Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Humor

How McCain Won the Election

An Exclusive Interview with the President-Elect By Wilton String for THE ASSOCIATED... 


The Red Demon Meets His Match

from “The Further Adventures of Splashman and Rocket” Down-shifting into... 


April’s Fool

from “The Further Adventures of Splashman and Rocket” I had been wondering about... 


W Bobbitises Spitzer, Gives Election to McCain

Final score: W & McCain = 1, Eliot & Dimocrats = 0 If you think it was... 


My Mort Luby Story

Everybody has a Mort story. This is mine. Some years ago we had set up a magazine... 


Avoiding Brain-Damanged Presidents

Political Analysis Parody Adapted from NYT OpEd Piece Reform Maven’s New Election... 


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Notes

The Stronghold

Notes for August 3, 2009 (Thanks to the Strong Family Association of America for... 


Milkweed & Monarchs

Notes for July 16, 2009 Milkweed and crown vetch in the Fox River Forest Preserve... 


The Spider’s Gift

Sometimes now, when I awaken from a troubled sleep, I find myself reliving an ambulance... 


The First Cunning Tyrant

Notes for December 1, 2007 One hundred and forty-five years ago today, in the midst... 


By the Mark 666

Notes for November 20, 2007 The leadsman on a Mississippi riverboat called out the... 


Walking on Guth Street

Notes for November 10, 2007 The weather is warm for the first part of November. We... 


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Commentary

When “Free” Isn’t…

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Understanding Your Fat

The main role of adipose tissue or body fat is to store energy in the form of fat, although it also cushions and insulates the body. It is actually a type of loose connective tissue. Obesity or being overweight depends on the amount of body fat—specifically, adipose tissue — you are carrying around. Adipose tissue also  produces hormones. The... [Read more of this review]


Media Notes: Alumni calendars and newspapers

Got worked up over the redesign of the Swarthmore College alumni calendar and despite having been kicked out after two years had the gall to post a diatribe on the class listserve: I think it is true that the calendar is a valuable tool and it is also true that some minds in the administration have gone a bit squishy of late. The “classical”... [Read more of this review]


A Little Economic Perspective

When your nose is to the grindstone it is hard to see where you’ve come from and where you’re going. A look at the 30-year Dow Jones Industrial Average can provide some interesting perspective. When you first look at it you see a slow, steady climb from 1979 to 1995 and then a quick rise to a significant high point followed by a tumble almost... [Read more of this review]


New Year’s Message

In 1963, we brought back from our tour in Germany with the Army Signal Corps seeds we had gathered from the giant pines in the Black Forest region. We grew them in window boxes, hundreds of seedlings that we thought would become a forest on our land … but our dachshund puppies had other ideas. We salvaged a couple of dozen seedlings and left... [Read more of this review]


Problems in Dealing with Tribal Societies

“A page of history is worth a volume of logic” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., New York Trust Co. V. Eisner, 1921 Long before there was an English language, the users of the Arabic language, as early as the sixth century, had already produced outstanding works of poetry, history, medicine, mathematics and astronomy. Paper was being produced in Baghdad... [Read more of this review]


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