Saturday, August 29, 2015

Superheroes

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Longtime readers of this, the second best blog called Measure of Doubt will have picked up on the fact that your noble is author is slightly...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Flags

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Much brouhaha in the United States right now over the Confederate flag — more properly the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia — an...
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Friday, May 29, 2015

Dogfights

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Saturday, October 28th was the second consecutive day of high winds, rain, and heavy cloud, dreadful weather that grounded much of the RFC ...
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Friday, April 10, 2015

Excerpts

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On the 14th of March 1917, Eddie McKay departed 24 Squadron for the last time. The squadron’s aerodromes had been his home and its pilots ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Tennis

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Hi, I’m offering tennis lessons, at a big tennis facility. They cost $7271.93.  I know that sounds like a lot, but, consider the following...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Walking

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High-fives all around, humanity. You’re familiar, of course, with the terrible story of James Robertson , the Detroit man who walks over...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Addresses

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My fellow Americans. I did not write these words. They were written for me by a team of professional speech-writers. They were tested befor...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

#JeSuisCharlie

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Feeling more aggrieved than usual, your unbending author interrupts regularly scheduled programing to clear his throat in defense of civi...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015

Tourism

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OK. I want to see places where I don’t already live. See the problem?  To listen to some people, you’d thing that being a tourist was some ...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Syllabi

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Note: today's column is an actual syllabus that seems to have fallen through a crack between the universes. It comes from what appears...
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Monday, November 24, 2014

Templates

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School sucks, and so it shouldn’t surprise us that the mere mention of teachers or schools in an on-line article brings out a torrent of s...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Addendum

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N ews this morning that the Legion in Kenora, Ontario, fired its chaplain because she criticized cuts to veterans' care during her ...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

Remembering

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I don’t want to trust a seventeen year old memory very far, but I think it went something like this. I was watching a debate on CBC or CT...
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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Disengagement

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A Parable. Meet Jane Doe, a second year English and History major at a mid-sized university in Canada. Jane has just turned ninetee...
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