Alternative Tagline, not yet adopted: "Digging for Choice Nuggets in the Litterbox of Knowledge"

Please scroll down beneath the picture to see my vanities; and at the bottom of the page are interactive quizzes "Nerd Score", "To Which Race of Middle-Earth Do You Belong?" "Which Sci-Fi Character are You,""What Mythological Character Are You?"and a map "create your own visited states map"

My adopted self-portrait, borrowed from one of the crevo threads.

Some of my articles on Free Republic:

A Modest Proposal on the Ten Commandments

SUVs: The Death of the Dinosaurs (Vanity)

Vanity: In Praise of Internal Combustion

Vanity: Of Mice and Men

(Vanity) Phone Hassle; or, To Serve Man

(Vanity) Another Look at Outsourcing

(Vanity) An Analogy to Taxes

(Vanity) An Ode to September

(Vanity) The Generation Gap

(Vanity) Is Bush Playing Poker with Miers?

Marketing Effluent

The Liars, The Itch, and the War-drone; or, The Dope-A-Rope

(Vanity) Division of Labor, or Why Values Matter

(Vanity) Whither the Economy?

(Vanity) The Digital Convergence and Mass Customization

(Vanity) A Falling Tide Grounds All Boats

(Vanity) Peak Labor

(Vanity) A mythical email response to Senator Frist

(Vanity) The New Colonialism, or, Out of One, Many

(Vanity) Immigration Policies, or, Half-A-Glass

(Vanity) My Trip to Alaska, Part I

(Vanity) My Trip to Alaska, Part II : The City of Anchorage

(Vanity) My Trip to Alaska, Part III: The Road To Denali

(Vanity) My Trip to Alaska, Part IV: The Kitty Goes to Kenai

(Vanity) Summer in Alaska, Part V: From Homer to Home

(Vanity) The Passion of the Kos

(Vanity) Asymmetrical Wars and Disproportionate Response

(Vanity) Pride and Prejudice -- or, On Trust of Authors

(Vanity) The HP Way and the NSA; or, Little Sister is Watching You

(Vanity) Confessions of a Crunchy Con, or, You Can't Judge a Conservative by his Birkenstocks

(Vanity) Foley's Follies, or Queen for a Day

(Vanity) Confessions of a Crunchy Con II, or, I Left My Heart in Cans of Crisco

Confessions of a Crunchy Con III, or, Why Don't I Mind *Your* Own Business?

The Lexis-Nexis and the Oligarchy, with Apologies to Thomas Friedman

(Vanity) What Hath Bush Wrought, or, Through a Glass Darkly

(Vanity) The Shell Game, or "Con"-oco Fillups

(Vanity) Why Business is For the Birds,or, All Flocked Up Part I

(Vanity) Why Business is For the Birds,or,All Flocked Up Part II

(Vanity) Campaign for Sustainable Government

(Vanity) A House Divided,or, You Can't Teach a Yellow Dog New Tricks

Note: thanks to RebelBanker for catching an obvious error...I've *got* to stop posting past my bedtime.

(Vanity) It Just Isn't Cricket, or, The Sound of Silence

(Vanity) Monkey See, Much Ado, or, Ann Coulter Ate My Homework

Indulgences, or Divine Secrets of the Yo-Yo Sisterhood

(Vanity) How Many Republicans Does It Take To Screw Up A Campaign, or The War on Error

(Vanity) Are Americans Hobbits?

(Vanity) Al Qaeda in a Quagmire

President Charlie Brown, or The Sins of the Fathers

(Vanity) Big Pharma and the Broken Window, or Look at These Drug Prices, It's a Crime

(Vanity) A Merck-y Decision, or, Is Pfizer Wiser?

