Search Results: state
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26 May 2020: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
Politics, Whimsy: California ballot propositions, California politics, lgbt, Love waves, marriage · 38 comments... on whether or not a slim 50% majority can amend the state constitution in order to specifically deny a previously-recognized ... 18,000 same-sex marriages performed last year, between the state Supreme Court's decision that same-sex marriage was a constitutional ...
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25 Mar 2020: Are Geophysicists Geologists? Part II
Human Fuzzies, Science: disciplinary boundaries, professional licensing, Washington · 14 comments... in academic politics. In Washington, as in most U.S. states, geology is a regulated profession; guidelines for who can and cannot ...
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19 Feb 2020: Earth Scientists on Stamps
Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 comments... in the history books, it is a sneaky kind of aspirational statement. I'm disappointed that I failed on the racial/ethnic diversity box; ...
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30 Jan 2020: 2020 Flood Deposits and the Johnson County Conservation Bond
Science: floods, hydrology, Iowa, unfinished drafts · no comments... have been on many people's minds. In Iowa's "natural" state, . I put "natural" in scare quotes here because the streams and hills in ...
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15 Jan 2020: Manhattan Fault Line
Aimless: · 3 comments... "every 150 years". I was skeptical. The Eastern United States has a long and complex geological history that has left the place ...
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14 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 1 comment... Statistics for Mineral Commodities in the United States, Data Series 2020-140 -- Production, consumption, and value of non-fuel ...
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4 Jan 2020: 2020 Blogolutions
Meta: · 4 comments... they'll generate more discussion in their scatterbrained state than they would have in a more polished form. If you're interested in ...
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31 Dec 2020: Geological Predictions for 2020
Aimless: · 13 comments... The magnitude ~9 earthquake, and ensuing tsunami, devastate the coastal Pacific Northwest, including Seattle, Portland, and ...
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18 Dec 2020: California is Safe?
Aimless: · 10 comments... a map of the most naturally hazardous areas in the United States: Fans of earthquake doooooooooom will immediately see a problem in ... deaths from other events as well, but I think the statewide number should be trustworthy. Full reference: Kevin A Borden, Susan ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... use the excuse that the list is biased towards the United States! Luckily, now is the perfect time to daydream about hot desert ...
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6 Nov 2020: Why Proposition 8 Hurts So Much
Politics: · 3 comments... was my home for 9 years, and is the bluest of blue states, the sort of state one expects to be accepting - but that's not why I'm so upset.So far, ...
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4 Nov 2020: Evelyn Julia Brumm, Rest in Peace
Aimless: · 8 comments... as to actually doubt the existence of the United States. Voting is therefore much better than church. I think I'm going to ...
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26 Oct 2020: Introducing Thomas M. Rock
Aimless: · 1 comment... billion years old, related to what was formerly the United States' primary source of beryllium. If you want a 1.4 billion year old piece ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... The woman in the picture is loaded up with symbols and statements, and her cleavage is a mere phrase in a possibly very rich (or for ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... If you're elsewhere in the U.S., you might start with your state's official rock or mineral. For the rest of the world... maybe you can ...
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14 Sep 2020: The Rusty King of All Metals
Aimless: · 2 comments... knowledge of Geology seems to be requisite in all states and pursuits of life. The artisan and the mechanic, are benefited by the ... king of all metals,) man could not exist in a civilized state, for, from the weighty hammer and the delicate needle comes most of the ...
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17 Jul 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · no comments... at Delphi: some people interpret the reported trance-like state of the oracles to be related to natural gas [methane] seeping out of the ...
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30 Jun 2020: Tunguskatennial
Aimless: · no comments... or might not be an impact crater: The narration overstates the "mystery" about the cause of the explosion. We might not have any of ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment... of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State, has been writing about faculty life at Brumm Blog for a bit over a ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... back from Phoenix: [But] because we were in this anomalous state, we requested, and received, a bunch of contingency passes from MRO and ...
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25 Apr 2020: The Meaning of Significance
Aimless: · 3 comments... is to put decent leadership in local government. A recent state supreme court decision requires developers to ensure that their projects ...
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19 Apr 2020: Earthquake in Illinois: What’s up with Wabash Valley?
