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The Tale of Chief Harry Kidder: The US Navy’s On-The-Roof Gang by Matt Zullo Reviewed

The tale of Harry Kidder is a good but sad one. His story, and the stories of other radiomen before and during the Pacific War, are told in Matt Zulo's…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Correcting Errors About Baptism & The Eucharist

Previous post. The first set of errors about the Eucharist are fixed up this week. SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTIES SET DOWN: FIRST, ABOUT THE CONVERSION OF THE BREAD HIM THE…

Culture

Please Don’t Go To College — American Greatness

In the year of our Common Era 1625, Cardinal Richelieu made this prediction: "If learning were profaned by being made available to all and sundry, it would be found that…

Book review Culture

I May Have Been Asleep At The Start Of The Transexual Debacle — Guest Post by Robert Yoho

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (2021) by Abigail Shrier has over 6,000 Amazon reviews averaging 4.5 stars. It describes some of the events I missed over the last…

Statistics

Lancet Says 1 in 6 Worldwide Deaths by Pollution: 67% More Than Coronadoom

You've seen the headline, "World Ends: Favored Victims Hardest Hit," and you've laughed. The Noble Victims differ, slightly, by country. There is no class of being nobler or respected or…

Culture

Twitter Likes & Impact Factors Are Equivalent

This is one of my favorite tweets (regular readers have seen it before; it's screenshotted because all my tweets die tragically of coronadoom---it used to be cancer---after 7 days): Here…

Culture

The WHO and The Loss Of Sovereignty: How It Happens, How It’s Not Unusual

According to International Law---hold up. International Law? If there is such a thing as International Law, there is no such thing as national sovereignty; or, at least, not completely. For…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Errors About Baptism & The Eucharist

Previous post. Some common mistakes about baptism and the Eucharist, which are given this week and corrected next. Some of these are, to us, obviously bad. Some are subtler. ON…

Uncle Mike on Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady AcademicJune 17, 2026
Hahahaha! Well done. Especially the YT video wherein you can't stop laughing. Me either. It's tragicomic. Old karens, childless, worn…
NLR on Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady AcademicJune 17, 2026
The real issue with this is that it is an attempted justification for the studies departments to take over other…
Another “Curate’s Egg?” Comments on Magnifica Humanitas – The American Catholic on Laudato Si: “The Curate’s Egg.” The Not So Excellent Parts. Guest Post by Bob KurlandJune 15, 2026
[…] If ever one wanted an analogy to show that a flawed work had good parts, it would be the…
Truly Random Numbers Found? – William M. Briggs on Quantum Potency & ProbabilityJune 15, 2026
[…] Which leaves open the possibility we might gain at least some knowledge of non-local causes. This article gives one…
Brian (bulaoren) on Truly Random Numbers Found?June 15, 2026
Wait...Does this mean that all those non-winning lottery tickets, I've bought over the years, were drawn from non-randomly-generated numbers? I…