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Years ago, Jepson dated a girl who had an odd taste for the salty husks of peanut shells, which she’d wad up and savor like chewing tobacco in a remarkably subtle, almost dainty way.
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Iowa’s a remarkably queer state—and I definitely do not mean gay!
“Oh, don’t get upset, Annabelle. There’s nothing wrong with Iowa! Not much, anyway. And I’m not implying you’re some kind of inbred hillbilly.” This, in a tone Judy no doubt reserves for inbred hillbillies.
The half-forgotten lesson of the anthrax attacks is that all vessels are leaky. Terrorism is meanwhile shifting from being a means of communication by groups, to a form of self-expression by individuals. In this environment, the only safe place for WTD technologies is the pages of science fiction novels. And even that, we might question.
You let people on your no-fly list buy machine guns at retail because you think Benjamin Franklin would’ve dug that! That’s Civil War–era technology! And you still don’t know how to contain it! So how can you digest even half of what’s coming out of the labs over the next decade without some nut job using the Second Amendment to kill you all?
