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On Bias

UPDATE: some statistics on this from Investor's Business Daily. What would you think if you were reading a new research result, written by people who all had advanced academic degrees…
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A Rhetorical Question

A tip of the hat to Dennis Dutton's Arts and Letters Daily where this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education appeared. Incidentally, since the Chronicle bought out A&LD, there…
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More Art

The New Museum is hosting an exhibition entitled "After Nature" whose tagline is "THE earth will pass away with a great noise and there will be no place for it."…
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Shifting Baselines Syndrome

If you doubt any claim made about man-made global warming, Jennifer Jacquet thinks you are a "miscreant" and on par with those who deny that "smoking causes cancer." She also…
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Red State Update

If you haven't seen Jackie and Dunlap before, you've been missing out. Here's there take on the New Yorker's terrorist Obamas cover. Hilarious. They have an album coming out. The…
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Actual footage

UPDATE: Christian Toto, over at Pajama's Media, has seen the HBO Generation Kill and says "The new HBO miniseries on Iraq is well-executed, but its anti-war bias is clear." Make…