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Happy Anniversary: Clip Show
It's been one year to the day when I decided to offer a daily column. Below are the ones that did not turn out too badly. Funny Fun Wolf Blitzer…
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Happy 1000th Post!
This is it! The nine-hundred-ninety-ninth-plus-one post! The post whose number is a pleasing and large (relatively speaking) power of ten! The post that pushes us over the top of the…
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Zombie attacks might increase due to global warming, study shows
A new study by scientists has suggested that zombie attacks might increase if the current projections of global warming are realized. "If the earth gets warmer, it means longer springs,…
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San Francisco mandatory carbon-footprint reduction program begins
Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that San Francisco's mandatory carbon-footprint reduction program will begin as scheduled on the first of March. "There never was a problem as serious as global warming…
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Global Warming Stress Syndrome Increasing, Psychologist Says
There has been a disturbing increase in Global Warming Stress Syndrome (GWSS, pronounced gwiss) according to Dr. Ron N. Hyde, a clinical psychologist at the prestigious McKitrick Center for the…
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CONTEST: Preliminary Discussion of the “Best Internet Conspiracy Theory”
This is the first posting preliminary to the announcement of an Official Contest to find the Best Internet Conspiracy Theory. The Contest will be officially announced in about one week.…
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Lizards all male climate change club
Nature magazine reports this headline: Condemned to single-sex life by climate change. They are talking about a species of lizards called tuatara that live "on about 30 small islands in…
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Roger Kimball’s Challenge
The famous writer Roger Kimball has issued a challenge: Name the silliest argument to be offered by a serious academic in the last 25 years and to be taken up…