Aimless: · 16 comments... earthquakes of Holocene and latest Pleistocene ages in the states of Indiana and Illinois, USA. Engineering Geology 50 227-254, ...
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6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism
Aimless: · 10 comments... reputations are built on our ability to make true statements about the world, and even though everyone makes mistakes, being ... - "use your best efforts to ensure that all facts and statements in [your blog] are true"). We also have obligations of courtesy to ...
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25 Mar 2020: The Five Emotions of Thesis-Writing
Aimless: · 13 comments... irritability, relief and robot. "Robot" is the state I am aiming for most of the time. It's what I feel when I'm working ... blend what would otherwise be entirely distinct emotional states into a blurry haze of work is one of its primary charms. I just ...
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14 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: The Bishop Tuff
Aimless: · 6 comments... - though “exploded” is, if anything, an understatement. The photo was taken 15 miles (25 of your Earth kilometers) away from ...
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6 Mar 2020: Repost: Larry Summers, Math, and Violence
Aimless: · 6 comments... light of the fact that Cal State is still committed to firing its nonviolent math teachers (the state attorney general has weighed in, supporting the dismissal, and ...
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4 Mar 2020: Oops! I’m Perjured Again
Aimless: · 7 comments... saw Ed Brayton's post about a math teacher fired from Cal State East Bay for refusing to sign a loyalty oath, I had mostly forgotten that ... guilty of perjury. Y'see, as a public employee of the state of California, I was required to sign that exact same oath: I do ...
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29 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Desert Varnish
Aimless: · 5 comments... the latest issue of Geology. Three scientists at Arizona State took a careful look at some sections of desert varnish picked up in the ...
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21 Feb 2020: And the Three Billion Dollar Grant Goes to…
Aimless: · 5 comments... on a single project in geology. Moreover, the unstated corollary is that all other funding will dry up, with the exception of ...
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4 Jan 2020: Caucus
Politics: Dennis Kucinich, Iowa caucuses, Iowa City, presidential elections · no comments... Edwards camps. I feel like I should make some sweeping statement about whether or not the caucuses should continue. They felt, on the ...
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3 Jan 2020: Notes from the Iowa Frontlines
Politics: Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Iowa caucuses, presidential elections · 2 comments... haze of prerecorded messages and "I'm calling from out-of-state because...". This household is a fat, juicy political prize - three ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... to cut-up literature. Tristan Tzara was making a statement about the nature of art, and Robert Anton Wilson did too many drugs ...
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1 Nov 2020: We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Gosh Darn It, We’re the November Scientiae!
Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, feminism, gender, impostor syndrome, scientiae, sexism, zombies · 15 comments... happens when a man gets angry and makes overly general statements; he generally gets cut some slack, or at least left to ...
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15 Oct 2020: Whatever Doesn’t Kill Us Will Provide a Nice Soak
Personal, Science: camping, hot springs, Long Valley · 3 comments... off in Eastern California, covering the western United States with ash and leaving behind a 15 km x 30 km caldera. That volcanic ... ski boom, I'm not scrambling to invest in mountain real estate. But as a tourist, the odds are very low that an eruption will occur ...
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5 Oct 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Berea Sandstone
Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 1 comment... sea that covered most of what is now the central United States. Delta deposits from rivers that flowed into this bay are now known, ...
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31 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Marriage in Iowa
Politics: Friday random ten, Iowa, iTunes iChing, same-sex marriage · 2 comments... means "a district court said so" - there's certainly a state Supreme Court challenge, and perhaps some legislative bullshit posturing, ...
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29 Jul 2020: Understanding Everyday Symbolism
Politics: hate crimes, racism · 6 comments... found in the comments to that thread with similar statements made about African-American men (or another group of your choosing, ...
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4 Jul 2020: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong
Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 comments... yearning to breathe free! The separation of church and state! Freedom of conscience! Promoting the general welfare! Establishing ... of the Enlightenment, but I'm not so sure that the nation-state was a very good idea. If I had to guess, I'd guess that I'm really ...
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28 Jun 2020: Science World Heritage
Science: dead white men, history of science, world heritage · 1 comment... of the Galápagos to his work is easily and frequently overstated, but still - the proposal just smells too much of "George Washington ...
