Yearly Archives: 2003

Burning Down the House

The citizens of San Diego stuck to their anti-tax guns even while those damned liberal fire fighters spent decades warning them of massive impending brush fires Officials often ignored warnings on San Diego fire danger SAN DIEGO – Fire officials … Continue reading

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Mind Power

Over the last few months of non-blogging, one post has continued to gather comments — this post from July about a craig’s list want ad for someone with telepathic powers. So far about six or seven desperate seekers have left … Continue reading

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Revision

Among the reasons I started writing in this medium was so I could have some forum to vent my rage and confusion, particularly in the wake of a “preemptive” American war. It gave me some way to argue with the … Continue reading

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ZOTA: Explanations are in Order

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Doublethink

At his semi-annual pre-vacation press conference, Bush gave an explanation for the bad economy that I least expected to hear: It’s not a very conducive environment for risk taking when people hear “march to war” all the time. This is … Continue reading

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Dirt

hivelogic You could feel small things moving, sliding past your fingers beneath the surface. Drawing your hand back for examination, you noted numerous species of insect crawling upon and investigation your hand and arm. Small creatures with pincers on both … Continue reading

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Voting

I entered the Truth Laid Bear new weblog showcase. Anyone in the ecosystem can vote for zota by linking to this post . And I get to vote for my three favorites: The S-Train Canvass – Haters, the whole lot … Continue reading

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Alien Drawings by Children

The same person also has a site on how to build your own thought screen helmet. (There’re not made of aluminum foil — it’s 6 mil Velostat.)

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Bivariant Correllations do not equal Causality

Chris Lawrence — “a libertarian political scientist wanna-be” — withheld judgement about the Jost study of conservative psychology [discussed here] until actually reading it. Then he declared it a pile of crap, largely on a variety of methodological points. Fair … Continue reading

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Mistranslation

Guardian: Fifteen minutes later, a Toyota Corona being driven by a man called Mazin, who was disabled and walked with the aid of a frame, arrived in the area. His wife was in the passenger seat and his teenage son … Continue reading

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