We were out celebrating Julian’s birthday last night, so we didn’t watch the Republican debate. I read about the disparagement of New York values by Senator Ted Cruz, and my native Upstate New Yorker blood commenced to boil. First, I don’t want my values conflated with Donald Trump’s. Second, I lived in Dallas for 10 …
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Dec 22
A Few Further Words on Firearms
I wrote the previous post on firearms two weeks ago. In the meantime, I learned details of the event that inspired the post. On December 6, a man who had a long criminal record hijacked a car at gunpoint in downtown Seattle. He led the police on a high-speed chase through several neighborhoods and carjacked a …
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Dec 06
A Few Words on Firearms
I grew up in rural upstate New York. I have family and friends who hunt. They’re proud of their hard-won skills to bag a deer with shotgun, rifle, muzzle-loader, or bow and arrow. (My brother-in-law does the latter two. He actually got a deer during bow season a few years ago.) Sometimes hunting is a …
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Nov 04
The Returns are Coming In
Washington has some quirks to its election system. First, we have a top-two primary. You can vote for anyone regardless of party affiliation. Two Democrats or two Republicans may face off in the general election. Then there are some races where someone from the fringes manages to make it out of the primary. Second, all voting …
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Nov 01
Beautiful Downtown Bothell
We moved to Bothell from Seattle almost three years ago. My first experience of our fair city was when I wrote grants for a now-defunct biotech start-up our first year in Washington. I fell in love with the quaint downtown and the Yakima Fruit Market. The latter reminds me of the fruit stands near my …
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Sep 15
WWMW?
I miss Molly Ivins. Political writing has been much less joyous since she died in 2007. Think of what she’s missed in the last eight years; hence the What Would Molly Write (WWMW) acronym in the title: John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate in 2008. The election and re-election of Barack …
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Aug 06
The Votes Are In…
And there was a whole lot of crack-smoking by those ten candidates in Cleveland, based on their answers. My second hypothesis was correct: The average score for each candidate was closer to 4 on my scale. Nobody had a 1 in his column, and only two candidates uttered anything that merited a 2. Only one …
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Aug 05
The Debate Dance Card
Friends, the die is cast for tomorrow night. Thanks to being on the West Coast, I’ll be at work when the also-ran forum is broadcast. However, I’ll be home for the main event. Here’s my dance card:On the X axis I put the 10 candidates in order of their poll numbers. On the Y axis …
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Jul 30
Applying the Ideal Gas-Bag Law
Friends, the first Republican debate/rugby scrum is next week. This is a perfect opportunity to test the Ideal Gas-Bag Law in action. In case you’ve forgotten, here’s the equation: PV = NRT. P stands for pressure, to increase puny poll numbers or get attention. V stands for venue. N stands for number of cameras and …
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Jul 29
The Ideal Gas-Bag Law
Some of you may remember the Ideal Gas Law equation from your days in general chemistry. Then again, maybe you slept through that class. I’ll refresh your memory: PV = NRT. Research at the Edible Thoughts Laboratory has developed a parallel equation, The Ideal Gas-Bag Law. This explains the state of a gas-bag at any …
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