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Absurdity, Humor, and Faking It
Leave a commentAugust 10, 2020 by libroshombre
Absurdism, according to Webster’s, is “a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless and that …
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Kisses,Cards, and Plagues
Leave a commentAugust 10, 2020 by libroshombre
My partner in life is a confirmed ornithophile, or bird lover, but she appreciates them more than obsesses. She supports …
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Rocket Science and Quackery
Leave a commentAugust 10, 2020 by libroshombre
Reading Ned Rozell’s 2017 Alaska Science article, “How the Cold War Inspired the Poker Flat Rocket Range’s First Launches,” right …
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Masks, Resistance, and Hope
Leave a commentAugust 10, 2020 by libroshombre
Glancing at an article on the best material to make anti-Covid masks from, I saw it was from last April, …
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Earwax, Book Banning, and the Mat-Su School Board
Leave a commentMay 16, 2020 by libroshombre
“Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self-strangulation,” according to life-style philosopher Andrew J. Bernstein. “They not …
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Harry Stuff, Stargazy Pie, and Escapism
Leave a commentMay 16, 2020 by libroshombre
Horror writer maintained that, “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality,” …
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People, Poetry and Powerhouse
Leave a commentApril 12, 2020 by libroshombre
The people at People Magazine want you to know that February 20 is National Hoodie-hoo Day, when everyone should “step …
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Mini-circuses, Mini-tomes, and Mini-libraries
Leave a commentApril 2, 2020 by libroshombre
Playwright Chu-Win observed that “Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings, and every day …
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Murders, Measuers, and MSG
Leave a commentMarch 31, 2020 by libroshombre
Shakespeare wrote in “Titus Andronicus” that “Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,/ Doth burn the heart to cinders where it …
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Tea, Twain, and Tomes
Leave a commentMarch 30, 2020 by libroshombre
One’s personal collection of books, or lack thereof, is often interesting, hence my curiosity about other people’s libraries. Perhaps a …
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