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I am the topic of an article published on the website “Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis,” or “CAMERA.” The headline reads: “Washington and Lee Professor Spreads Big Lies in Small Town Paper.” It references my...
View of the Northern Sky as seen from Adelaide at astronomical twilight(90 minutes before Sunrise) on August 11 showing the location of comet 220P McNaught (red cross). Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia 90 minutes before...
The Obama Tan Suit. I hate the fact that Obama continued to support the Israelis and wasn’t different in this regard, but man do I miss the guy. Naturally funny and a great orator. This was on point.
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Young Edmund Mortimer, who was the heir-presumptive of Richard II with the strongest claim to the throne of England, was being raised by the usurper Henry Bolingbroke, now King Henry IV. Edmund's uncle, Sir Edmund Mortimer, in 1402...
I thought I'd do a little post dedicated to Ranni, as it's been a while since I've done one that's solely about her. Here she is, sleepy in her favorite spot, the futon in my office: She has grown to have a full and distinct personality....
As I’ve noted in the past, memory is a tricky thing. For example, there’s a panel that’s lived in my head for decades. To the extent I can with my largely aphantasic mind, I’ve pictured it a certain way, even as I couldn’t recall the...
Quiet is the sound of a rainbow trout in a bankside lie slurping mayflies from the film; it’s the bay of a lone beagle on 6 million acres of wild America and the whoosh of a merganser’s rise from the fog; it’s the ache in your body, the...
I’ve been thinking a lot about drought. And fire. And rabid animals. Yeah, I’m fun at parties. There’s been a spate of rabid beavers. This alarms me, as even not-rabid beavers are nothing to trifle with. I saw a video of a guy pulling a...
[Getting rid of both ads and the structures they lived on is a real win.] Here’s a nice contrast against BMW’s recent misconduct. Since the mid-2010s, the French city of Grenoble been working to reduce visual pollution by removing...
Hi all, You may have noticed my Counter Craft posts have slowed a little the last couple of months. That is because I’ve been furiously revising my forthcoming horror novel Haunted Hills. I’m going to write a little about revision today...
I asked MS Copilot: It returned a list of products. The first 7 were sensible choices, including my own table planning app, PerfectTablePlan. But there were a couple in the list that I didn’t recognise: I clicked through to the web page...
Even if I’ve reviewed a product before, I like to return to it every few years if the company keeps it in the lineup. It doesn’t have to be changed much, if at all, but I do want to see if anything is different as the product matures....
Roddy McDowall in Evil Under the Sun (1982) Vitals Roddy McDowall as Rex Brewster, flamboyant gossip columnist Adriatic Sea, Summer 1939 Film: Evil Under the Sun Release Date: March 5, 1982 Director: Guy Hamilton Costume Designer:...
Taking a pause from our usual game as Josh was off on vacation, Lanse offered to run Beetle Knight, an RPG based kinda on the setting of the Hollow Knight video game (of which I know very little) but basically you play bug knights on...