Peak Water

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If you don't read Peter Gleick on water and the West, you really need to because he's the most important journalist focusing on this vital issue. And if he says we have reached peak water, then we've probably reached peak water. After a long list of...

More USAF

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Colonel Michael Bob Starr and I have gone another iteration on the Air Force. First Colonel Starr: Paradoxically, if the criteria for organizational independence are to have a distinct mission.

Monopoly and the Single Tax

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Now this is an interesting history of the boardgame Monopoly: Hardly cosmetic, the changes introduce a whole new animating ideology to a game created to critique, not celebrate, corporate America. Contrary to popular board game lore, Monopoly was invented not by an unemployed man during the...

Sunday Book Review: Sierra Hotel

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In Robert Farley
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On August 25, 2013
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Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade After Vietnam, by C.R. Anderegg, covers the history of tactical air power (particularly fighter aircraft) from the Vietnam War until the early 1980s and beyond.  Sierra Hotel (slang, dontcha know) is a detailed account of what precisely...

Measles

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On August 25, 2013

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Who could have guessed that anti-vaccination idiocy would lead to illness? A measles outbreak in Texas traces to a congregation of a megachurch whose leader, Kenneth Copeland, reportedly has warned.

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