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9/7/05
We pause at this point to give you the opportunity to vote in our reader poll:
Who is the bigger blowhard: Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh?
We recognize that this is a tough one, but give it the good old college try. You may vote thru the "Contact the Palindromist" link at left. Results will be posted soon.
Extreme "no government is good government" types like O'Reilly have simply gotta go. Speaking of which, be sure to catch Thomas Friedman's column in The New York Times for 9/7/05, "Osama and Katrina," especially his skewering of Grover Norquist and Bush/Cheney re: government, taxes, services, etc.
3/26/05
To paraphrase from Sports Illustrated: Here are further signs that the apocalypse is nigh upon us. And in honor of the March 24 Palindrome of the Day, I give you this link to an AP article regarding the refusal of many Imax theatres to show science related films because they may mention the "E" word or suggest that there may have been anything sciencewise going on as life developed on this planet. Most are in the South, which figures. It is unbelievable that, for example, the Fort Worth Museum of Natural History is caving in to this crap. Read it and weep. You may need to register first, but I believe that is easy (and free).
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Film-IMAX-Evolution.html
2/28/05
This launch of this site is dedicated to the memory of my father, Winfred S. Emmons Jr., who would have been 85 three weeks ago. He was the greatest fan of my palindromic work, never failing to guffaw in his unique way. He, a true linguist, pushed me into mathematics, and palindromes are the closest I have ever come to treading into his domain. Although not a computer person by any stretch of the imagination, I think he would have enjoyed the site if someone had shown it to him.
2/10/05
Happy birthday to me. I turned 29 today.
