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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Nations within Nations. Is it true?

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Which of the 11 American nations do you live in? Red states and blue states? Flyover country and the coasts? How simplistic. Colin Wooda...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Are their different "flavors" of capitalism and socialism? What should we choose?

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Is the pope stirring the pot for the communists? In Fiery Speeches, Francis Excoriates Global Capitalism [...] Having returned to his na...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Auroras tonight, and Wednesday?

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Looks like it. This was Iowa from the early morning hours today: Look up! Another solar storm may supercharge auroras Wednesday While ...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Oregon is for Losers?

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This is an unpleasant statistic: Report: Oregon has worst graduation rate in the U.S. A comprehensive U.S. report showed that Oregon n...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

An Embryonic New Turkey?

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Not the bird, but the country. They recently had an election. Before the election, there was this: Why Turkey's election doesn't...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Exactly what’s killing Americans in each of the 50 states, the “most distinctive” causes?

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Death Map: What’s Really Killing Americans Heart disease and cancer are the most common killers in the United States but a new map sheds...
Friday, May 08, 2015

Elon Musk makes the Future Happen

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Has the future finally arrived? I hope so: Tesla's Elon Musk Unveils Solar Batteries for Homes and Small Businesses The system could ...

I agree with President Obama...

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...about this Nike thing: As Obama Visits Portland, Trade Deal Divides Liberal Community As President Barack Obama visited Nike's hea...
Friday, May 01, 2015

Underwater volcano active off Oregon coast

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A volcano may be erupting off the Oregon coast, scientists say Three hundred miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, the seafloor has been...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

"The Clintons are counting on America to digest their ethical lapses the way a python swallows a goat" Will we?

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Hillary’s Cynical Song of Self Recently I wrote a column about Hillary Clinton’s method of lying: bald deceit sold to liberals with a wink...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Bird-flu in the USA

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U.S. Bird Flu Outbreak Hits Millions of Iowa Egg-Laying Hens Many of the 3.8 million egg-laying hens in an Iowa flock probably have bird fl...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Do we live in the "Post-Truth Era?"

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It's a good question. The first article explains why the shooting of Walter Scott was a crime, and the wealth of evidence that supports...
Thursday, April 02, 2015

Bee Keeping; not something to rush into

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I know someone who said they could get honey bees for us. But I have to decide by tomorrow, and then the bees arrive 10 days later. So I h...

"The Alchemist" and "The Pilgrimage"; are they books for self-abosorbed Yuppies?

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I recently read those two books, then came across this article in the New Yorker, about the author, Paulo Coelho. It's long, but an int...

Both conservatives and liberals aren’t being straight about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

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Everybody's Lost Their Goddamn Mind Over Religious Freedom You want to know the weirdest thing about the fight over Indiana’s state-le...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

The "monstrous" spawn of radio crystals?

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Everything old is new again: An Old-School Crystal Radio That Broadcasts High-Tech News A crystal radio set is almost like magic. Sound a...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

A new type of power grid

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Why Tesla's battery for your home should terrify utilities Elon Musk's electricity empire could mean a new type of power grid [.....

Let the government do your voting for you

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Oregon: Voter Registration Made Automatic Seventeen years after Oregon decided to become the first state to hold all elections with mail-in...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

Google's Redesign of it's Headquarters

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It looks like a "Future World" theme park: Google's future campus looks like a sci-fi utopia Google has revealed eye-pop...

Sunday Funnies 03/15/15

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Islamic Holdem'