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New Math

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Some of you who have small children may have perhaps been put in the
embarrassing position of being unable to do your child’s arithmetic homework
because of the current revolution in mathematics teaching known as the New
Math. So as a public service here tonight I thought I would offer a brief
lesson in the New Math. Tonight we’re...

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Smut

Monday, January 24th, 2011

I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I’m for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we no what’s really involved: dirty books are fun. That’s all there is to it. But you can’t...

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In Old Mexico

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Now, I’m sure you’re all aware that this week is national gall-bladder week. So as sort of an educational feature at this point I thought I would acquaint you with some of the results of my recent researches into the career of the late doctor Samuel Gall, inventor of the gall-bladder. Which certainly ranks as one of the more important technological...

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