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On treating a President like Royalty

George Bush keeps forgetting that he only gets to live for a little while in the White House, and that he’s not the permanent occupant.  There’s an excellent essay about our schizophrenic behavior towards our […]
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Lawn sign spotted yesterday

“Stop the war against…”, and then in a white square apparently pasted over something else, “whoever is next.”via email from Bob Savage, Thr, 03 Jul 2008 11:44:26 -0700
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Food for thought

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class.  One day while the class was in the lab, the Prof noticed one young man, an exchange student, […]
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Are you smarter than an eighth grader?

Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education?  Well, check this out.  Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?This is the eighth grade final exam […]
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Put your utility company on a diet

If you were wondering how much it’s costing you to run your TV when it looks like it’s off, you can use an energy meter to watch the idle consumption.  A condition sometimes called, “vampire […]