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Across Difficult Country: October 2014
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Isolate Ebola cases on a tiki-themed party barge floating five to ten miles offshore; staff the party barge with RI-MANs. Deliver supplies by drone. This will contain the spread of infection and provide a festive environment in which to die a horrible death. (If you’re wondering why I haven’t mentioned restricting travel from Africa it’s because I’m focused on realistic solutions.). Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Boy's Own Paper. Le Cinéma du Journal. Theres a vampire moon.
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Across Difficult Country: Progress in the UK
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Progress in the UK. The UK Green party wants to give rodents human rights. If the Greenies’ plan is enacted, then cats who kill mice would be charged with murder, creating a market for feline-defense lawyers, which would benefit the economy (if one believes the logic of Prof. Paul Kroogman et al.). Surely at some point Glasgow U. would rename a building. After Ratty the Water Rat. I imagine many other ridiculous things happening as well, they always do. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Across Difficult Country: June 2014
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I've added Pepper, Softbank’s new “humanoid” robot. To my list of enemies; partly because he’s a charlatan who pretends to understand human emotions, but mostly because of his hideous foot. In the event Pepper approaches me or intrudes on my personal space I will, in all likelihood, roundhouse kick him, and this notice releases me from any ensuing legal liability. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Boy's Own Paper. Le Cinéma du Journal. Theres a vampire moon.
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Across Difficult Country: Slow News Day
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A reader named Garland forwards an incredible story from Uganda. In a bizarre incident in Nebbi district, a policeman says he was attacked by an aggressive tortoise at his home. Drawing reference from his experience, the policeman advised people to always be on the look-out for any kind of danger. After Onegiu had killed the tortoise, a group of people belonging to the Charismatic faith prayed for him, before burning the dead reptile to ashes. BBC News From Elsewhere updates for this fast moving story.
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Across Difficult Country: December 2014
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A Handbook of Greek Mythology. By HJ Rose. A scholarly and wide ranging overview, concisely and skillfully written. Do professors like Rose still exist? Kill or Get Killed. By Col. Rex Applegate. The classic guide to "riot control techniques, manhandling, and close combat". Full of information I look forward to applying in 2015. Lord Byron’s Foot. By George Green. His poems are funny, he’s the contemporary master of ekphrasis, his references range from Pindar to David Lee Roth. The History of Atlantis.
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Across Difficult Country: April 2015
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Who was it who said the definition of serendipity is shooting an armadillo and having the bullet ricochet and hit your mother-in-law? Because that happened in Georgia. It’s been almost a year and the grills are still missing. A half-human, half-chimp humanzee was created in a Nigerian laboratory, reports Humphrey Nakonde. The creature talks and, sadly, has already contracted AIDS. There are so many wonderful things being invented in Siberia right now. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Across Difficult Country: May 2015
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A pair of tortoises set fire to a home in Fordingbridge, the Salisbury Journal reports. Remember how we all laughed at the Ugandan policeman who shot and killed a fleeing tortoise. After it aggressively and violently chased him? Maybe we owe him an apology. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Boy's Own Paper. Le Cinéma du Journal. Theres a vampire moon. 169; C. Van Carter. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Across Difficult Country: November 2014
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Last week bandits in Guinea stole vials of Ebola infected blood. Were I not preoccupied with a multitude of existing charity efforts I would create and distribute an infographic illustrating items Guinean bandits should steal (cash, jewels, gold bars, etc.), and items Guinean bandits should not steal (old couches, gum wrappers, rocks, vials of Ebola infected blood, etc.). Links to this post. Clanging Chimes of Doom. Links to this post. No Word Back Yet. The Ferguson verdict to be announced soon. Board of...
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Across Difficult Country: Progress in Scotland
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Campus buildings named after Adam Smith, James Watt, and various other inconsequential “dead white men” will be renamed after women and blacks, Glasgow University has announced. I don’t know who they will honor, but one deserving black did occur to me: Cotton Watts, a comedic genius some believe is one of James Watt’s distant descendants. Finding that evidence is a struggle. It’s almost as if it doesn't exist. I hate to be pedantic, he lied, but surely Chick is the white female of the duo?
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Across Difficult Country: January 2015
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Who believe we are closer to doomsday have reset the Doomsday Clock to Three Minutes till Doom. After learning from a television commercial. That people are smearing themselves with grease made from melted-down flightless birds, I wonder if we haven’t passed the Point of Doom already and didn't notice. Links to this post. Many believe the robot holocaust has begun after a giant robot savagely attacked a gathering of bus aficionados in Whitby. Links to this post. Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics.
