russophile"

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What a great piece this is, about a gathering of (very) left-of-center political activists . It sounds like a glorious mess, and I'm qu...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

The Most Haunting, Literature-Like Discussion Section Comment In History

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From a Lonely Planet discussion page as I'm trying to figure out how to get from Big Bend to Chihuahua without a rental car: I've...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Making the Outdoors into a Status Game: Humans Are Weird, Volume # 178,822,941

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Cross-posted to MDK10 Outside . A friend of mine had lived in Philadelphia and Atlanta, and then moved to Olympia, Washington. She immed...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

The Debatable Lands

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Of all the cool-sounding names given in fantasy and reality to rough parts of the world (the Bad Lands, Broken Lands, the Burning Lands, etc...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

The War on Terroir

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FINALLY, people are starting to avail themselves of the pun opportunities given the similarity of terror and terroir . I for one have long ...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Anarchist Conference Devolves Into Chaos (Not from the Onion)

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Story, such as it is, found here . I wonder if anyone asked "I thought we were an autonomous collective?"
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

What Do the Patterns in Alternate Histories Say About Us?

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For the most recent alternate history (a Buddhist Colony in Ptolemy's Alexandria) go here. This post is also cross-posted to my specul...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Statement On Running for President.

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Such an idea never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any sane person. - Zachary Taylor, during the Mexican-American ...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Brent the Chimp, Untitled (Tongue-Painting)

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Who Among Us Would Not Say The Same

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Cross-posted from my outdoors and trail-running blog . An interesting short piece at Reason about Gary Johnson: One of the worst things y...
Monday, February 18, 2013

A New Fairy Tale

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In Hungeree, from the Rose Carnival in Cologne. What I love is that it's insulting to everyone involved, although the symbolic scheme...
Monday, March 12, 2012

The Most Literal Sense of Intrusive Government

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I try to keep this blog family friendly so you'll have to click through for someone with a very clear, concrete understanding of intrusi...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

"Delivery Service Fills Pot Hole"

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No, this is not a story about private services taking over road maintenance.
Friday, November 25, 2011

Is That Gravy...or ANTHRAX?

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"...when markets respond to the demands of Muslim consumers, freedom dies." - Adam Serwer at Mother Jones, on Pamela Geller'...
Monday, August 29, 2011

PSA: Bow Ties

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A colleague was kind enough to volunteer for his friends' bow-tie instructional video: How to Tie a Bow Tie from Keith Paugh on Vime...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Quote of the Day

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"How about a [holi]day named after a generic old person? They vote too, and this could be done while limiting the "doc fix" t...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Finally My Tragic Artistic Genius Has Been Recognized

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I entered a "freestanding art" piece in the UCSD grad student art show. There's no picture here, because there's no need....
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Brilliant Review of Joyce's Ulysses

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Ulysses is an overwrought, overwritten epic of gratingly obvious, self-congratulatory, show-off erudition that, with its overstuffed symboli...