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Assisted Twister
You’ve heard this saying: “If you don’t like the weather in (wherever you are), just wait five minutes and it’ll change!” This, my friends, is Fake News. I’ve lived in, or spent enough time in, enough states to get an idea what the weather is like: Oregon, Washington (State and DC), Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Florida (and Akumal, Mexico and Guangzho, Changsha, and Hong Kong in China). But I grew up in Kansas Kansas is the onlyRead More
The True Story of the Maximally Flaccid Pud and Your Tax Dollars at Work
Dick, Willy, Rod and Peter would like a word.
To Gilligan or Not to Gilligan
You know what’s wrong with kids these days? I’ll tell ya what’s wrong with kids these days! When I was a kid, everyone I knew was familiar with the aria “Votre toast je peux vous le rendre” from the opera Carmen, aka “The Toreador Song” (skip ahead to 1:12): No, we weren’t opera buffs. Bear with me a sec. Carmen is an unusual opera, given that its libretto was originally in French. Here are the original lyricsRead More