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Gallup: More Adults Identifying As LGBT(…), Which Implies Even More Will

For the purposes of full disclosure (as they say), I self-identify as a yak. Thus far I am the only known Yak-American. But once the advantages of yakitude become better…

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Orthodox Rabbi Suggests Adam & Eve ‘Black Transgender Refugees’

Trouble with words, is that if you're not diligent corruption can set in and cause a label to become garbled or meaningless. Such happened with conservative, which once meant "upholder…

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Could You Do Progressivism, But From The Right?

Today's discussion question is posed by somebody calling himself Iulian Bretonescu, in "The Right Religion", which is mandatory reading. Here, for the exceptionally lazy, is a brief summary. (The literature…

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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…

Cary Cotterman on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
Insider info says a roomful of chimps write Kamala Harris's public utterances. All the superhero movie scripts of the past…
Hagfish Bagpipe on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
Thats all well and good, Briggs, and pretty funny, too, but why not just torture the model until she says…
Paul Murphy on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
Reminds me a lot of stuff I used to do for fun - a great way to lose girlfriends, of…
Brian (bulaoren) on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
In an effort to narrow the gap; between Finite and Infinite, we might try compiling a list of fluent (public)…
Heresolong on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
I appreciate that they had a sense of humor about it but there is no "Finite Monkeys Theorem", there's only…