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3 Apr 2020: How Much NSF Grant Money Can One Bad Apple Control?
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, peer review, scientiae, sexism · 5 comments... to the applicant, the scientific discipline and the United States.) Now, this review made us both want to puke on the reviewer's shoes, ... women are very rare, that the original broader impacts statement did not contain anything interesting to talk about, that the reviewer ...
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1 Feb 2020: And So Begins the Tedious Commentary on Hillary’s Gender
Politics: gender, Hillary Clinton, lazy journalism, sexism · 6 comments... gathered on the net effect of gender in Congressional, state, and local elections. The representative from Emily's List, too, knew ...
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7 Nov 2020: The Last-Minute Ballot
Politics: California ballot propositions, endorsements · no comments... I really wish such an office existed. Secretary of State: Bowen - she believes in paper trails. Lesser State Offices: party-line Democrat Senator: Todd Chretien - although I kind of ...
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24 Oct 2020: Hawaii, the New York Times, and Triggered Seismicity
Science: earthquakes, Hawaii, lazy journalism · 9 comments... has more to do with psychology than seismology. The United States Geological Survey estimates that every two and a half days, on average, ...
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25 Aug 2020: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... been showing up uninvited. They never played the game of state license plates in the car. - kids no longer play state license plate games? OUTRAGE! They have always preferred going out in ...
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8 Aug 2020: My Identity is a List of Links
Links, Politics, Science: angst, anti-racism, porous media, sexism, white studies · 15 comments... concepts of identity. She appears to see identity statements as claims about the speaker's desire or affinity, while I usually ... it means I am denying my own privilege. If identity is a statement of desire and affinity, saying that I'm not White is a perfectly ...
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4 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Storms on Titan
Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, methane, Titan · 3 comments... the auspicious day of Friday is once again upon us, I'll restate my question. O Frabjous Oracle! We know that Saturn's moon Titan has a ...
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27 Jul 2020: Coming Down from the Link Rush
Links, Meta: anti-racism, blog carnivals, doing science, erase racism, NASA, panta rei, race in science, racism · 1 comment... and Science Daniel Collins on NASA's changing mission statement: yes, they really are slighting the study of Earth. Don't make me ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... women who have studied or worked in the United States for at least five years I also need: K-12 girls who are interested ...
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6 Jul 2020: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County
Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments... when sixth-grader Alexander Dobrich stood up to read a statement, yelled at him "take your yarmulke off!" His statement, read by Samantha, confided "I feel bad when kids in my class call me ...
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17 May 2020: Miss Manners vs. the Washington Post
Politics: miss manners, sexism, the walking uterus · 1 comment... falling apart. Trust me. I do not want a baby. But my stated desires are irrelevant - I cannot get prescribed a medication that will ...
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7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced
Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments... to the structure of oppression that tells us there are red states and then there are blue states, and there is no room in the system for anybody else. Well, I've run ...
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29 Mar 2020: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept
Meta: blogtinkery, ideas for plugins, rhetorical tactics · no comments... I do have a reason that I blog in the first place (as I stated at the beginning of my blogging life): to generate discussion and ...
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20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History
Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments... of the galaxy - without creating yet another bland restatement of the anthropic principle. I kind of like this idea, because I'm ...
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13 Jan 2020: Rehydrated AGU
Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no comments... manner, it will be picked up by the press and the state of science journalism will improve. Clever packaging certainly won't hurt ...
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22 Dec 2020: All I Haven’t Said
Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 comments... don't, which is the legacy the Constitution of the United States leaves us with today. I was a bit worried that agreeing so much with ...
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26 Nov 2020: My Neighbors Are Penis Zombies
Politics: Berzerkeley, rape, sexism · 4 comments... because they make their decisions in a sexually unaroused state and fail to appreciate how intense sexual arousal would alter even their ... would themselves make the same choice when in an aroused state. It should be clear that such effects of arousal cannot justify any ...
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8 Nov 2020: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs
Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 comments... starting points for geological investigation is easily overstated; it's usually easier to go the other way, and "validate" a folk tale by ...
