Author Archives: Anton

fossils

Found in the archives (1999 Jul 15): What might be the biggest event of our time of which the only surviving evidence, a thousand years from now, will be indirect allusions rather than direct records? For example: the life of … Continue reading

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the Red Book of Okefenokee

Found in the archives: my cast list for Walt Kelly’s production of LotR: Porky Pine as Frodo Albert as Aragorn Deacon Mushrat as Gandalf Bewitched, Bothered and Bemildred as Sam, Merry and Pippin Hepzibah as Arwen Miz Beaver as Eowyn … Continue reading

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annoying a cop is always a crime

Ananova – Man arrested over police chief sex call An Ohio man accused of dialling a sex chat line says he ended up talking dirty to a police chief because he misdialled. . . . Mullen’s roommate claims he was trying to … Continue reading

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stoner’s dilemma

What do you do if you love (or need) marijuana brownies and go on an Atkins diet?

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an intimate look at a girl’s best friend

Each atom in a diamond crystal is bonded to four neighbors. Games of go played on such a lattice ought to be similar in some ways to games played on a standard board – unlike on a board tiled with … Continue reading

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trade globally, govern locally

“Remaking the World in Our Image: Interventionist Globalism vs. Libertarian Localism,” by Lee McCracken. (From Rational Review again.)

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nature vindicated

Remember those gymnasts whose nudity has done so much for my hit-counts? (Search strings leading here in recent weeks include an amazing number of variations of “romanian gymnast(ic)(s) women nude naked dvd japan tokyo chiba”.) Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu says … Continue reading

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