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The Ultimate:  Once again, a wacky, divisive,
leftist president is nationalizing industries for political gain. No, I’m not talking about Barack Obama, but
that other wacky, divisive, leftist president, Hugo Chavez. (Although I can understand how that first sentence can be confusing.) |
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Rambling, Self-Absorbed Communiques: A Small Note to My Fans I would like to
apologize for the large time gap between the last few articles. A dangerous conspiracy between my real job, the
stochastic nature of the universe and some health issues succeeded in making writing a bit more than I could manage for the
last few months, and still meet my other responsibilities. Fortunately, things have improved a quite a bit lately with
at least two of the aforementioned conspirators. (The universe remains stochastic, however.) During my radio silence
with the internet world, something strange happened: someone wrote me to ask if I was OK and to ask that I get back to writing.
And then a second and a third and sixth wrote. I've lost count of how many of you took the time to write. Although
I didn't write back (I wasn't quite sure what to say), I read every email and thought "My God, the world is so devoid
of talent that apparently I can pass as such." But more to the point, I thought it was incredibly nice and I would
like to thank you all. For what it's worth, all those notes mattered. I disappeared from the universe and people
I am not directly related to noticed. This fact shed a lot of light on one of life's great questions for me, which is
"If I disappeared from the universe, would anybody I'm not directly related to even notice?" Not only did
they notice, but they are apparently literate and have email access. Again, thank you. I'll write regularly for
Energy Tribune again and maybe ramp back up to other outlets as well, depending on how it goes. -Mac The Penultimate Four: I’m sitting, alone, at
my kitchen table, eating cold leftovers for dinner. Bear Grylls is floating, accompanied only by a full camera crew
and a giant digital blur to cover his blaring white bare butt, on a rickety raft in the midst of the ocean -- giving himself
a "survival-enhancing" sewage enema to the accompaniment of much grunting. “This is crazy,”
I thought. “Why aren’t I on a raft?” Tuesday night, after weeks
of indecision, Obama finally showed us how he will deal with Afghanistan: he doesn’t know what he’s doing, he’s
not going in all the way, and he’s promising his reluctant base that he’ll withdraw before the mission is complete
-- or what I like to call “the teenage boy” approach to war. Those who want to give local
courts a global power should remember that on this globe, there are a lot of locations they might not want to have a far
reaching power over them: we must prosecute the prosecutors of American servicemen. Friday the Nobel committee
gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for being Barack Obama. This is entirely appropriate as being Barack Obama is
Barack Obama’s greatest and only achievement in life, so far.
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