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Those old photos of people looking cool by holding cigarettes casually at waist level meant they weren’t watching them and had them at just the right height to burn little kids on the upper arms as they walked by.
December 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Those old photos of people looking cool by holding cigarettes casually at waist level meant they weren’t watching them and had them at just the right height to burn little kids on the upper arms as they walked by.
My Social Security is going up by a whopping 2.8% as of January. Even if inflation has inched down to 2.7%, I’m going to be losing ground.
December 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My Social Security is going up by a whopping 2.8% as of January. Even if inflation has inched down to 2.7%, I’m going to be losing ground.
Feasterville is a Philadelphia suburb. Hardly the rural Midwest.
December 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Feasterville is a Philadelphia suburb. Hardly the rural Midwest.
My son just got an estimate for a procedure to remove a kidney stone. Would be $37,000 if it weren’t covered by insurance. And that’s a relatively commonplace, non-catastrophic problem.
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My son just got an estimate for a procedure to remove a kidney stone. Would be $37,000 if it weren’t covered by insurance. And that’s a relatively commonplace, non-catastrophic problem.
I also take Eliquis and it doesn’t affect my blood draws.
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I also take Eliquis and it doesn’t affect my blood draws.
I’ve been having blood draws every three weeks to track the effects of chemo and only had a dime-sized bruise once. YMMV.
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I’ve been having blood draws every three weeks to track the effects of chemo and only had a dime-sized bruise once. YMMV.
Not a blood draw. Those typically leave either no bruising or a very small bruised area. It’s infusions, which pump something into your veins, that are more likely to bruise.
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Not a blood draw. Those typically leave either no bruising or a very small bruised area. It’s infusions, which pump something into your veins, that are more likely to bruise.
Rosemary’s Baby.
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Rosemary’s Baby.
I actually have a hardcover copy of this. Our local mad scientist insisted on lending it to my late husband before abruptly leaving town with no forwarding address. But now that it’s a Kindle freebie, it seems less special.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I actually have a hardcover copy of this. Our local mad scientist insisted on lending it to my late husband before abruptly leaving town with no forwarding address. But now that it’s a Kindle freebie, it seems less special.
Inability to read the Declaration of Independence, for one thing.
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Inability to read the Declaration of Independence, for one thing.
I’m glad you’re taking these Golden Age SF writers seriously, but there is more that could be said about Kuttner/Moore. One point is their mutant stories, which lead directly to Marvel’s X-Men. Another is Gallagher who is a low-level computer technician but also a brilliantly disruptive hacker.
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I’m glad you’re taking these Golden Age SF writers seriously, but there is more that could be said about Kuttner/Moore. One point is their mutant stories, which lead directly to Marvel’s X-Men. Another is Gallagher who is a low-level computer technician but also a brilliantly disruptive hacker.
Hi, there. Another UWS kid here, but in the 50s.
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hi, there. Another UWS kid here, but in the 50s.
This resonates with the argument for why the universe cannot be a simulation.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a simulation after all
New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understa...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This resonates with the argument for why the universe cannot be a simulation.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Heinlein is endlessly fascinating because of his internal contradictions — that and his tendency to conceal what he really thought about anything.
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Heinlein is endlessly fascinating because of his internal contradictions — that and his tendency to conceal what he really thought about anything.
The subtitle of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is “the Modern Prometheus.” Sounds about right.
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The subtitle of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is “the Modern Prometheus.” Sounds about right.
When I was a little girl, my mother told me with tears in her eyes about how the Supreme Court struck down the NRA.
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
When I was a little girl, my mother told me with tears in her eyes about how the Supreme Court struck down the NRA.
Anything a cat can play with is a cat toy. That’s the rule.
(It’s also why we keep finding coasters all over the house. And Sharpies, and electronics parts.)
(It’s also why we keep finding coasters all over the house. And Sharpies, and electronics parts.)
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Anything a cat can play with is a cat toy. That’s the rule.
(It’s also why we keep finding coasters all over the house. And Sharpies, and electronics parts.)
(It’s also why we keep finding coasters all over the house. And Sharpies, and electronics parts.)
I’m too old for some of these. Walkmans (Walkmen?) and boomboxes were after my time and VHS tapes were something I let my kids handle.
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’m too old for some of these. Walkmans (Walkmen?) and boomboxes were after my time and VHS tapes were something I let my kids handle.
Mayo Clinic advice when someone faints:
“Position the person on the back. If there are no injuries and the person is breathing, raise the person's legs above heart level if possible. Prop up the person's legs about 12 inches (30 centimeters).”
“Position the person on the back. If there are no injuries and the person is breathing, raise the person's legs above heart level if possible. Prop up the person's legs about 12 inches (30 centimeters).”
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Mayo Clinic advice when someone faints:
“Position the person on the back. If there are no injuries and the person is breathing, raise the person's legs above heart level if possible. Prop up the person's legs about 12 inches (30 centimeters).”
“Position the person on the back. If there are no injuries and the person is breathing, raise the person's legs above heart level if possible. Prop up the person's legs about 12 inches (30 centimeters).”
This was just short of 100 years ago, before we all got stupid.
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This was just short of 100 years ago, before we all got stupid.
I recall a kids’ book about this from the 1950s. No idea of the author or title, but it clearly wasn’t any of those mentioned above.
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I recall a kids’ book about this from the 1950s. No idea of the author or title, but it clearly wasn’t any of those mentioned above.