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1 Nov 2020: Plebiscite Time Is Fun Time
Politics: abortion, California ballot propositions, co-op living, MediCal, teacher tenure · 9 comments... banal and derivative; I don't know how many other states nearly-identical legislation has been proposed in, but it's more than ... so sneaky. Rating: C- My vote: No, subject to the state of the polls on Monday night. If it looks like 78 might pass and 79 is ...
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4 Oct 2020: Whereas
Human Fuzzies, Personal: grammar · 1 comment... other places too: Whereas Fact A, Vaguely Contrasting Statement B. Whereas the crust does this thing, the lithospheric mantle does ...
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28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments... for America." Once upon a time, I thought the Great State of Iowa wanted my young, educated ass back on the prairie, to prop up an ...
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21 Sep 2020: Things, Awesome and Otherwise
Links: bioluminescence, flags, genetic engineering, glow in the dark, Hans Island · no comments... the two [Danish and Canadian] ministers said in a joint statement after the meeting. They agreed, however, to stop the two nations' ...
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12 Sep 2020: The 4th Circuit Pees on the 4th Amendment
Politics: civil liberties, fascist police states, FEMA · 2 comments... we in a police state yet? When're we gonna be there? I have to go potty! Are we in a police state yet? I want ice cream! Where's the fascism? Court Rules U.S. Can ...
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9 Sep 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-N
Whimsy: co-op living, Friday random ten, Germany, Nutella, search requests, welfare · 4 comments... bonus! A tribute to Nutella from the German welfare state: Personne pourtant ne s'étonne en Allemagne que le pot de Nutella, ... [link via] Search Requests electro college votes per states astronomer exploding bladder Astrological prediction for earthquake in ...
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3 Sep 2020: The Red Cross Is the Military. Or Something.
Politics: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans · no comments... the American Red Cross Disaster FAQs: The state Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to ...
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2 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests, Sierra Nevada · no comments... In E-Flat For Military Band - II - Intermezzo- The United States Air Force Band The Crown: Tiger In My Tank- Split Lip Rayfield The ...
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29 Jul 2020: Staten Island Hornpipe
Human Fuzzies: folk music, have an mp3 · no comments... directly to Minneapolis and not New York, here's the Staten Island Hornpipe (link expired, sorry), off of Tony Elman's Shakin' Down ...
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24 Jun 2020: Friday Hangover Blogging
Personal: search requests · 4 comments... However, I note in passing that it is fully legal in the state of California to have music playing through one (1) earbud while driving, ...
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22 Jun 2020: Landscape Photography
Links: Yosemite · 4 comments... my favorites are all in the Yosemite section, Castle Rock State Park comes in a close second. Oooh, ...
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20 Jun 2020: Testing the Future
Meta: call for guestbloggers, folk music, have an mp3 · 12 comments... the iTunes iChing predicted would be plenty of hornpipes: Staten Island Hornpipe (3 MB), off of Tony Elman's Shakin' Down the Acorns, ...
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25 May 2020: For the Record
Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... happy to be corrected on this. For the record, let me state that I believe there are lots of sexist fools out there who don't believe ...
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12 May 2020: Happy Juror Appreciation Week
Personal: jury duty, utter glee · 6 comments... But they still picked the jury before I was able to state so much as my place of residence. In other words, the Superior Court's ...
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27 Apr 2020: Defamation in the Congressional Record, hoorah!
Politics: abortion, Congressional shenanigans · 6 comments... drivers from liability for transporting a minor across state lines for medicinal purposes, and rewrite the summary to say the ...
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25 Apr 2020: Feminisms
Politics: feminism, feminisms, ideological boundary police · 4 comments... them; but I try to keep dogma to a minimum. Those two statements are my feminist core: I'm not willing to argue about the truth of ...
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18 Apr 2020: Reading Material
Links: anger, environmentalism, gender, kittens, motherhood, pharmacists, theology · 12 comments... of their gender but also by virtue of their glorious state, the role of mother, which is supposed to be JOY. Right? Unhappy ...
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: For Millennia, Google Has Spoken
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: essay contests, googlefu · 3 comments... intervention for the mental health workforce in the United States. Since the Civil War, the War in the Balkans, and the Caucasus, a ... by classroom teachers in the public schools. A joint Statement of Current Law on the appointment of the new director of the Centre ...
