Where is today’s Foster Brooks?

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An America without a Foster Brooks is a sad, sad place.

If only more of you damn women would read this…

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Now, there’s a face. But she wrote useful things! Go forth and learn! Literature clubs are evil!

Is there nothing beer will not influence us to do?

Makes you wonder whether the Vikings missed an efficent opportunity.

The wonderful people at Reuters bring us news of a brilliant money-making venture in the city of Amsterdam. It seems a clever inhabitant has built …

Urban Renewal

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We live in a time of obsessive safety. Every item for sale in this great land is scrutinized from front to back, top to bottom, …

Les Paul

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Les Paul died recently. While most currently known for his eponymous guitar models from Gibson and Epiphone, he was quite a popular musician in his …

Death of the Stork, Birth of the Unseen Menace

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The Times relayed to us this week the tale of new findings from space nonsense. NASA scientists, apparently having nothing better to do with their …

At least Narcissus Stayed Quietly at the Lake

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As you are probably well aware this marks the fortieth anniversary of the Woodstock music festival. Half a million petulant children, schedules clear of any …

Wonder what their hedge fund plans looked like?

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A bit of a difference from today’s spend, spend, spend or we DIE!

The Beauty of the Twelve-point Socket

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A terrible scourge has infected our mechanical design culture. Its name is tool-less fastening. One will find the droppings of this is the craze emblazoned …

Killing Bambi.

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Overblown story of the week. So, an old lady beat a fawn to death with a shovel. She did this either because she was frightened …

Soul stealing devices indeed!

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While the Gaia-über-alles set screams for a carbon tax, they miss the largest cost to society. Simply put the cost of photographic technology is too …

A Picture Needing No Explanation

Felix on the Bat