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A hot-rodding uncle ensured my early exposure to Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Rat Fink, an “anti-Mickey Mouse” cartoon character of …
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My just-before-bed reading is often one of Nero Wolfe’s mysteries narrated by the great detective’s henchman, Archie.  Last night Archie …
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An FNSB Library Commissioner and I chatted recently, and he asked the meaning of “fungible.”  No one knows every word, …
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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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My partner in life is a confirmed ornithophile, or bird lover, but she appreciates them more than obsesses.  She supports …
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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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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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