Common Sense and Wonder

A blog dedicated to common sense in practical and political matters combined with a sense of wonder of the world around us and the amazing rate of technological change and we try to do it all with our senses of humor intact. Skeptics and cynics especially welcome.

Thursday, June 05, 2003

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Today is our one-year blogaversary. Max and I began posting on June 5th, 2002. In honor of the event we are moving to off blogspot and onto ...
Wednesday, June 04, 2003

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Carnival of the Vanities is up at Drumwaster's Rants .

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Dallas Fed President, Robert McTeer, sings the praises of the dismal science and it's practitioners and suggests better economic educa...

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Duane D. Freese has some fun at the expense of the anti-obesity zealots and the trial lawyers who support them. So, what are we to do ab...
Tuesday, June 03, 2003

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Rev. Ken Joseph says that most Iraqis welcome the US presence and want US forces to stay. BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 2 (UPI) -- It is dusk in B...

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The Chronicle of Higher Education has a short guide to scholars who blog, many of whom you can find on our blogroll.

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Dennis Prager has a good piece on how lawyers have turned our legal system into a nightmare. I must admit I am rather torn by this issue, o...

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Now this is something we can never have enough of. Apparently there is a 'new' kind of orgasm, dubbed the 'trigasm' by sexo...
Monday, June 02, 2003

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Mark Steyn reports from Iraq. I've spent the past couple of weeks on a motoring tour of western and northern Iraq, and I can't r...

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Cool. Spiderman gloves . Researchers at the University of Manchester say they have cracked the secret of one of the reptile world's g...

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The WSJ reprints two superb Peter Drucker columns from 1976. With the incredible changes in the world over the last quarter century, it...

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Sunday, June 01, 2003

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You are 59% geek You are a geek. Good for you! Considering the endless complexity of the universe, as well as whatever discipline you happe...
Friday, May 30, 2003

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Rep. Kucinich Mr. Spock Separated at Birth

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Apparently, not only can you not defend yourself with a gun in England, but you can't defend yourself with pepper spray either, as a wh...

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Robert L. Pollock has a short vignette of life in postwar Iraq. Among the thousands of friends and relatives who have come to this mass ...

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You are Morpheus, from "The Matrix." You have strong faith in yourself and those around you. A true leader, you are relentless in ...

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Keith Windschuttle has a detailed dissection of Noam Chomsky in the New Criterion (Warning: it's a long piece). For those unfamiliar wi...

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John Cole at BalloonJuice posts this challenge from Kevin Drum at CalPundit: Of course, Sullivan joins the chorus of those who say that ...

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You are Neo, from "The Matrix." You display a perfect fusion of heroism and compassion. What Matrix Persona Are You? brought to...
Thursday, May 29, 2003

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I wonder how I've missed getting a subscription to this magazine . Be sure to check out the Great Moments in the History of Hooch which...

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David Pogue asks 'Why hasn't the digital video recorder become the must-have, smash-hit, world-changing appliance of the digital ag...

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Nat Hentoff adds his support for the posthumous pardon of Lenny Bruce's 1964 NY obscenity conviction.

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Somehow this doesn't strike me as a good idea...there is a "Lord of the Rings" musical being planned for the London stage.
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