Category Archives: Toxics

Missile Envy

2/21/2008 – 10:45 am

Last night, a Standard Missile 3 rocket, launched from the USN Lake Erie, an Aegis-class cruiser in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii, struck a disabled spy satellite 150 miles over Earth. It is hoped the missile destroyed the satellite (confirmation of a “kill” will be made later today) and saved the planet from [...]

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Live the Dream!

2/6/2008 – 2:23 pm

It’s snowing in Burlington today, but it’s never too early to begin planning for spring break.
This year, you might want to throw the kids in a plane and hustle on down to EPCOT
at Walt Disney World. (EPCOT, btw, stands for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow” - a rare “triple redundancy” and evidence of just [...]

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Next To Godliness

12/20/2007 – 11:17 am

This isn’t a Christmas story, per se. It’s about soap. It takes place in Louisiana in June, far removed from the climate and symbols traditionally associated with Christmas, but the more I contemplate the “Christmas spirit” the more this story pushes to the front of my mind.
The June in question was 2001, before [...]

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