Friday, May 09, 2008

Time to move

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This will be the last of my blog posts on blogspot.com. I've had the domain name, TheTownCrank.com , registered for some time now and I...
Monday, April 14, 2008

New More Nukes!

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That's how one wag put it in a comment to this story from Scientific American . I heartily agree with him (emphasis in article mine) : ...

Recent commentary: gas and ethanol

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Reader Reaction Forum: Will gas prices cause you to curb summer travels? (published 14-Apr-2008, Appleton Post-Crescent) I hitchhike more, d...
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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Truth or Satire?

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From Downsize DC , this message from one of their frequent newsletters: Did Congress ban wireless internet networks last week? According to ...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Keystone Kops

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The vast majority of people on either side of the manmade global warming argument haven't examined the arguments in any detail whatsoeve...
Friday, April 04, 2008

The 2nd American Revolution

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That's Carla Howell, chairman of the Small Government Committee. It's beginning again in Massachusetts, the site of the beginning of...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

The Earth Hour bust

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I replied to a post on an Amazon "climate change forum" subtitled " What should we do to mitigate climate change? ". He...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

An excellent spoof of TV political reporting

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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Friday, February 22, 2008

No more poison fuel!

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As you may have heard , the Aegis-class USS Lake Erie fired one missile at the "dying spy satellite" and scored a direct hit. Tha...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Poison fuel

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You've heard about the U.S. spy satellite that's headed towards the ground. As Edison Carter used to say in " Max Headroom ...
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Time to vote

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(Letter to the editor, published 17-Feb-2008, Appleton Post-Crescent) Presidential primaries are the only elections where you've really ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Fuzzy math skewered!

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"Dedicated to Peacefully Disarming Fuzzy Math", the web site called Weapons of Math Destruction Comics was founded in 2006. The s...
Monday, February 04, 2008

Not quite like the Battle of Stirling Bridge

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Several Israeli soldiers were suspended for being politically incorrect in the presence of Palestinian shepherds. The form their incorrect...
Sunday, February 03, 2008

It's coming, I'm telling you

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This may seem like a joke – and the Smoking Gun article claims that it'll be "dead on arrival" – but you're going to see ...

Another twist to Universal Health Care

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This story today got me to thinking about an aspect of the imminent Universal Health Care I hadn't considered before: Clinton health pl...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Will we be drowned?

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In " An Inconvenient Truth ", Al Gore – Nobel laureate, Oscar winner, and erstwhile Vice President – made a very scary prediction:...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Paul blackballed?

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I heard both from the local Fox Valley Ron Paul Meetup group and from Downsize DC that Ron Paul was to be excluded from the January 6th Re...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Update - haven't we had enough of this?

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More dialog on the 10-year-old girl arrested for using a steak knife on her lunch. I've corresponded with a group of friends on this t...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Recent commentary: free exercise of religion

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Should nativity scenes be displayed on government property during the Christmas season? (published 24-Dec-2007, Appleton Post-Crescent) ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Haven't we had enough of this?

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I mean, enough of arresting 10-year-olds in public schools? This young girl brought leftover steak for lunch and a steak knife. She began ...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

The Ron Paul Tea Party

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On Sunday, December 16th, tens of thousands of Ron Paul supporters will donate $100 each to raise another huge chunk of money for his campa...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Poodwaddle

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Odd, no? But it's a site with all sorts of nifty items for web sites. For instance: Poodwaddle.com
Saturday, December 08, 2007

Polar bears on the brink?

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Interesting article in the London Daily Mail about a film crew doing a new documentary, "Polar Bear Week", about the bears around...
Thursday, December 06, 2007

They did the math for me!

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Tuesday's analysis of the proposal by Israeli environmentalists to reduce carbon emissions during Hannukah involved a fair amount of un...

Some things cannot be parodied

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I'll let this article speak for itself: Kangaroo farts could ease global warming December 06, 2007 11:56am Article from: Agence France-P...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Whatever next?

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The Jerusalem Post reports that In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is en...
Monday, December 03, 2007

Excellent!

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Chavez Loses Constitutional Vote Dec 3, 6:54 AM (ET) By FRANK BAJAK CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, Pr...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

On being correct, III

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Zero tolerance or zero intelligence? You decide: Students Suspended For Fake Drug Use In PSA WAYNESBURG. PA - Two students at Waynesburg Cen...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

One to watch, II

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My earlier post about the potential Supreme Court case, District of Columbia v. Heller, expressed hope that the Court would hear it. Now i...

Our friends, the Saudis, II

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As expected, the Saudi Arabian justice system has defended it's ruling of a few days ago that sentenced a 19-year-old rape victim to 200...
Monday, November 19, 2007

Think it can't happen here?

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A British emigré to New Zealand is having trouble getting his wife to join him. No, she isn't reluctant to move to NZ. She's been ...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Our friends, the Saudis

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Tough to find words to describe my reaction to this. I'm going to let the story speak for itself (emphasis mine): Saudi punishes gang ...
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