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Jaws and the Meaning of Life
Stream: What the Atheist Claim of the Meaninglessness of Life Would Mean (If it were True) Links fixed! There is a scene early on in the killer-shark movie Jaws which…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Evil is Not Intended, Part II
Previous post. We continue with the proof that evil is not intended, with some seemingly convincing counter-arguments, and the answers to these. Two Chapters this week. Arguments which seem to…
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Insanity & Doom Update XVII
Item Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them. If you buy this view of responsibility, you might eventually admit that having many children is…
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Why Most Members Of The Media Are Leftists — Guest Post by Kevin Groenhagen
Both Barack and Michelle Obama made speeches in which they compared the positive "what is" with the normative "what should be." "There must be no doubt that the United States…
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Why People Seek Out Alt-Media — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
Imagine that you are a passive "consumer" of news, to use the preferred industry lingo. The use of "consume" is telling, admitting news itself has a shelf-life of a bag…
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Real Versus Fake Fake News: Update
Stream: Real Versus Fake Fake News On the last day of bad old year, Lake Superior State University released its 43rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English…
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How’d We Do On Our 2017 Predictions?
How'd we do? Not so hot. We missed big events; but then, 2017 was a screwy year with our continued slide into Insanity & Doom accelerating. As Yogi Berra may…
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Register Your Predictions For 2018
As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year later this week.…
