Jane Austen Loving Cat Reads Pride and Prejudice

We’re busy checking all systems on here Irregular Times, after our server-transfer experience gone awry. While Irregular Times has been down, of course, we’ve been busy working on our peripheral sites, including Irregular Books, where the following cartoon video will …

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Save The Sun Bear – Vote Progressive

There’s the laissez-faire plan that the right wingers promote: Don’t do anything, and see what happens under free market conditions. If species go extinct, that’s okay, because the free market is inherently wise, and so those species must have been undesirable to start with. The sun bear has been dealing with an excess of this approach, as market forces have reduced its habitat to unsustainable size and have encouraged hunting even of its scarce numbers.

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Discovering My Daemon

Responding to F.G. Fitzer’s idea of integrating daemons from The Golden Compass into the Irregular Times vision of political analysis, I decided to go on over to the website for the Golden Compass movie, and use the software there to …

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What Is Fred Thompson’s Daemon in Golden Compass World?

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Fred Thompson’s career got its start as he served President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate hearings, leaking information to the Nixon White House that enabled Nixon to erase vital information from audio tapes of conversations in the Oval Office. From there, Thompson went on to a career serving corrupt corporate clients as a lobbyist, representing the interests of coal mining companies that wanted to avoid safety rules, asbestos companies that didn’t want to be responsible for the harm they caused to people’s lungs, and Republican Party interests that wanted extremist right wing judges put in high court positions. For being a lackey of right wing power elites for so many years, Fred Thompson definitely qualifies for a dog as a daemon.

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My Lost Book of Nostradamus

This lost book of Nostradamus has been kept by my family for generations, as we have carefully guarded its secrets. I, the last steward of the book, have agreed to release its contents only because the History Channel’s program presents an incomplete and distorted picture of the truth of Nostradamus.

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National Novel Writing Month Is Near

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In National Novel Writing Month, everybody who reaches the goal of 50,000 words wins. Everyone who tries is congratulated. There is no promise that any of the works written in the month will be published, or any guarantee that any of the results will be much good. The benefit seems to be in the experience, a kind of endurance run for people who want to prove that they can get words down on a page.

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Fearful Quiet in Conquest – World Without Oil

The say the car stopped on the pulloff on 370 headed toward Wolcott is checking the license plates of every car passing on the highway in that direction, and that there’s another checkpoint on every road in and out of town. People say that the mayor wants to know who is going out of town to buy gasoline. Not driving myself any more, I have no way to confirm that this is true. There are lots of strange rumors going around, after all.

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Political Insiders Caught Hoarding Gasoline: World Without Oil

Wednesday night, a bunch of elected officials from Cato were caught going over to the station in the middle of the night, when the pumps are closed to everyone else, and filling up a tanker of their own. It seems that the owner of the gas station has been giving these officials preferential treatment.

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Conquest, New York Slows Down With Less Oil

World Without Oil: With people from Wayne County making fewer trips into Syracuse, fewer shipments being made by truck, and fewer people travelling by car for pleasure much at all, it’s rare to see a vehicle going down the highway. That’s a good thing, given that highway repairs have been tabled for the year, and some of last winter’s potholes have been left unfilled. Drivers have reported having to stop while children clear games of a popular new sport, road hockey, from the pavement.

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Welcome to the World Without Oil

I’ll be writing here at Irregular Times as a part of the World Without Oil project. The events I’ll be describing will be unreal, part of the alternative reality, but they’ll be my attempt to describe a small part of what reality would be like where I am, given the oil shortage crisis conditions described each day by the project organizers.

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Give National Novel Writing Month a Shot

National Novel Writing Month. Exhilarating, spontaneous, and stupid, done just for the hell of it? Sounds good to me.

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Plane Diverted After Man Gives Steward The Finger

The fact that this man has been able to stay off the no-fly terrorist watch list may be an indication that Al Quaida is perfecting its techniques of infiltration and is setting up sleeper cells within our society, ready to launch a massive attack at a moment’s notice.

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Cubans Overturn Sofas En Masse, Looking for Change

When they heard that President Bush wanted to talk to them on the telephone, Cubans started looking for the change that he requested, ripping the cushions off their couches and looking for forgotten coins. Then, they ran out of their homes, practically all at once, to find the nearest pay phone. This sudden and uniform movement all across Cuba created an earthquake, which in turn triggered a small tsunami, which carried a small fleet of Cuban fishing boats all the way to Florida.

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Irregular Fun With Conspiracies: What REALLY happened with gunshots in Congress?

What’s the best conspiracy theory you can come up? What really happened in the Rayburn building yesterday, who is covering it up, and why?

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Bring in the Illegal Immigration Scapegoats!

There comes a time when all good Americans must come together, and stand united, and work to make sure that nobody else gets to share in the American dream. Some people say that I should do nothing to stop illegal immigrants. I ask them: Do you want to wait until the evidence of the threat from illegal immigrants comes in the form of a mushroom cloud?

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Assaulting Jesus with Fiction

The holy grail is really just a code for the DNA sequencing technique developed through a collaboration of the Buddha and John the Baptist. Genghis Khan was actually a clone of Jesus, which is why the burial site of Genghis Khan was kept a secret for centuries… until now, and it appears that the corpse in the secret crypt still has some viable DNA.

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The First fully wiki Bible

Web site offers people the chance to edit the Holy Bible through wiki technology, so that the Bible can read as they see fit

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Weekend Fiction Challenge: Simulate Spam in Ultra Short Story

Irregular writing prompt: Write a story that contains as many spam words as possible, in an artful form

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