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Insanity & Doom Update XLVII
Item North Carolina Elementary Teachers Struggle To Pass Math Portion Of Licensing Exam The Charlotte Observer reports that nearly half of newly hired teachers in North Carolina failed to pass…
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Episcopal Meltdown
A new prayer is being formulated by the Episcopal Church. An early copy was leaked. That copy found its way into my hands. I put it here for your judgement.…
Posted inBook review Culture
Despite What You Heard, The Death Penalty Is Legitimate. Feser and Bessette’s “By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment”
Because, very oddly, there has been a changing of the catechism from the constant and ancient teaching ("the pope is distracting the world with fresh meat for the spirit of…
Posted inClass Statistics
How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part IV New (Free) Software Logistic Regression
Previous post in the series (or click above on Class). Download the code: mcmc.pred.R, mcmc.pred.examples.R. If you downloaded before, download again. This is version 0.21! Only the example code changed…
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Sarah Jeong, The New York Times & The Problem Of Whites
I am glad the New York Times did not fire Sarah Jeong. Not only am I happy, I am thrilled. I'm hoping she is assigned the Maxine Waters beat. I'm…
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Worst Pope Ever?
Garrison Keillor performed a neat trick. He gently teased and admonished his enlightened NPR (pardon the redundancy) audience, which to a man or a woman identifying as a man, thought…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: A Misunderstanding of Separate Substances
Previous post. This chapter, and the next, exist to squash a couple of subtle, technical errors. They require close reading to grasp. It's best to at least skim: don't skip.…
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Insanity & Doom Update XLVI
A special all-reader-contribution edition of Doom! Item WeWork will stop serving meat at company events in effort to reduce environmental impact (Thanks to Sheri for the link.) The co-working startup…
