So the sodomy enjoying non-Irish leader of the Irish, who famously declared there were too many whites in Ireland’s government, his very words, now “says new hate speech laws” will be implemented […]
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Worst Science Fiction of All Time
Shoot to kill July 1995 I wrote this in 1995 and had it posted to my student website at Cornell. I thought that it was lost forever, and I only managed to […]
Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving
In what is now long tradition, we present for Thanksgiving the death prayer of Old Lodge Skins, which comes at the close of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger (who himself died […]
Humpty Dumpty Takes On The Sports Illustrated Curse — Guest Post by Jim Fedako
We continue our Thanksgiving week of pleasant stories, today with a guest post by Jim Fedako. “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just […]
What Makes A Casino Gamble Different Than Making A Decision Under Uncertainty?
We continue with our week of pleasant Thanksgiving topics. A cop in the police procedural Hell Is A City (start around 54 minutes) discerned one of the bad guys he was chasing […]
The Statistics Of Stopping Power
It is a slow week, and a week of Thanks, so let’s spend our time with some fun things. Like a fascinating study by Greg Ellifritz on “An Alternate Look at Handgun […]
Refereeing Models Which Ask Us To “Follow The Science!”
I’m stealing this from Spectator, which has done science right. It shows the UK’s SAGE Expert models for covid. In each case, the gray and others colors are the model predictions, and […]
How Our Dictator Arrives: Surfing On A Wave Of Paperwork — Review of the Forgotten ‘The Law of Longer Life’ by Parkinson & Le Compte
The list of authors who have theories on how civilizations end is not small: Ibn Kaldun, Spengler, Toynbee, Strauss and Howe, Turchin, Glubb all stress that civilizations have existed but not longer […]
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