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National Oil Reserves

May 6, 2009
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Original email to Jazmen 4/25/06 I can’t believe what I read yesterday.  Bush is suspending the practice of setting aside oil for our national emergency reserves AND relaxing environmental laws so that gas prices won’t climb so high (he claims). Here’s what logic says.  The national emergency reserves are just that, for emergencies.  Currently,...

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Man vs Machine, while God is Watching

May 6, 2009
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Original email to jazmen 5/5/2006. Artificial brains, with artificial intelligence: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=53406 To put in proper perspective, the human brain has roughly 100 Billion neurons at its disposal: http://staff.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html How much further into the future before you think an electronic brain will match our own? Science fiction has always pondered the blessings and disasters of...

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The Sled Dog Trainer and the Voodoo Lady

May 6, 2009
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Original email reply to Chad Twedt 7/26/2005 Let me shorten all this down to a simpler analogy. Imagine that the Architect is a dog trainer, responsible for training sled dogs to carry medical supplies to vast wastelands.  Most dogs make the journey, some don’t.  And it’s not the environmental or medical factors that are...

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An Annual Pandemic?

May 5, 2009
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An Annual Pandemic?

I was perusing the web looking for some graphics to lace a few of my latest entries, when I came across a very interesting article about the (human) influenza virus. It had been thought before that the virus lays dormant in the off-season, and then something triggers it within a few of us and...

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

May 4, 2009
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Despite all of our technological wonders, we still lack foresight and appreciation. Somehow, strains of human, avian and swine influenza virii managed to hybridized in a live host and escape.  Within barely a couple of weeks, we proclaim it’s a dud and complain that the powers-that-be overreacted. Because only so little actually died. Considering...

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Slaves to the Shareholders

April 24, 2009
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Capitalist Imperial Pigs.  As American as apple pie and Black Friday. When our previous president told us to “spend, spend, spend!” to save our economy, we blindly, fervently obeyed. When our current president asks us to “invest, sacrafice, contribute” to save our nation, we bemoan how unfair and expensive the bailouts are. Capitalism only...

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