Monday, October 26, 2009

Moehammed O'Chang, Uiger-Irish-Han Detective

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Mack Hall I blame it all on Agatha Christie. In the 1920s she created the fictional detective Hercule Poirot based on the characteristics o...

Moehammed O'Chang, Uiger-Irish-Han Detective

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Mack Hall I blame it all on Agatha Christie. In the 1920s she created the fictional detective Hercule Poirot based on the characteristics o...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Second-Hand Thousand-Yard Stare

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Mack Hall The Second-Hand Thousand-Yard Stare or The Doggerels of War Dedicated to the Liars and The Saps Who Believe Them Tell me ‘bout th...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Honk if You Cheered for the Iceberg

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Mack Hall Bumper stickers are not nearly as popular as they once were, but they’re still rather good fun. A young friend gave me one that r...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

A Shot in the Light

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Mack Hall In the next few weeks Americans must make a life-or-death decision for themselves and for their children – ‘flu shots or ‘flu shot...

A Shot in the Light

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Mack Hall In the next few weeks Americans must make a life-or-death decision for themselves and for their children – ‘flu shots or ‘flu shot...
Sunday, October 4, 2009

Who's Sari Now?

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Mack Hall The fists and the curry were flying aboard an Air India flight last week as two pilots (male), an air hostess (female), and at lea...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Freedom from Religion -- Thank God

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Mack Hall Americans generally sneer at the religions of others. I think this is a fine tradition that we should maintain, for in some other ...

Freedom from Religion -- Thank God

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Mack Hall Americans generally sneer at the religions of others. I think this is a fine tradition that we should maintain, for in some other...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

I Pledge to...

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Mack Hall Sycophants in an Echo Chamber A flock of the fashionable, like guinea-hens yakking in middle of the road, recently made public ple...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

The Japan-Venus Axis of Miyuki

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Mack Hall Japan’s new first lady, Miyuki Hatoyama, claims to have travelled to Venus on a space ship and to have known Tom Cruise in a past ...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Jeeves and Hitler

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Mack Hall P. G. Wodehouse wrote ten or so novels and perhaps fifty short stories about his two most famous fictional creations, Jeeves and W...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

"Waiter! This Coffee Does NOT Taste Like (poop)!"

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Mack Hall Each generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. -- Henry David Thoreau If you take a cow-floppy and r...
Sunday, August 9, 2009

Fidel Castro and The People's Toilet Paper

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Mack Hall "Your attitude’s been noticed, comrade, oh, yes, it has! Your attitude’s been noticed, you know!" -- Block warden to Yu...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Cash for Concrete Slabs

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Mack Hall The president takes a lot of metaphorical flak (and should) for his successful seizure of two large automobile manufacturers and h...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Last Modem Standing

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Mack Hall Until a recent rainy evening I was the last guy in the USA using a dial-up modem for connecting to the ‘net. As the sky darkened a...

What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?

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Mack Hall Last week Harry Patch, the last British veteran of the Western Front, died at 111. Even at his age he was lucky not to have been c...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

Lobsters on a Plane

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Mack Hall So why do the lobsters get to ride for free? You find your seat with your small carry-on, sit as assigned as part of the herd, and...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

"Scope for Imagination" -- Anne of Green Gables

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Mack Hall In anticipation of a brief visit to Prince Edward Island, Canada’s smallest province, I was advised by several people to read L. M...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Taxpayer! There's a Fly in my Soup!

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Mack Hall I was raised on a farm, a real farm, not a weekend play-farm, and fresh food around the seasons was always a part of my childhood....