(Vanity) As the World Turns, or The Wild, Wild East

(Vanity) As the World Turns, Part II, or Back to the Future

(Vanity) As the World Turns, Part III, or, The Year of Lipstick on a Pig

(Vanity) As the World Turns, Part IV, or The New Dealhi

(Vanity) As the World Turns, Part V, or, The Melting Pot

(Vanity) Al Gore and the Kyoto Treaty

(Vanity) Newspeak and the Pipsqueak, or, Light in the Briefs

(Vanity) The Other Face of India, or, The Social Climber

A Republic, If You Can Keep It, or, Go Fly A Kite

(Vanity) Code Punked, or The Laws of the Medeas and Persians

(Vanity) Why Johnny Can't Add, or The Hell of Gates

A Republic If You Can Keep It Part II: The New Feudalism Tweedledum and Tweedledee go to Washington

(Vanity) Hillary meets McCain-Feingold, or, This Runt for Hire

(Vanity) The GE Way, or How to Welch on Your Promises

(Vanity) A Look Back at Immigration, or Fifty Years of Lies

(Vanity) The One-Way Ratchet

Vanity (The Christian Church and Multiculturalism)

(Vanity) The Amnesty Act of 2007 (Discussion of Text from the Bill)

(Vanity) The Era of Cheap Crap, or, You Don't Get What You (Don't) Pay For

(Vanity) Allah and Man at Columbia, or, Say it Ain't So, Mo!

(Vanity) Hillary Loves the Little Children, or This Bun [in the oven] For Hire

(Vanity) The Rush to Judgment, or, Pin the Fail on the Donkey

(Vanity) The Lawyer's Escape Clause, or The Social Uncertainty Principle

(Vanity) The Coulter Affair, or Deutch! Deutsch!

(Vanity) Democrats and Health Care, or the SCHIP hits the fan

China's Fuel Problems, or, A Shortage of Sand

(Vanity) A Nightmare Scenario

The McCain Sieve, or, the SwiftTalk Express

(Vanity) The Stimulus Package, or, The Trojan Burro

(Vanity) Trading Places on the Plantation

Pushing on a String, or, The End of the Rope

(Vanity) The Audacity of Hoax, or, The Religious Wright

(Vanity) Barack Obama, The Candidate for Everyone?

(Vanity) A Bump on the Road to Globalization

The Failed Policies of the Past, or, The Thirty Year Echo

Thank God for the EPA, or, There but for the grace of Nixon

Amphibian Warming, or, A Convenient Half-Truth

(Vanity) The Militia Clause, or H. L. Mencken was Right

(Vanity) You might be a liberal if...

(Vanity) Stick this on your Volvo, or, Sloganeers for Truth

(Vanity) A Look Back at 1968, or, Boneheads Revisited

(Vanity) A Look Back at 1968, Part II, or, The Impotents Abroad

Cheese, Moose, Palin

Some Days You're Palin. Some Days You're the Moose.

Sarah Palin: All American Girl

(Vanity, Satire) Barack Obama's latest fundraising letter

Politically Based Cartoon "Day By Day" NAILS the ABC Gibson/Palin Interview

(Vanity) Getting the Point on Ayers, or, An Act of War

(Vanity) Great Hoax from Little Acorns Grow, or, Are the Polls Nuts?

(Vanity) Annotated Tolkien and the Election Cycle

(Vanity) A Brief Comment on the Election

(Vanity) Give Us This Day, or, Lead Us Into Temptation

(Vanity) The Internet is Mightier than the Sword, or, après moi, les Allemands

(Vanity) Cloward-Piven and the Markets, or “He Played on Our Fears! He BETRAYED This Country!"

(Vanity) The Wind and The Trees, or, When You Wish Upon a TARP

(Vanity) On Inauguration Day, Let Me Be The First To Say...

