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Trusting Microsoft?

Dana Blankenhorn asks What Would Make You Trust Microsoft? Good question. I’ll apply the same standard here as I do to everything else — God’s sense of justice. First, I suppose we should note, as one poster did, there are … Continue reading

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Biggest Dope Dealer in the World: CIA

It’s easy to confuse things talking about the US Government, as if it were one single thing. It’s not. The federal bureaucracy is multiple governments under a single umbrella, and occasionally competing. I have long said one of the greatest … Continue reading

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The Interstellar Anthropologist, Part 2: Research

He stared into the darkened ceiling. The concept of “bureaucratic efficiency” had been an oxymoron since the creation of bureaucrats. His request for a separate space to simply sit and think quietly was almost unheard of in that day and … Continue reading

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Stumbling from One Mess to Another

So we know Obama declared a national emergency over the alleged threat from the Swine Flu. If you review all the various laws and declarations which are linked to this, you could justly say we are one phone call from … Continue reading

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The Interstellar Anthropologist, Part 1: Travel

In the ancient literature, they called it “hyperspace.” Lacking the conceptual tools for discussing the means for spatial displacement which didn’t require actually crossing the space, they came up with a word which missed the point, but was still popularly … Continue reading

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Accidental Conformity

I can give only what I have. Some say I am able to package it nicely, and it is surely a pleasure for me to do the wrapping. But in the end, it’s what’s inside the packaging that counts. It … Continue reading

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Do This First

We are under a dictatorship. It’s a tyranny we Americans tolerate for now, because we don’t have what it takes to resist. Red Dawn? Nah. We aren’t like that; we aren’t that strong. Worse, no enemy is going to make … Continue reading

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Halt, Reconfigure, Restart

In English, we call Him Jehovah. You can quibble all you like about proper Hebrew spelling and pronunciation, but if you don’t also adhere to the Hebrew world-view and intellectual assumptions along with it, you’re just making noise. If you … Continue reading

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Dating and Courtship: Doing It All Wrong

Western Civilization is in collapse. In a very short time, as such things are measured, it will be gone, forgotten. So don’t waste time mourning. We should have never been here in the first place. The best of what we … Continue reading

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Couldn’t Have Guessed

He never expected to live this long. In the middle of his first century of life, nobody could have guessed how simple it was to remove most of the artificial pollutants. All that business about “natural” nutrients pretty much revolutionized … Continue reading

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