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Gulf Oil Disaster: Does Anybody Really Know?
Obviously, since I’m not an expert on petroleum extraction on any level, there is nothing here which will uncover anything really new. There are some people who know, but we can’t be sure if all those yakking about it really … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, government, science, survival
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Archaeology: Not Bothering to Check
We have all sorts of crazy, outrageous, and inevitably silly stuff said about early humanity. The most recent controversial find — Gobekli Tepe temple near Sanliurfa, Turkey — threatens to force yet another crazy rewrite of the narrative. None of … Continue reading
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Iran: Exposing the Lies
Examine, if you have time, our national history regarding the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT). You’ll see we pushed hard for it, and most of its provisions derive from our government’s concerns about other nations doing to us what we did … Continue reading
The Fiction of Control
There is a sense in which no man can be ruled who does not permit it. People in the aggregate prefer the results of letting governments take charge of things, and a host of cultural and contextual factors affect that, … Continue reading
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The Ice Man Cometh
I take the position most of the Al Gore brand of AGW is merely a fraud, a way of scraping off a few billion more from the people who generate wealth by actually working. Yes, the climate is changing, but … Continue reading
From Mists to Mysts, Part 16: Epilogue
The greatest struggle for Fortis was not the symbolism of Misty’s dominant religion. The spiritual logic was not out of reach. What he struggled with was the sudden slow pace of life. The sea journey was a jolting experience intellectually, … Continue reading
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From Mists to Mysts, Part 3: Coming and Going
There was excited shouting from the pier. Someone was out on the end, calling back to several others in front of the first solid man-made building Fortis had seen so far. He could just make out carefully stacked stones in … Continue reading
From Mists to Mysts, Part 2: Landing
Fortis joined George in the lower deck, feeding, brushing and cleaning up behind the animals. He learned the common term for them was “coursers.” During the journey across the polar island, it seemed they ate all the grass they could … Continue reading
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From Mists to Mysts, Part 1: Prologue
A digest from the Anthropologist’s report on Dalorius Four: Dalorius Four is known locally as Misty. The inhabitants of Misty maintain a fairly stable tribal social and political structure, though internecine warfare is not unknown. The economy is Eastern Feudalism, … Continue reading
Interstellar Anthropologist, Part 8: The Shape of Things
It had seemed like a good idea to pass one last night on the ship, since it allowed Fortis to file an initial report into the non-destructible memory module. He also ran several simulations before he noticed his circadian rhythm … Continue reading