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Thursday, January 01, 2026

The Silliest Thing Ever Written?

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TheWeeklyStandard? NeverHeardOfItVille From America's number one conservative public intellectual... Or some such NYT/PBS/AtlanticMonthl...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Wither Gene Editing Blockbusters To Come?

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SometimesASequenceIsJust ASequence WhoseCorrectionMayBeTooSmallToProfitFromVille On Monday we talked a little bit about a new gene editing...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

The Casinofication Of Everything, Reloaded.

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It'sNotJustTheWideWorldOfSports AnymoreVille From Judd Legum writing at his Substack: Two major news networks, CNN and CNBC, recently an...
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Monday, December 29, 2025

A Truly Impressive Bit Of 'Prime' That Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Free Home Delivery.

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WillTheWondersNever CeaseVille Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), one form of which is called p47GCD, is a condition wherein the affected...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Neither Velvet Nor Foggy.

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MayYourEarsBeMerry AndBrightVille If you need a little listening enjoyment for the next few days... Hear Mel Torme tell a super young Terry...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

The Rot At The Heart Of The Stream-O-Verse.

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WhatWouldBurlDo IvesVille From deep in the bowels of Reddit, one user shouts a high wattage truism out into the void... "(T)heir entir...
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Thursday, December 18, 2025

The Advent Jukebox, Revisited!

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  It's Bigger E! Backed with the lost (old) boys of never lab... You can find more of E.'s advent jukebox offerings ....Here ....and...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Why Would Anyone Go There?

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CancellingPlaydates BetweenFriendsVille From Chris Michael, writing in the Guardian: All tourists to the United States would have to reveal...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Twenty-Five (Or -Six) Minutes Before Four In The Morning.

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NotQuiteCohen TimeVille When I was a teenaged kid, and just starting to pay attention to popular music as punk started to break, the band fo...
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Monday, December 08, 2025

William Gibson's Overdrive

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NeitherAleph NorOracleVille Regarding the image above of 19th century writing desks or 'slopes' as they were known... From the mind ...
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Friday, December 05, 2025

Advent Jukebox...Day 5.

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WhereCarolers SingBelowVille The two E's were over last night to get the decorating for the season started in earnest. And what could b...

HST Friday - Sometimes A Favour Is Just A Favour...

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NothingDigitalWillSetYou FreeVille 'Nobody gives a mojo wire as a present, right?' That was Hunter Thompson, writing to Dick Goodwin...
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Thursday, December 04, 2025

Maybe If It Was Made Of Bananas...

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RaffiWas RightVille Well, well, well, whadd'ya know: Earlier this year we noted how the Trump administration had cooked up a half-assed ...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2025

A Bubble For The Shedding?

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ThisAin'tNoPartyThisAin'tNoDisco ThisAin'tNoFoolin'AroundVille Depending on where you've been looking, you might have co...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Advent Jukebox...Day 1...I'll Be Home

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IfOnlyInOur DreamsVille This time around you don't have to listen to my spastic warbles. Instead, you can listen to the real thing! ___...
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