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Local Treasure
There hasn’t been a blog entry the last couple of weeks because I didn’t have any musings I thought anyone else might find interesting. However, yesterday I read an article on the town of Allensworth, in Tulare County, which I’ve ...
Mystery Solved!
Everyone knows the old cliché about socks disappearing in the wash. I think I’ve solved it. I was scraping the bottom of the sock drawer this week and checked the free-range sock basket in our laundry room trying to make a pair. There were 23 ...
2018 Darwin Awards (Part 1)
It’s that time of year again, when people from around the globe are awarded (posthumously) the dreaded Darwin awards for demonstrating that natural selection is alive and well in the human world. Here are some examples: (November 14, 2018, ...
Crazy Cases
Every year there are a couple of crazy cases that highlight why people don’t like lawyers. Here are a couple of my favorites: Donald Nixon — who is legally blind — filed a lawsuit against Playboy claiming that it was in ...
Off the Wall Musings
There’s been so much press about the “the Wall” but the commentary has been somewhat limited. A lot of things I’m interested in haven’t even been addressed. For example: Will the Wall be visible from space? What about the ...