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30 Mar 2020: Pharmaceuticals
Politics: pharmacists · 7 comments... for pharmacists is most of the way down here: Four states already have laws that specifically allow pharmacists to refuse to fill ... for when I get canned: 1. Move to one of these four states. 2. Become pharmacist. 3. Convert to Christian Science. 4. Get paid ...
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: New Athletic Allegiances and the Advanced Study of Mud
Meta, Personal: academia, Announcements · 11 comments... this decision in the hypothetical case of a Stanford-Iowa State playoff. It's a good thing I have a Division III alma mater and don't ...
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22 Mar 2020: Today’s Reading
Links: American history, rhetorical tactics, socks · 5 comments... just the right amount of different. Though most Goldilocks statements pass without comment (they're practically tautologies, after all) ...
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18 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Bishop Tuff
Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 4 comments... exploded - though "exploded" is, if anything, an understatement. This photo was taken 15 miles (25 of your Earth kilometers) away ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... is generally to confuse the University of Iowa with Iowa State. And gaaah! Why don't people on the coasts understand the intricacies of college rivalry in the flyover states?! - but at least no one has asked me about Idaho. More saliently, their ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments... for two years and majored in math, but transferred to cal state long beach and graduated with journalism. Finally, someone recognizes ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments... woman's initiative rather than the relationship. Hugo's statement can easily be rewritten: Most women have abundant experience with ...
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15 Feb 2020: How to Ward Off Rapists
Politics, Whimsy: rape, satire · 7 comments... of Andrea Dworkin. Which in turn reminded me of the sorry state of the common wisdom imparted to women as regards our personal safety: we ...
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14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics
Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 commentsFrom Left2Right to Pharyngula to you and me: High-Speed Plate Tectonics and Young Earth Creationism. Yow! Before we indulge ourselves in pointless nitpicking, let us address one misconception that seems to have come up among even the reality-based particip ...
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7 Feb 2020: Monday Links to Stuff
Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments... more of its young, single, well-educated adults than any state except North Dakota. In search of bigger cities, hipper crowds and warmer ... Iowans flee in such numbers that demographers predict the state will face a drastic labor shortage within two decades. Desperate to ...
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31 Jan 2020: Laziest Entry Ever!
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: legalese, poetry, quizzes · no comments... gentle into that good night, In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree I never saw a purple cow Some say the world will ...
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20 Jan 2020: Fantasy Cabinet
Politics: fantasy politics · 9 comments... she'll have to let me bear her love-child! Secretary of State: Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of the Treasury: Paul Krugman - ...
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10 Jan 2020: The Sheep Are Still Scared
Politics: gender, sexism · 2 comments... blah burble doo. Somewhere in there, the statement "women are attracted to masculine men, men are attracted to feminine ...
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10 Nov 2020: Suckers for Science in the Suburbs
Politics: California ballot propositions, embryonic stem cells, genetic engineering, health care, scientific illiteracy, stem cell research · 5 comments... would have added a modest tax to phone bills to keep the state's endangered emergency rooms and trauma centers from shutting ...
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3 Nov 2020: Back on the Horse
Politics: angst, Internet activism, presidential elections, Ralph Nader, US party politics · 2 comments... as it happened, by our very own newly-re-minted* state senator Jack Scott (who was obviously just kidding). Funny, ha ha, and an ... a precursor to EU II: The New World. Moreover, "states' rights" have historically been less than compatible with individual ...
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2 Nov 2020: Fusion Tickets
Politics: California ballot propositions, California politics, elections, US party politics · no commentsWe've got two pieces of electoral reform brouhaha on our ballots today in California - I voted "no" on both. There's lots of ways in which to reform party primariesm, many are ill-conceived, and manyI haven't heard of. Like Fusion ticketing. I would love t ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... a last-minute vote-swap with a Cobb supporter in a swing state... but I'm sure all such individuals are utterly deluged with calls from ... definitions, I might make up my own invisible swing-state sky-friend and vote Cobb. But even in the heaviest artillery Jesus-fire, ...
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14 Oct 2020: Fuck You Too
Politics: impeach Bush, sexism · 24 comments... cut me off... not goofy U.N. initiatives: The United States has refused to join 85 heads of state and government in signing a statement that endorses a 10-year-old U.N. plan to ensure every woman's right ...
