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New Talking Statue of Iowa City Historian Irving Weber!
Here’s a short news item about Iowa City historian Irving Weber, whose statue is on Iowa Avenue in downtown Iowa City. You can also find the notice about the talking Irving Weber statue at this link. This has a couple of connections to point out. Irving Weber worked in the dairy industry for man years…
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My Two Cents
I saw the recent news story about the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision to block the University of Iowa from redirecting a private scholarship fund to first-generation college students despite the donor’s intention by that it go to black students. I believe the donor, Ezra Totton, intended that the scholarship go to black students and because…
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Psilocybin in the News
Sena alerted me to an interesting news item about psilocybin which a case report describes the agent improving a Japanese American woman’s dementia. It was a whopping dose of 5 grams, which I guess is much larger than usual. She also received a second 3-gram dose: Lago M, Cerveira M and Simonet JX (2026) Transient…
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What You Need to Know About The Cow Cribbage Curriculum Conspiracy
This is National Dairy Month and the extraterrestrials know all about it. In fact, the one thing Agents Mulder and Scully didn’t know about was the Cow Cribbage Curriculum Conspiracy (CCCC) that has been under way since before the ETs crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. As Deep Throat put it on the X-Files, “They’ve been…
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Last Day of Cow Week and Today is National Donut Day!
It’s the last day of Cow Week and Mike Waters is doing his wake-up call this morning. And he announced that today is National Donut Day! I had no idea. He’s wondering whether there are any bakeries in Eastern Iowa that could get a shout-out for it. I had to look this up on the…
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Cow Cap for Cow Week & Other Mysteries
I went to the mall yesterday and just for the heck of it went to a cap shop (no, not the cop shop; I was a good boy!) and bought a cow cap! The store is called Lids Locker Room for obvious reasons. I told the salesman why I wanted it, filling him on the…
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Cow Week Wednesday with Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7 Trip to the Dairy Farm Wormhole!
This is day 3 of Cow Week with Mike Waters Wake Up Call radio show on KOKZ 105.7. There’s a Sci-Fi angle on the whole cow thing today. Mike’s really hard to keep up with, but today there was this incident involving a cow flying through his window with a note with instructions on it.…
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Thoughts on the Reblog of Thoughts on the National Spelling Bee: Implications for Cow Week?
So, WordPress is telling me that I should post something on June 3, 2026 because I posted something on the same date in 2022. We’d never seen a spelling bee competition before and it was gripping. And then I thought of that Chick-Fil-A commercial spelling bee with the “word” Eat Mor Chikin. Has anyone else…
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Cow Week Stuff from Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7
Hey, it’s Cow Week from Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7 and he’s hanging out at New Day Dairy GuestBarn in Clarksville. Remember, it’s National Dairy Month. He’s taking requests for tunes that have cowbell sounds in them and substituting the word “cow” or some synonym for that in song titles and whatnot. One caller suggested “I…
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Further Thoughts About Guns Reblog
WordPress is tracking my blogs (it’s not paranoia!) and I can’t tell you how helpful it is to see what I wrote years ago and how I and the world has changed since then. What I notice about this post from June 2, 2022 is that the web link to Gun Policy dot org doesn’t…
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