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  • The Ballad of Bill and Bud

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    K. L. Homme
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    Bill lived free in his truck-bed camper.  Every summer he’d roll into town with his wife and two daughters, stock up at the local grocery store, and park under the Ponderosa pines, where he lived free of rent and indoor plumbing in the shadow of the volcano. He was not a tall man, but he…

  • Black Swans and Sacrificial Goats (5.5)

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    K. L. Homme
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    Falsifiable propositions do not inspire us to flee—Oedipus-like—out of anxiety or the fear of finding them true.  They do not oppress. They invite our questions and tell us how to test them. They submit to criticism, allowing us to discover and correct errors.