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When you can't afford onions 27 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
People can put up with quite a bit, and while annoying, if some non-necessity or luxury item is beyond your means, well, you wait or change your mind and generally endure. But when you cannot afford ...
Everything as usual 27 Aug 2013 | 03:11 am
Let's see. TPP is too much of a mother hen; TPP doesn't give enough instructions. One week into a two week lesson, and two out of 24 people have uploaded material. A mother hen warning was delivere...
How to bring me down 24 Aug 2013 | 09:06 pm
A beautiful, although dry, Saturday is happening outside. What could possibly bum me out so bad? It's been quite a long time since TPP thought about any of this, but a review of the new book "Kill an...
First in freedom - tops in voter suppression 23 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm
The first in freedom state has been making news for now being tops in voter suppression, and it's not just racial minorities who are the target! Now funny things happen when you plop a university dow...
On the sunny side of the street - the problem with monocultures 23 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
Three years ago three large white ash trees lined the street in front of my house and my neighbors spaced about 60 feet apart (all over 3 foot diameter trunks). The city just removed the last one; it...
National Rum Day 23 Aug 2013 | 12:50 am
How could TPP have missed this? Somehow, somebody, somebody probably named Bacardi, or Jack Sparrow, named August 16th National Rum Day. What nation? Puerto Rico? Jamaica? Dominica? In honor of ...
Stuff you never think about - Gum Arabic 22 Aug 2013 | 01:50 am
You've probably never ever thought about gum arabic, so it was quite a surprise to TPP, who teaches about plant products like gum arabic, to find such a good article on the subject (The Guardian). It...
How-to lesson on climate denialism - USA Senate version 21 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
One of the big worries in science is interpreting the facts correctly, and if you don't you look stupid, so most scientists are really, really careful about making very solid interpretations. Now the...
cutting the environmental deficit 21 Aug 2013 | 02:40 am
The GnOPe "conservatives" of the USA embrace two diametrically opposing ideas: governments must live within their means, and only in this way can deficits be cut and eliminated, and under no means sho...
Spooks are spooky 20 Aug 2013 | 01:43 am
Here's a news item about the "chance" detainment of a partner of a journalist, a clear misuse of an anti-terrorism law whose name is Miranda. Ironic, no? You see this is the problem with spooks; they...
