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Monthly Archives: May 2019

A UFO resistance? Count me in! (updated)

Thursday, May 30, 2019

A “black triangle,” Belgium, 1990 (Wikipedia photo) For many years, I have been alert for anything that might advance our knowledge of UFOs. Very little that could be seen as reliable has come along. The Disclosure Project did some interesting work back in 2013. And, in 2007, France made its UFO files public. Other than […]

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Season 8, the final episode

Monday, May 20, 2019

Ken Ilgunas and David Dalton are reviewing each episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. Check the “Game of Thrones” category to list all of these posts. Many thanks to all who have come here to read these posts, and to all who have commented. It has been a lot of fun, and […]

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Season 8, episode 5 (2 updates)

Monday, May 13, 2019

Ken Ilgunas and David Dalton are reviewing each episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. Check the “Game of Thrones” category to list all of these posts. David: Mornin’, Ken … We just watched, I believe, the most extraordinary television episode ever made. It wasn’t just the spectacle, which topped all the previous […]

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Why do we know so little about socialism?

Saturday, May 11, 2019

John Rawls: Reticent Socialist, by William A. Edmundson. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 212 pages. I am going to propose an answer to the question that I raise in the headline: The reason we know so little about socialism is that, for two generations, since the era of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the Overton window […]

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Restoring a vintage cast iron skillet

Thursday, May 9, 2019

The 1940s skillet after stripping, scouring, and one seasoning treatment. It looks brand new! I bought this vintage cast iron skillet at an antique shop in Stuart, Virginia, for $17. It’s a great skillet, and it was a good bargain, though it’s not as collectible as some vintage cast iron, which is very much a […]

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Season 8, episode 4 (4 updates)

Monday, May 6, 2019

Ken Ilgunas and David Dalton are reviewing each episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. Check the “Game of Thrones” category to list all of these posts. David: Mornin’, Ken… This beautiful episode reminds us that in spite of Game of Thrones’ achievements in world-building, plot-spinning, and politicking, it’s the characters that really […]

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Vegan burger report (updated)

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Click here for high resolution version. Not only did this vegetarian burger greatly exceed my expectations, it was so convincing that I felt disgusted with myself after eating it, as though I really had snarfed down a big belly load of pink-in-the-middle beef. This is the “Beyond Burger” from Beyond Meat. As a near-vegetarian, I […]

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