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Stream: President Obama Once Again Imagines He Will Save The World

Today's post is at The Stream: President Obama Once Again Imagines He Will Saves The World. On his inauguration---perhaps apotheosis is a better word---President Obama said that the world would…

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Internet Guidelines From The Rule Of St Benedict — Guest Post by Bob Kurland

The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain…

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Carbon Fibre Masculinity, Homosociality, Gendered Surfaces, & Idiot Academics

Tell you right up front that the only way to be sure of solving the crisis in higher education is to nuke universities from orbit and then salt the grounds…

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Why Americans Left Christianity And Became Nones

The title of the Pew report which we'll discuss is "Why America's 'nones' left religion behind", though, as you can see, I modified it. For good reason. The original Pew…

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Reader Query & Assist Request: Health Data In India

Busy Saturday, so a plea from reader Aman Rastogi: Sir, I am a student from Lucknow University, INDIA, pursuing my Masters in Public Health there. Few days back I have…

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Islam vs. The West vs. Russia — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

I've been asked to share 'my notes' regarding my previous posts about Islam vs. The West (Part I, II, III). Especially where I've said that the only way out for…

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The True History Of College Sports Under Title IX

Here is the true history of college sports under the Federal Title IX mandate. Some events have not yet come to pass. In 1972, the Most Beneficent Government of the…

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Stream: Our New Satanic Moment

Today's post is at The Stream: Our New Satanic Moment: A seemingly paradoxical trend of "enlightenment" and brutality. See below for important caveats. These once United States have had Satanic…

Cary Cotterman on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
Insider info says a roomful of chimps write Kamala Harris's public utterances. All the superhero movie scripts of the past…
Hagfish Bagpipe on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
Thats all well and good, Briggs, and pretty funny, too, but why not just torture the model until she says…
Paul Murphy on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
Reminds me a lot of stuff I used to do for fun - a great way to lose girlfriends, of…
Brian (bulaoren) on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
In an effort to narrow the gap; between Finite and Infinite, we might try compiling a list of fluent (public)…
Heresolong on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
I appreciate that they had a sense of humor about it but there is no "Finite Monkeys Theorem", there's only…