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How Rumors Get Started
200 years from now fiction might be viewed as fact
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“Rumors of My Death…”
Have you ever made the mistake of clicking on one of those sponsored ads on Facebook? Someone famous is dead, or has gotten remarried to someone else famous, or is crying, or has ruined his or her reputation, or has had a shocking secret revealed. When you click on it, you get an ad for…
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The Nullarbor Nymph
It’s funny what you can come across on the internet when you go from link to link, allowing the cyber highway to take you where it will. It’s even funnier, apparently, what capers you can come up with when you are sitting in a hotel bar in a little town, population 8, in the back…
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Political Pomposity
Well, it’s official. Global warming is not a hoax. So says the senate. So say we all. What a relief. Before they made their pronouncement, none of us could be sure. Pffft. An even bigger relief (not) is that they voted that human activity has not impacted climate change. Yay! We can all keep our…
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Taking the Willy Pepper Challenge
Blogging is challenging sometimes. So is nature. So when you combine blogging with nature, you really come up against it, so to speak. The other day I came across the picture below and after making sure it wasn’t some cruel hoax, my first thought, as is often the case these days, is that this would…
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It’s Sunday. I get it.
Hardly anyone reads this blog on Sunday. I don’t take it personally. People have lives, after all. Either they’re busy recovering from Saturday night, or they are engaged in spiritual pursuits, or this is the day to go over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house. So I hereby give you permission to…