(Vanity) The ROP vs. RPS, or, the Schoolyard Guide to Politics and The War on Terror

(Vanity) The Nation's First Black Jimmy Carter, or, The Unbearable Lightness of Barry

(Vanity) Obama's Sovereign Socialist Remedy for Swollen Executives, or, Preparation H

(Vanity) A Lesson from the Buffalo, or, Let The Chips Fall Where They May

(Vanity) The Multiplier Effect, or, Stimulate This! (Why Adam Smith Uses Only One Hand)

(Vanity) The Gospel of Matthews Chapter 5:1-20, or, The Barackitudes

Obama's Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (apologies to William Shakespeare)

(Vanity) Rush Limbaugh in Alinsky's Crosshairs, or, Gunfight at the EIB Corral

(Vanity) Barack Obama and Reinhold Neibuhr, or, He Finds Your Lack of Faith Disturbing

A Living, Breathing Document, or, The Messiah and the Money Changers

(Vanity) The Endangered Specie Act, or, The Tax Footprint (Save the Greenbacks!)

(Vanity) Bodacious Tatas, or, India Steps on the Gas

(Vanity) Hillary and the Drug War, or, Keep Your Nose Clean

(Vanity) A Modest(o) Proposal, or, Keeping California Green

(Vanity) Perverse Incentives, or P.J. O'Rourke meets Milton Friedman

(Vanity) Thoughts on Easter

(Vanity) Washington in Hot Water, or, the Tea-Baggers

(Vanity) Observations on Catholic Confirmation, or, Pomp and ChurchandStance

(Vanity) Mark Twain, and Pandemic Flu, or, Mongolian Flustered Cluck

(Vanity) Mongolian Flustered Cluck, Part II, or, Stop the Supply Chain, I Want to Get Off

(Vanity) Chiefly on Squirrels, or, Darwin Meets the Michelin Man

(Vanity) A Generation of Children, or President <strike>Hoover<\strike> Electrolux

(Vanity) Alinsky Meets Orwell, or, The Audacity Archipelago

(Vanity) In Praise of a Simpler Time, or, Dude, Where's My Childhood?

(Vanity) The Obamanation of Defenestration, or, Dreams from my Fascist

The Obamanation of Defenestration II: Serf's Up, or, A Donkey To Pass Through the Eye of A Needle

(Vanity) Obama and the Press, or Totus Ponens

(Vanity) Palin and Sotomayor, with a side of Reagan

(Vanity) Obamacare and the Politics of Personal Destruction

The Minimum Wage and Unemployment, or, Bye Bye, Miss American Pie (No such thing as a Free Lunch)

(Vanity) Dr. Strangeglove, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Obamacare

(Vanity) Suggested Questions for the Town Hall, or, Barack Obama and the Deathly Hollows

(Vanity) Malthusian Ethics and Government Health Care

(Vanity) Sarah Palin, Alinsky, and Obamacare (With A Nod To William Shakespeare)

(Vanity) A Simple Bipartisan Proposal on ObamaCare, for the Blue Dog Dems

(Vanity) First Take on Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue"

(Vanity) Obama Holiday Song: The Twelve Days of Eid al-Adha

(Vanity) Sarah Palin at the Mall of America

(Vanity) The Social Diamond Strategy, or, Swine Before Pearls

"Et Tu, Dufus?" (with Apologies to William Shakespeare)

(Vanity) Give us Back Our Money: Render Unto Caesar, or, The Lenin King

(Vanity) FR Exclusive -- Harry Reid Speaks Out on the Massachusettes Senate Race

China, the US, and Russia: MAD revisited

(Vanity) Surgeon General's Warning

(Vanity) Chess, Tolkien, and the Return of the Republic: An Introduction

(Funny Article, too bad it's not mine): Bud and Lou on Computers

And a few posts on The Global Warming / Climategate Scandal:

Selected CRU Emails (h/t to boy-on-a-bike and to Darwin Central)

Selected CRU Emails, Part II: Independence of the Press?

"Global Warming" SCAM - Hack/Leak FLASH in forum [Ticker]

Dilbert Predicts Global Warming in 1994 (Satire)

Climategate: Analysis by John P. Costella

(Saving these for some thread where I need them!)

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