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click to embiggen I hope everyone is enjoying ‘nothing time’; that span of time from Christmas to the first working day in the new year. It’s nothing time because pretty much nothing gets done. There...
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Terms of Service and Shrugging
The other day at Ace of Spades, Buck Throckmorton had what I think is an excellent idea, and I note that John Hinderaker at PowerLine (and others) have picked up on it. If Monster Tech can aggressively...
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Random Friday Observations
A special treat today since I find I have absolutely nothing I want to say, but Audre, what a wonderful person she is, has several drafts. I doubt she will mind, and this one also says something that...
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That Reminds Me
This caught my eye on Audre’s post yesterday. Audre commented: I can’t, right now, read the articles on TCW – they are so unrelentingly political; if it weren’t for Margaret, there’d be no breath of...
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Press On; An American Story
Many of you know that my frustrated childhood dream was flying an American bomber. The reasons it didn’t happen are fairly numerous and unimportant at this point. But there were reasons for that dream....
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What Hath Government Wrought
Hardy cyclist David Joel cycling on a frozen Thames near Windsor Bridge in London during the 1947 cold snap Writing in Master Resource, Robert Bradley Jr noticed a recurring theme, and we should learn...
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Durable Jobs
Something we’ve talked about here since almost the beginning of the blog, as we’ll point out later. But we’re going to keep on till people start understanding. One who does is Paula Boyard writing on...
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The Antonym of Snowflake
Well, we’ve been pretty depressing this week, and especially since that’s reality. But it’s not all of reality. like Audre, I watch some of these young people around the world on YouTube giving their...
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Big Brother
I don’t use any of this stuff. It always felt ‘not right’ to me. It sounds really cool and “Jetson’s-ish” to speak to an inanimate object and have it react to you but somethin’ ain’t right, y’all....
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Random Observations
Ok – I’m woke and that’s no joke. I’m at least vaguely aware – like ‘woke-light’, I guess. I am in such desperate need of Christmas I can’t even joke about it. (See what I did there?) Netflix has a...
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Random Observations
Jurassic Park notwithstanding, watch this fascinating story of an extinct plant brought back. This is flippin’ brilliant! The Scrummy people are at it again. Their imagination is amazing. You could...
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We Must Make Today‘Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day’?
I picked this up from R.S. McCain, and that decided the timing, sometimes I’m a team player, but that doesn’t matter. The Ricochet article he links below, I had already read earlier this week, thanks...
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Of Slide Rules and the American Wat
I commented last Friday that I would give quite a lot to go back to the world I came up in. It’s true, although there are many things, like the good half of the internet, I’d miss dearly. One of the...
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A Bit of American Military History
It’s Monday again and I’m not in the mood to dig into all the filth of politics this morning, plenty of week for that left/ So let’s go back to my first live, American military history. First, let’s...
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Before we get going on the main topic, a couple of short takes. Yesterday in the US was Flag Day, marking the day that the Second Continental Congress, in 1777 decreed: “the flag of the United States...
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You should see this …
Many thanks to Charlie at Smoke of Satan and the Open Windows of Vatican ll. Charlie is an excellent writer (as you’ll see below) and I’m thrilled that he is much improved physically. I was impressed...
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Random Observations
I don’t do politics on Saturdays; it has always been our get away and laugh place. Just this once, before we resume our ‘regularly scheduled’ silliness, I have to share this link. With Roe v Wade, all...
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In reverse
I’m a great one for internet searches; I use it all the time. Alys didn’t know what a Toll House cookie was so I searched ‘images of toll house cookies’ and then sent her the link. Fun. Easy. Harmless....
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Reflections on a Train Trip
So, I’m with Audre, change is good, sometimes but other times we really ought to change it back. But anyway, last Friday marked the 11th year of NEO. I started this blog not because I really had all...
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Live Better and More Free
I hear the British are complaining about the heat, claiming that 104 degrees is too hot for even an Englishman to go out in the hot sun (no word if mad dogs agree). Well, it is warm but a guy by the...
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