Our Blind Squirrel Congressman Gets It Right

Yesterday morning I woke up to learn that in the dead of night, the House of Representatives passed the health care bill.  This is all the more amazing when you consider that lawmakers aren’t finished writing the bill yet, and they probably haven’t read the 2,000 pages that we know exist (so far).  They basically [...]

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I Have Been in the Penalty Box

I suppose my regular readers want to know where I’ve been.  Would you believe that WordPress, the managers of this website, wouldn’t let me write anything for four days?  They found the links and ad I put up for the new Blastoff Network, and said that’s a no-no.  They didn’t even let me in to [...]

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Erudite Quotes

I tried looking up information on one Boswell D. Rabbitsmith, because he is credited with a long list of witty quotes, statements that seem to require more thinking than most of us do. All I could find was that he is an “erudite scientist” who once said, “I woke up one morning, and all [...]

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Will Global Warming Fears Create a World Government?

Last October 17, Mohammed Nasheed, the president of Maldives, held a meeting underwater.  He and his vice president and Cabinet met at desks in the Indian Ocean, wearing scuba gear.  He did that stunt as a warning of the danger rising sea levels pose to his country.  For those who don’t know where Maldives is, [...]

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The End of Geocities, and Colonel Sanders at the UN

This morning I learned that Yahoo! closed the doors on Geocities, for the last time.  This marks the end of an era in Internet history.  Launched in the mid-1990s, Geocities told web-surfers to “get your free home page,” and it offered 2-3 megabytes of free server space to each person who signed up.  That was [...]

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We Are Wimps

So says Peter McAllister, an Australian anthropologist who just published a book called “Manthropology:  The Science of Inadequate Modern Man.”  According to him, we are far weaker than our ancestors, thanks to the industrial revolution, which allowed so many of us to go through life without exerting ourselves much, and thus took away opportunities to [...]

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Today Our Future Begins

This morning I got an e-mail from Kim Komando announcing that today is an important day, because Microsoft will launch its new operating system, Windows 7.  Kim, I’ve been listening to your radio program for ten years; you’re gorgeous and you always have useful information for those of us who go through life with one [...]

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I’m Now a Twit

No, not this kind of twit.

I’m talking about Twitter, as you might have guessed.  Yesterday I signed up for it, for the same reason that I signed up for Facebook — to spread the word about the upcoming launch of the Blastoff Network.  Leive suggested it, so if this works out for me, she might [...]

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Classy Insults

Here is the newest addition to my Smart Quotes page, on The Xenophile Historian.
Classy Insults
Have you noticed that insults used to require a bit of thought? Maybe it’s because we expect more from educated people. Nowadays most folks just resort to naughty words. Because children may be reading this, I can’t repeat [...]

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The Xenophile Historian Newsletter, #15

Here is a copy of what I just sent out to my e-mail list.
The Xenophile Historian Newsletter, #15
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Greetings once again to all my loyal readers!  Charles Kimball is here, to give you the latest news on my world history website.  Believe it or not, it has been almost a whole year since my [...]

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