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30 Sep 2020: Debate Livesnarking
Politics: · 2 comments... Indiana are hungry too. 7:27 - Wait, is this a closing statement? The food hasn't even arrived yet! And why didn't Kerry refer to any swing states? 7:22 - In all this talk about Russia, Bush never quite gets around to ...
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15 Sep 2020: California Performance Review for Geologists
Politics: California politics, environmentalism, urban planning · no comments... mostly don't but I'm trying to acquire some): Merge the State Mining and Geology Board with the Board of Geologists and Geophysicists - ... licensing for earth scientists; the SMGB represents the state's interest in geologic hazards, mineral resources, and reclaimed ...
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7 Sep 2020: Happy Arrival Day!
Politics: booze, cultural appropriation, Judaism · 4 comments... the Jewish community and its contributions to the United States. As such, non-Jews as well as Jews are welcome to join in the ... Danish! The only other exception I can think of is some statements to the effect of "on 9/11, we all were Americans" - trinketized ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... also be given "equal time": Learning about the state congressfolk, judges, and county assessors who'll be taking up all that ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... it's not about Federalism and the power of the individual State per se (it may once have been thought of that way, but we're a far more unified United States now than we were 200 years ago), it's about forcing regional majorities ...
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11 Aug 2020: Best Constitutional Amendment EVAR
Politics: · no comments... [of the 21st Amendment] is adopted, it seems that the state government could enslave members of the population and make them drive ... but here on the Federal Democratic Earth of the United States of America, there are terrorists trying to steal our beer. If Arnold ...
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5 Aug 2020: SUVs illegal in Pasadena
Politics: environmentalism, Pasadena, SUVs · 1 commentI'm so writing my city councillors on this one: 3-ton SUVs are illegal in my neighborhood (and others). I'm sure if they tried to enforce the ban, all the Hummer owners would get together and "help" with the City Hall renovations... but hey, an irate citi ...
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26 Jul 2020: Bugs Bunny Goes to Washington
Politics: · 2 comments... says the following: The judicial power of the United States shall extend to all cases presenting federal questions. (Art. III, sec. ... be unconstitutional for the judicial power of the United States not to extend to these cases. The federal judiciary must consist of a ...
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25 Jul 2020: Education Reform Blah Blah
Politics: · 2 comments... mobility (harmonized credential requirements among states, tuition repayment programs without specific residency requirements), ...
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21 Jul 2020: Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the “In Bed” Heuristic
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... nuggets of wisdom. What am I supposed to do with such statements as: "Spending time alone makes one a better companion to ... allotted. Anyway, I've already made a substantial ($120) statement that my attention is worthless in comparison to the judgment of the ...
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25 Jun 2020: Note to the California Legislature: Please Kill More Kitties
Politics: · no comments... lovably zany California state goverment really needs to suck it up and raise taxes, but every so often ... above human welfare. I sent the following note to my state legislators, and fellow California residents are hereby encouraged to do ...
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22 Jun 2020: You Know You’re From Where You’re From When
Whimsy: jokes · 1 comment... and mock it" game. AHEM. Per the rules of the game, statements with a particularly sonorous ring of truth are in bold, and ...
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11 Jun 2020: Water on Black Mesa
Politics: · 4 comments... think. Nevertheless, I'm surprised that there were no statements from the activist with "a Master's degree" on the scientific merits ...
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18 Apr 2020: Meme, I Give In
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: · 5 comments... global nation of the mind! But wait! The stack of bank statements and pay stubs and hair scrunchies and tape also includes my sewing ...
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6 Apr 2020: Watch for Flying Pigs
Politics: · no comments... that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States," Mr. Cheney, who is now vice president, said shortly after introducing ...
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25 Mar 2020: The Neon Leg Warmer of the Caribbean
Politics: Haiti, Somalia, tourism, war · 1 comment... and raped or shot or both. Or perhaps awful is an overstatement; how's about a vacation in Somalia? "Tourists can still go and see ...
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7 Mar 2020: Investing With Your Values
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, investing, money, socially responsible investment · 3 comments... covers mutual funds, special-interest bond funds, real estate investment trusts, annuities, stocks, and asset allocation. With so much ...
