Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Day Off

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     I need some downtime. This old age stuff is wearing. Back tomorrow, I hope. Meanwhile, pray for Scott Adams: that he depart peacefully...
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Monday, January 12, 2026

This Greenland Thing

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     Greenland in the news! Contention over Greenland! NATO roiled by tensions over Greenland! War threatens! Film at eleven!      I know, ...
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Sunday, January 11, 2026

The Baptism Of Jesus

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     According to Matthew the Evangelist:      Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad h...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

What Is "The Law Of Nations?"

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     This piece and the many others that have been written since American forces deposed Nicolas Maduro have excited questions about “inter...
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Friday, January 9, 2026

Design To Function

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     I’ve done several kinds of design. They all have unique requirements and constraints. But they share a single universal imperative: the...
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Thursday, January 8, 2026

Sententious Sentiment About Sentience

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     Forgive me for the title, Gentle Reader. It was an opportunity I couldn’t allow to pass. But here I am digressing before I’ve even begu...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

The State And I

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     “I don't mean that a business politician won't steal; stealing is his business. But all politicians are nonproductive. The only...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Things That Last And Things That Don’t

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     I tire more easily these days than when I was younger. That’s to be expected of an aging body, of course. I certainly expected it. What...
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Monday, January 5, 2026

Unkillable

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     It’s been said innumerable times that “you can’t kill an idea.” It’s true, even if the notion of “killing” is only metaphorically appli...
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Conversations

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     Today’s showers are usually equipped with mixing valves attached to a single-lever control. The user moves the lever to set the flow of...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

For Epiphany

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     Yes, yes, I know: traditionally the Feast of Epiphany is celebrated on January 6. Nevertheless, the Church allows American Catholics to...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

A Poignant Thought

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     Happy New Year!      For some the prospects the New Year offers are offset by the frustrations of the year before. That’s particularl...
Friday, January 2, 2026

Smith, Jones, And Coming To America 2026

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     There’s quite a bit of contention over why immigrants to our shores seek to come here. Yet the answer generalizes neatly: Immigrant Sm...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Some End-Of-Year Thoughts

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     Janus has been prodding at my backbrain, prompting me to think those classical end-of-year thoughts. Specifically, I’ve been thinking a...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Dangerfield’s Syndrome

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     Forgive me, Gentle Reader. It’s very early, I’ve been reading some disturbing stuff, and it has me in a foul mood. Two tweets in partic...
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Monday, December 29, 2025

The Deepest Divide

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     I’d intended to apologize for a sudden attack of intellectual sloth and declare a day off, but I have something on my mind that demands...
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Sunday, December 28, 2025

I Should Have Mentioned…

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     What I write will henceforth appear here as well as at my Substack site. I’ve also decided to reproduce my essays from the now defunct ...
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Attractively Packaged Lies

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     Have a brilliantly compact observation from a brilliant source: Any memetic structure that inhibits biological reproduction must nece...
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Saturday, December 27, 2025

New Content At Fran’s Substack Site (Updated Regularly)

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December 27, 2025: Pogrom 2026
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Thursday, December 25, 2025

“There Were Shepherds Abiding In The Fields...”

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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lor...
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