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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. -Charles Darwin

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The Chicago Typewriter was a model of typewriter from 1899. "Chicago Typewriter" was also a nickname for the Thompson sub-machine gun and the name of the blog of Mark Nabong.

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Archive for June, 2008

Rest in Peace, Bo Diddley.

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Bo Diddley died last week at the age of 79.
Diddley was an American music pioneer, and I mean that in a non-hyperbolic way; whenever a musician dies there is a tendency to call them “groundbreaking” or an “innovator,” and that irritates the heck out of me. In this case, though, it’s true. Bo […]

Obama secures nomination & I am the new Nostradamus

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Spelling Bee Heros

Sunday, June 1st, 2008