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Today and today only

you get to resurrect one extinct species. Which one is it?

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Kickstarter for Eldritch Skies

“Hi. My name is John Snead. And this is Cythulu and my cat.” “HP Lovecraft was more than a horror writer. He was a visionary.” “This game has horror in it, but it also has wonder.” My friend John Snead … Continue reading

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In Memoriam, Anne Berner 1910-2011

We buried my grandmother this past Sunday. She was 101 years old, and while I would not want to be 101 like she was 101–especially in the last six months or so of her life, her body failed in ways … Continue reading

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Twin Baby Boys Have a Conversation Parts 1 & 2

My sisters are twins and while I don’t remember them having conversations like this, watching these two videos brings back an awful lot of memories.

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When there’s a boot on your neck, you don’t need to know if the boot belongs to the state or federal government to know it sucks

In comments, JutGory wrote: There is very little tolerance on the left for any notion of “states rights,” even when the issue has nothing to do with race. It’s true that “states’ rights” has a long and shameful history as … Continue reading

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Videos I've Been Watching: On The Holocaust, On "New Data on the Rise of Women"

Some videos I think are worth watching. First, The Daily Show on at least one Fox Network host’s insistence that no one on that network ever compares people on the left to the Nazis for rhetorical effect: The Daily Show … Continue reading

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The promotion of drivel

I heard this on Checkpoint (a news programme on NZ’s equivalent of NPR) last Thursday, as part of a story about research that had found a correlation between strokes and living close to a road The author’s did find that … Continue reading

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Help save Sydney and Maddox's school!

My housemate Kim used to occasionally post on Alas as Kim (Basement Variety). Her kids, also my housemates, Sydney and Maddox, used to appear regularly on “Alas,” first in “Baby Blogging” and then in “Kid Blogging” posts. They now attend … Continue reading

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Microaggressions

My wife pointed me to an excellent, if infuriating, blog last night, and I was up until 2 AM reading through it. Microaggressions is a blog about the little daily fuck-yous that populate the world if your race, gender, ethnicity, … Continue reading

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So This is What Two Feet of Snow Looks Like

My mother sent me this photo, which was forwarded to her by “this came from my friend in denver who has a friend in maine who has nothing better to do with his time.” I just can’t resist posting it.

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