Chaos Theory Now Online!

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That's right kids, for those of you who just shelled out $6 (+$2 s&h), if only you'd waited... The critically acclaimed Chaos Theory is now available online. Now just how would Gene and Wabulon have repelled a Panzer division armed only with their sarcasm and liquor breath? Find out this and so much more!

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  1. John Goes9:20 PM

    Thanks, Bob!

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  2. Wabulon2:46 PM

    Ungrateful scum: your insouciant reliance upon our precious government's solicitude of our inelienable right to get drunk and spew sarcasm will stand youse in little stead as you are carted off to the recombinant DNA factories of our future. Ha!

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  3. Wabulon2:54 PM

    I am reading the book--or essay--and am impressed. I have an objection to the footnote (1) from p. 8: "qualitative"?

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