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Daily Archive for September 22nd, 2010

Scary Quote of the Night

From Bret Stephens at the WSJ: but my own impression of Ahmadinejad was that he was easily the smartest guy in the room. He mocked us in a way we scarcely had the wit to recognize. We belittle him at our peril.

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Choking on Your Apples

Western, NY has some of the finest farmland in the United States. One reason our family was attracted to the area was the abundance of scenic and productive and tasty and fun farms! However, as nice as the place is physically, the Wesley Mouches of the world are doing their best to see more houses […]

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Better Than Hot-Tub Time Machine

When I graduated from grad school in 2004 and started teaching, I would start classes by showing students just how much oil was “left” for the world to use up.  When I started, there were thought to be 1.265 trillion barrels of oil left. At the world annual rate of consumption at that time (30.08 […]

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