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2 Feb 2020: Linky Roundup
Links: · 2 comments... get it to stop recommending programmer food... The U.S. State Department endorses Times New Roman, claiming that it is "clear, crisp ... Courier New! The Bushies lied to us again! Thankfully, State Department telegrams may still be printed in a fixed-width font. How ...
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1 Oct 2020: Gubernatorial Goodies
Human Fuzzies, Politics: · 1 comment... I don't see how a teetotaller can appropriately govern a state with so much wine production... so it's a good thing they're all going to ...
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22 Aug 2020: But You Still Have Two Kidneys, Scott!
Politics: · 2 comments... it's hardly an issue of immediate political need in the state of California. All the serious pundits are talking about the budget, ...
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14 Aug 2020: 135
Politics: · 2 commentsSee the Certified List of Candidates! Ooooh. Aaah. I woke up late last night slash early this morning, believing for a good fifteen seconds that civilization was over. Kaput. Dying a hissing, steaming death like the sounds of distant bombs, ruptured dams, ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... stories to fuel all the high school journalists in the state. In my rational hours, I know we're all just relieved to tell ...
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20 Jun 2020: There Goes My Nose
Personal: · 3 comments... parents are under alien mind control, and I fear for the state of ...
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16 May 2020: Kkore 1: the Stack
Personal: · 4 comments... in that disagreeable state where I need a nap, and I want a nap, but every time I lay down I just ...
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28 Apr 2020: I want my 2 1/2 hours back
Personal: · no comments... exciting afternoon and a good use of $12. Hooray for the state of California and all its squinty ...
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11 Apr 2020: Get Your Imperialism Straight
Politics, Whimsy: Canada, imperialism · 4 comments... arguing about which country gets to be the 51st United State: Iraq? The UK? Germany? What these people are forgetting, of course, is that there are already way more than 50 states. Canada became a State quite a long time ago, possibly even before ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no commentsMy relationship to Hawai'i is clearly doomed to be one of unrequited affection. The island doesn't hate me quite enough to squish me like a bug (though it had several chances) but the flowers made my nose run, the aa ate my feet and the beaches just laughe ...
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5 Mar 2020: Orders of Magnitude
Personal: · 1 comment... there are 6000 funerals a day in the United States, and two people fly to each one, and there are about 500,000 domestic ...
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13 Jan 2020: Nouveau Royalty
Whimsy: · 3 comments... and cranky. Now if only my new kingdom came with an estate, or some nice colonies to ...
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10 Dec 2020: Dilemma
Personal, Politics: · 6 comments... if flying pigs allow us to think nice thoughts about the state of Mississippi, why ...
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1 Dec 2020: oh yeah, thanks
Personal: · 3 comments... I learned once more that California is a really big state that takes a long time to drive through. I am thankful for candy corn, ...
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18 Nov 2020: Coherence is for Chumps
Personal, Whimsy: · 7 comments... have a theory, which I unfortunately must state in the jargon of linear algebra: La Marseillaise, Deutschland Uber Alles, ...
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30 Sep 2020: Tree Punching
Personal, Teaching: academia, course scheduling · 3 comments... time to be determined. The Economic History of the United States - this is the one with the thick stack of handouts. I'm generally in ...
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18 Aug 2020: A Contest-Contest
Aimless: · 15 comments... person. Anyone may enter, but winners outside the United States will receive a smaller, lighter alternative prize, probably a ...
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31 Jul 2020: Someone Wonders
Meta: · 1 comment... Kirk. It's the kind of place that appears in forty states, many of which have no rivers to speak of, but apparently not in Canada. ...
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13 Jun 2020: Spamanography
Uncategorized: guest posts · 1 comment... to park all my cars" ! We are licensed to operate in all states ! We beseech you - act now . Sign up a friend and your friend will be ...
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23 May 2020: Someone Has a Suggestion
Meta: · no commentsI think you should mention on your main page when your photo blog is updated... I always forget to check it! I'll give it a shot, though I'll probably forget too, most of the time. *cough* The photoblog has been updated. While we're on administrative ...
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28 Apr 2020: button bushes
Human Fuzzies: · 4 comments... me, and that's why I wanted to kick them. So in a fugue state I kept saying "I should eat a hamburger, cows always make me feel real ...
