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Category Archives: Pop Culture
You never know what you’ll find in the attic
For example, you might stumble across an October 1978 issue of Seventeen magazine with a 13-year old Brooke Shields on the cover . . . I was thinking about selling it on ebay (along with the other issues in the … Continue reading
Gas price primer
From Rich Hailey, someone who actually took the time to understand why gas prices rise and fall. Via Instapundit. Profit margins on the gasoline business are very slim. The profit margin on gasoline sales was only about 6 percent in … Continue reading
Suppose anyone would notice?
Via Instapundit, Wired has a piece about a programmer who supposedly outsourced his own job to India: Did you hear the one about the programmer who outsourced his own job? I read about it on Slashdot.org, the “news for nerds” … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Writing
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Why does this man’s inability to do simple arithmetic not suprise me?
“I ate three lumps of it. But I spat two of them out, so I really ate one and a half of them.” Ooookay. Welcome to the mind of a man who, to protest an act of animal cruelty that … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture
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No Face on Mars?????
First, it turns out all those fine photos of Nessie were a bunch of hoaxes. Now it emerges that the Face on Mars is really . . . a MESA? Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us all that … Continue reading
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And don’t forget the doggy bag
Via one of Michael Blowhard’s always-worthwhile round-up posts, here’s a Christian Science Monitor piece that makes a point I’ve noticed myself: the cost of eating out is on par with, if not lower than, the cost of buying and preparing … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Pop Culture
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Dueling faiths
That would be science v. religion >:-) Courtesy of Curtis Brainard and CJR Daily, we have this nice round-up of the media coverage of Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion: [U]nfavorable reviews of The God Delusion have branded Dawkins’ promotion … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Science, Spirituality
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It’s the end of the world as we know it*
Here’s a worthwhile read by Kurt Anderson on the New York magazine website on the “frisson of smug or hysterical pleasure” that characterizes contemporary “apocalypse preoccupations” — including those that have leached into “less-fantastical” — i.e. secular/Western/post-Enlightenment — “thought and … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Pop Culture
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Yodeling the Classics
I heard a cut from this 1997 CD, featuring Mary Schneider, Australia’s Queen of Yodeling, on PBS the other morning and realized that my admittedly puny CD collection had a GAPING hole that had to be filled pronto. I mean, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Pop Culture
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