Light On Dark Water

I haven't seen very much of Stephen Colbert's tv show, because when I have seen him I didn't think he was really that funny. The opening is quite funny, but to my taste that's the best part. My first impression was that he was just another smirker, like Jon Stewart, but I think he's really…

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I wonder what folks in the UK think about this. Alarmism, or a serious concern?

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We don't really have autumn here. At this time of year the nights get a bit cooler but the days are still fairly hot, into the mid-80s (F–high 20sC). Mobile Bay is a shallow body of water that gets very very warm during the summer. By the end of summer the water temperature is at…

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This morning I saw a car that had a big sticker saying “Dog Is Love,” and some other dog-fanatic message that I can’t remember now. Well, fine, I like dogs, too, but I wondered if this person really meant the implicit putdown of Christianity (“God is love, and he who lives in love lives in…

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Today is a sort of palindrome, if you think of month-day-century-year as the units: 10/20/2010. In U.S. form, anyway–it always throws me for a complete loop when I see something like 20/10/2010–month 20?!?

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Bad hurricane/typhoon on the way. As long-time (in Internet terms) readers of this blog know, we have a reader and friend in the Manila area, though she hasn't commented for a while.

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Perhaps you've heard of the Darwin Awards. I think the idea began as only a joke of unknown origin: a Darwin Award was proposed for people who brought about their own deaths in strikingly stupid ways, thus, according to evolutionary doctrine, improving the human race by removing their stupid genes (I mean, the genes that…

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"I haven't seen a person yet that it didn't bring a smile to their face."  I was no exception. You have to watch the video to appreciate it.

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