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By admin, 14 June, 2022

Ben's 2016 Facebook quips

If I were a right-wing conspiracy theorist, I would think that the reason the Democrats are allowing the Trump presidency farce to play out is so that all the white supremacists and misogynists feel comfortable identifying themselves on social media, in order to compile a registry of such people for use after Clinton takes office. Because otherwise I would have to admit that I was totally dead wrong about Obama's motives for the last 8 years, and that would be awkward.Mining ever closer to the present...

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By admin, 14 May, 2022

Beyond Evolution

When I finished reading The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow, I immediately started reading it a second time. I can count on one hand the number of times I've immediately reread a book, and two of them were on similar topics, so before I tell you what I thought of the new book, I'll tell you about the other two so we can see how they relate.

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By admin, 28 April, 2022

Ben's 2015 Facebook quips

Continuing on towards the present:

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By Ben, 28 March, 2022

Ben's 2014 Facebook quips

mining progressively closer to the surface:

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By admin, 24 February, 2022

Ben's 2013 Facebook quips

More stuff worth saving from a sinking ship:

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By admin, 26 January, 2022

Ben's 2012 Facebook quips

Continuing to mine the past for what's worth keeping:

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By admin, 20 January, 2022

Newyearsletter 2022

Here is our annual roundup of the past year, in words and in pictures.

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By Ben, 2 January, 2022

Ben's 2011 Facebook quips

continuing to mine the past for stuff worth keeping...

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By Ben, 22 November, 2021

Why You and Your Kids Should Read Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When I was in school, I frequently asked my parents for recommendations of what to read for book reports. They had an extensive collection of classic speculative fiction, so I read famous titles including The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis; The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, and War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells; Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell; The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.

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By Ben, 12 November, 2021

Lessons from our first electric road trip

The weekend of November 5, 2021, Jessie and I made our first overnight trip in our 2018 Nissan Leaf SV. The car has a theoretical range of about 120 miles, but the highway route from Omaha to Topeka is 162 miles. There's a rapid charger in Auburn, Nebraska, and we figured if we were lucky we could make just one stop, but if we ran short of range, there were a couple other, slower chargers we could visit. Here's what we learned:

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