Thursday, June 29, 2017

SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN

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Canon exists. Once you stray from canon, you go from a slippery slope to a  reductio ad absurdum in which all you have is an em...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Tarzan, the Amazons, and my Mother

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Public education ain’t what it used to be.  It is a law of economics that collectivism is inefficient, an entropic downward path. So, it is...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Fools, Cowards, and Thucydides

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The Internet assures that misattributions will always remain a problem.  “A nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and ...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

President Trump's Foreign Emoluments

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The news squall about President Trump's “emoluments” from foreign governments is at once amusing and interesting to consider.    Two sui...
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Sunday, June 11, 2017

Crimes Against Logic: Exposing Bogus Arguments

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The author calls this “a troubleshooting guide” similar to the owner’s manual of a car or computer. “It is aimed at everyday users and cons...
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Saturday, June 3, 2017

From Joint Force to Unified Command

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No one asked me, but I believe that eventually the armed forces of the United States will become a single entity. Different services from t...
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Friday, June 2, 2017

The Purse of Eratosthenes

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For about 10 years in the 1990s, I worked on assembling a collection of ancient coins worth about a day's wages from the towns and times...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Crimes of Conscience: Antigone and Stealing from the Public Library

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The libraries at the University of Texas at Austin shelve 83 volumes by Ayn Rand. Of them, 30 have been stolen. Of those, eight are marked ...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

TDEM 2017 Texas Emergency Management Conference

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Laurel and I attended the 2017 Texas Department of Public Safety Division of Emergency Management annual conference in San Antonio. Although...