Famous Artist School

When I was 11-years old, I applied to the Famous Artists School, to learn to be a cartoonist by mail. Here’s the application. [missing image] And here’s a page from the test, so you can see how much talent I had at that age. (Not much.) [missing image] In the…

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A Golden Age

One view of the near future is that terrorists will get nukes and set the atmosphere on fire, or global warming will kill us all, or bird flu will create a pandemic, or the world economy will melt down, or all of those disasters will happen at once. I suppose…

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Religion and Politics

Why would you vote for a president who has a different religion than you? If you are certain of the rightness of your own beliefs, and equally certain of the wrongness of a presidential candidate’s belief, that proves the candidate has, in your opinion, bad judgment about the most important…

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Vacation Challenged

I just returned from some vacation time near the beach, down the coast from where we live. I’m bad at taking vacations, in every way a person can be bad at an activity. For example, I never have the right attitude going into a vacation. I am told that the…

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Write Your Own Joke

So this man finds a bottle in the forest and rubs it. A genie comes out, and not only is she hot, but she agrees to grant the man two wishes. The man thinks for a second, gets an evil grin, and gives his two wishes: 1. I want to…

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Sleepless in Everywhere

Scientist might be closing in on a drug that eliminates the need for sleep and has no side effects. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/sleep_deprivation [no longer available] The smart money says this won’t work in humans. That’s the usual pattern for stories of potential medical breakthroughs. But what if it does? And what if…

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