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Reincarnating Government
In one of the more peculiar recent news stories, the Chinese government is setting the procedure for Tibetan Buddhist monks to reincarnate. The background for this is of course a forward looking attempt by the Chinese government to silence the future Dalai Lama. The Chinese government is presumably trying to avoid the confusion over the…
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Ragmop
In the mid-90s Rob Walton wrote and self-published a very strange and funny comic book series called Ragmop. Sales apparently weren’t that great, and he cancelled it after (I think) ten issues. Recently he finished the storyline, and updated it for for 2006, and published the complete story in a book. It’s not possible to…
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Just Terrorism?
Back in August I wrote about the idea that in a democracy we all share responsibility for the actions of our government. Frank, one of my three loyal readers (and I do appreciate all of you), commented that this was a good way to rationalize to terrorism, and I agreed. Frank replied again to say…
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Tax Refunds
One thing Hofstadter discusses is reasons to be irrational. I was recently thinking about this in the context of tax refunds. In the U.S., if you underpay your taxes during the year by less than $1000 or so, you can just pay the difference on April 15 and all is well. (The total amount you…
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I Am a Normal Loop
There is nothing here about linkers! OK, there is one thing: at some point, I hope soon, I will pull the linker postings together into an essay posted with my other essays (which I wrote before starting this blog). I’ll mention it here when I do that. Now back to my previously scheduled blog, which…