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Government By The Damned
Almost all of those who have managed to put themselves in charge of us are bad people. They are right about only a few things, wrong about most. They sometimes…
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Coronavirus Update XXII: Mask Madness: Updates At End
As I was writing this (Monday morning), a minor government official came on the radio and promised "We haven't seen the worst yet." What accounts for this monumental level of…
Contra BLM Up North
The gentleman is Willard. "Just like the name of the rat" in the old movie, he boasted. He gave me permission to take his picture and tell his story. He…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Against Those Who Attack Vows
Previous post. I swear it's okay to sometime swear. AGAINST THOSE WHO ATTACK VOWS 1 It has seemed foolish to some people to bind oneself by a vow to obey…
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Trump Up North
The truck and trailer took up a good chunk of main street. It was blasting 70s disco. Flags festooned the one-float parade fore and aft. It was a party. Pickup…
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You’ve Reached The Best Place For Online Climate Change Misinformation
I, and many of my pals, have been named a sort of scofflaw by three people named Kathie, Hywel, and Saffron. Kathie, Hywel, and Saffron wrote the peer-reviewed article "Online…
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AI Getting Too Good At Predicting Crime, So It’s Being Purged
If all we know about an American male is that he is an American male, we can use data on observed rates American males committed crimes to predict that this…
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Coronavirus Update XXI: Calm Down! Record Testing Is Why There Are Record “Cases”
OHNOWE'REALLGOINGTODIE---AGAIN! Look at this plot, the number of daily COVID tests in the US, according to the COVID-19 tracking project. So far, since the start of the insanity, there have…
