Author Archives: Alaska

Unintended Consequences

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Alaska

While visiting relatives last week in California’s poverty-stricken Central Valley, my wife learned that one of her sisters, gainfully employed but still poor enough to have gone without health insurance for many years, checked out Covered California and found she … Continue reading →

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Oh No You Didn’t

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Alaska

In this asshole’s formulation, healthy people are “genetic lottery winners” who supposedly benefited from health-care pricing “discrimination” against, you know, sick people — all of which Obamacare rectifies, you see. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Securitized Rent

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Alaska

This ain’t gonna end well. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Bigfoot DNA Proof?

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Alaska

Or just another hour-long Al Capone’s Vault-style ad-selling hypefest? Interesting. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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This Three-Pipe Problem Needs More Bacon

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Alaska

Now this is a Sherlock Holmes medical pastiche I can get behind, as I cheerfully and with renewed confidence light up my pipe and chew on some delicious bacon, unafraid of heart attack.Lots of very intriguing things being proposed to … Continue reading →

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Roman Germ Theory

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Alaska

I’ve been enjoying my old professor’s The Swerve, which inter alia really drives home how little there was of ancient literature that survived to be “discovered” later. George Cochran, whose 10,000 Year Explosion with Henry Harpending is utterly fascinating and … Continue reading →

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Western Movie Symmetry: Max vs. Ringo

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Alaska

The first time I saw Gibson’s entrance (at 01:29 above) in Mad Max, I immediately thought of John Wayne’s entrance in Stagecoach all the way back in 1939 (at 00:15 of the below). They even look a bit alike….

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Have I Got a Job for You!

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Alaska

Evidently one can do this to an SKS and clear $1k. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

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Whisky-Fed Salmon

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Alaska

Those crazy Scots, it just might work! – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Friday Fiction: The Hands of Mr. Ottermole

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Alaska

By the whim of one man with a pair of hands, the structure and tenor of their daily life were shaken, as they can always be shaken by any man contemptuous of humanity and fearless of its laws. They began … Continue reading →

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