Author Archives: Anton

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Charity finds that U.S. food aid for Africa hurts instead of helps. Oh dear, CARE has been taken over by evil selfish libertarians. What else could explain such a conclusion? What American accent do you have? I got Philadelphia on … Continue reading

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classifying is hard

I decided to rearrange my books by broad subject rather than by author. So far I have: biology, medicine, psychology computing mathematics, physics, chemistry language arts those included in this classification fiction history, geography, ecology, heraldry Does religion belong with … Continue reading

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pot is bad for your health after all

A woman volunteered to donate an organ to her mother, but mom’s pee tested positive for marijuana, so no go. I could understand disqualifying the disobedient from receiving an organ from the limited pool of dead strangers, but how does … Continue reading

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guess what i found today at the bookstore

In Area 51, do they study Grays’ anatomy?

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a higher grade of gibberish

Strange but true — People study for years to talk like this: Infant is status post initial ampicillin and gentamycin for rule out sepsis workup.

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O tempora, O mores!

I don’t suppose there’s any country where there wasn’t grumbling, when the French Republican system of measurement was proposed, that it is unnatural, lacking traditional measurement’s intimate link to human scale. And likewise I doubt there’s much agitation to go … Continue reading

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secret history

“Tooth and Claw”, a recent episode of Doctor Who, features the Koh-i-Noor, a famous diamond: but the shape is wrong, a classic Brilliant cut. The writer missed an opportunity to say that it has its present irregular shape because part … Continue reading

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