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Reaction: Anthony Esolen’s ‘Out of the Ashes’ Reviewed
I want everybody to read Anthony Esolen's Out of the Ashes. Buy it if you can; at least borrow it. Libraries still exist in many places, and some of them…
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Science of Global Warming Reduced to Raw Emotion at People’s Climate March: Updates
The Summa Contra Gentiles sequence will return next and not this week as announced last week. Why? Because I forgot the zombies were going to take to the streets---again. Like…
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Stairway To Heaven, Or To Atheism? — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
What does 'a bustle in the hedgerow' mean? I'm referring to a previous post, wherein I said Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Paige was a liar. Why? Because there isn't 'still time…
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Vox Populi vs. Experts
On 7 March 1907, Francis Galton wrote a brief, but interesting article for Nature entitled Vox Populi, which opens, "In these democratic days, any investigation into the trustworthiness and peculiarities…
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Leftists Ramping Up The Violence: How Long Until They Kill Somebody?
Stream: Leftists Ramping Up The Violence: How Long Until They Kill Somebody? How long before somebody gets killed by an enraged leftist? Let's start a pool. I'll be the bookie…
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Home School College
Note: a more thorough review of Esolen's book is coming very soon. Thanks to Ben Franklin, it has always been possible to home-school yourself to a college education. Libraries let…
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Bill Nye Pervs Science—Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46h-LfNWPn8 I'm interrupting the regularly scheduled post---I had hoped to squeeze in some reality this week and give us something to be cheerful about---to bring you another segment of Bill…
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The Democratization of Science Is A Bad Thing: Or, Why Bill Nye Perving Science Was Inevitable
https://twitter.com/ecigcaffeineboy/status/856388900159447040 It's Science! The democratization of any field of human knowledge is a bad thing; thus, the democratization of science is not something to celebrate but to mourn. By democratization…