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23 Apr 2020: More Decision Theory
Personal: · 6 comments... need to determine how my preferences behave in relation to statements like: If a lottery with a 1/2 chance of winning a monkey and a 1/2 ...
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14 Apr 2020: Tax Time, Fun Time!
Meta: · 2 comments... making the check out to Ariel Sharon instead of the United States government?" "Yeah." In other news, if you just can't get enough of ...
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6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... Act) I love bond issues, because I pay my taxes in the state of Iowa. California bonds are just a chance for me to spend other ...
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5 Feb 2020: Faulty Wiring
Personal: · no comments... horror, etc, etc. Whatever, it's a very disturbing fugue state and will probably be the death of me if I'm ever in a real ...
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4 Feb 2020: drool… bid… drool
Links: menstruation, religion, robots · 1 comment... weekend I've diverted all my wit into simple declarative statements uttered at random or scrawled on the bathroom wall ("The KGB is a ...
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31 Jan 2020: Stupid Economy
Politics: · no comments... Peace Corps service in the next five years. So I read the State of the Union address, without taking any precautionary shots of hard ...
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14 Jan 2020: Goats
Links: · no commentsThere's a classic probability question known as the Monty Hall problem. In its most difficult form, the problem requires that you first decide whether you would rather have a large sum of money, or a goat; this is the form the professor posed to us during ...
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11 Jan 2020: Flamingo Lips
Personal: blue sky, cult movement, embouchure, paying attention, peach, trumpet-playing, writing style · no comments... some point I was vaguely concerned that moving back to the States would make me less exotic and fascinating, thereby causing me to lose ... is a property of one's personality and mental state and writing style, things which are only vaguely influenced by geography. ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Boring State
Personal: amtrak, crap towns, grain elevators, journey west, land of enchantment, salvage yards, trains, travelogue, useless information · no comments... are the only people I've ever seen who refer to all 50 states by their official nicknames. They are forever saying things like Good morning, and welcome to the Golden State! or Gallup will be our last stop in the Land of Enchantment. To a ...
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24 Dec 2020: Tackiest Ever
Politics: · no comments... include requests for turtles, Nintendo products and United States flags in the same endearingly greedy sentence; my neighbor has a ... in our backyard who's not quite convinced that the United States is the greatest country ever, so I'm going to go build a snowman and ...
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24 Nov 2020: I know America
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... up in a place, but I was wrong. I do miss things about the States, and they're popping out of this book, all tangled up with youth and ...
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4 Nov 2020: stop de kriminelle udlændinge
Politics: · 2 comments... polemic, certainly nothing I haven't seen in the States (remember Pete Wilson? everybody loves Pete Wilson) but it does make me ... degenerate sucking off the cream of the Danish welfare state - yeah! I can't wait until the flyers from the Danish People's Party come ...
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29 Oct 2020: HT for kunst
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: art criticism, photography, poststructuralism · no comments... what I'm talking about, for the record, I would like to state the following: the picture on my bus pass is not simply a funny-looking ...
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28 Oct 2020: speakin’ the heathen chinee
Human Fuzzies: globalization · 1 comment... More ethnic food and funny words for me! Meanwhile, back Stateside, I'm rooting for the eventual proliferation of Spanglish, just so my ...
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16 Sep 2020: Salvaged Item #2: a list
Aimless: · no comments... bizarre and subtle drinking competition between the United States and Japan, wherein each country packages surrealism and exports it to ...
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6 Sep 2020: outside my window
Personal, Politics: · no comments... in the top twenty list of military targets in the lower 48 states, these kinds of political realities have never had much of an impact on ... to the next. The lower population density of the United States has a lot to do with this, as does American car culture. As does the ...
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5 Sep 2020: EZ Math
Personal: diary, math · no comments... everything I need during the gaps between non-trivial statements in lecture. It's nice, really, though I suppose my elitism is ...
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4 Sep 2020: train tracks
Human Fuzzies, Personal: concrete walls, graffiti, keyboards, kudzu, post-apocalyptic aesthetic sensibilities, sweetness and light, trains, weeds · no comments... One of the most underestimated features of the United States is the extensive network of gorgeous abandoned rotting railroad ...