George Carlin’s final national performance is available on YouTube

Tonight I watched “It’s Bad For Ya,” George Carlin’s final nationally televised performance. The entire show is available on YouTube (Below is Part I of VII). The show was broadcast live on March 1, 2008, only a few months prior to Carlin’s death (due to a heart attack, on June…

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My not-so-terrifying encounter with a syndactylist.

My family shared a vacation house with several other families this year.  One afternoon, one of my wife's friends (a philosophy professor in his 40's) was relaxing on the porch when I looked down and noticed his unusual right foot: I found myself blurting out, "So tell me about your…

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Picasso’s Simpler Bulls

I spotted this beautiful progression of drawings on Reddit and decided to publish the original link, which features a short series of bulls drawn by Picasson in late 1945.   Beautiful drawings start with a full bodied bull and end with an incredibly simple and elegant version. When I was a…

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