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I just watched Hard Candy. Move over, Dirty Harry. Ellen Page is here. This is a rather grim movie with a moral, and another fabulous performance...
The battle of the Ask-a-Nurses. Or: Insurance companies are fighting back. When I lived in ND, the big hospital & clinic conglomerate, Meritcare...
Recently my 2004 Prius has begun doing something it never did before: Maybe half (?) the time, when I shut the car off, it makes one long beep....
Everything you thought you knew about sharks is wrong. Everything. Sharks are not man-eaters. They are not vicious. They are not even...
I've been getting too worked up over the political and religious arguments here lately, so I'm going to take a break from PriusChat for a while.
Great movie! Sci-fi, but without any special effects or space ships, and yet it's a gripping story: A university professor tells a few of his...
In the Middle Ages (a fascinating period; I've just completed the three Teaching Company lecture series on the period) people considered that the...
Sorry, but I just found this terribly funny: I got an advertisement in the mail today, asking me to fill in a form and send it in to register for...
Yesterday I got a phone call. A recorded voice asked me to press "1" if I was willing to take a political poll which would be reported to the...
When I lived in Mexico I had a computer for a year or so, and played chess on ICC (the Internet Chess Club) but I had a dial-up internet...
Global warming mug.
From this article in autospeed-dot-com: the NHW10 model (released in 1998) is now suffering widespread battery failure. The reference is to the...
In the interest of equal-opportunity religion bashing, I offer the following: Charles Kimball, Th.D., lecturer of The Teaching Company's lecture...
I'll try to post a picture a day, but no promises, because accessing PC from the slow internet here is painfully slow and frustrating.
I'm off to the most spectacularly-beautiful country I've ever seen in my life: southeastern British Columbia. I've been to New Zealand, Scotland,...
I got home yesterday from Bimini Island, in The Bahamas. About 20 minutes by air from Ft. Lauderdale, Bimini is a friendly, laid-back island with...
Terry Gross interviewed Michael Greenberger on her radio program, Fresh Air, on April 3. The topic was derivatives, credit risk swaps, and the...
I just had a peek inside Fred's House of Politics. Boy, am I glad I quit participating in that forum! Thanks, Danny & the mods, for shoving all...
It is common to refer to our system of government, in Abraham Lincoln's terms: "Of the people, by the people, and for the people." But was our...
How The Grinch Sold Green-ness http://www.davesevs.com/grinch.htm Long, but worth the read.
