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History Holocaust World War II

Another reason why bans on symbols lead to bad policy

As much as I oppose Holocaust denial, fascism, and neo-Nazis, you might recall that I am very much in favor of free speech. Indeed, I tend to take as broad an interpretation of the First Amendment as possible, and remain very grateful to our Founding Fathers for enshrining this freedom in the Constitution, where it’s […]

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Entertainment/culture Humor Music

Camp album covers

I have a weakness for kitschy and campy stuff, and album covers are a particularly fertile ground for tacky and silly stuff. Fortunately, thanks to Dennis Catron, I get to indulge my enjoyment of such things with his lovely collection of camp album covers. Most of them come from the 1950’s and 1960’s, but there […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine

Problems with reflexology

Yep, this about sums it up:

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Music Personal

It’s just that sort of day

Today is just the kind of day when these lyrics speak to me: And you run, you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older Shorter of breath and one day closer to […]

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Entertainment/culture Humor Music Television

One more reason I’m a huge David Bowie fan

Here he is on Extras, providing a little impromptu song: What an honor, to be dissed by Bowie in song, and a song that rather sounds like some of his really old stuff. You know, it’d be really cool if Bowie were to record this tune. Speaking of which, it’s been three years since his […]