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There Are Too Many Fat People: What To Do About It. Update: Bloomberg Bans Soda Pop

Update Mike Bloomberg, current owner of New York City's mayoral title, has graciously allowed (by not yet banning) me to re-publish this article which expresses a sentiment dear to Mayor…

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Grade Inflation

Via GradeInflation.com via Mark Perry via HotAir comes this telling picture. Be sure to read the original site. Although Stuart Rojstaczer doesn't have much data from Community Colleges, he does…

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On The Murder And Death Of Classical Music

It is difficult to discover one word which adequately and non-misleadingly describes what is today called "music" and what used to go by that name a century or more ago.…

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The Last Cruise Of The USS Iowa

The USS Iowa on its last trip I was aboard the SS Jeremiah O'Brien yesterday when the USS Iowa was towed from its berth up San Francisco bay and…

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Richard Dawkins Turns Gideon?

Today a story which falls under Bets You Would Have Lost. Angry atheist (sounds like a board game) Richard Dawkins said he would have "contributed financially to the scheme" of…

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What Organic Boors, Swedish Pronouns, And The Exorcist Have In Common

Not much, except to demonstrate that the natural state of modernity is something closely resembling mass lunacy. To explain. Swedish Pronouns Via Sam Schulman â€(Twitter: @Sam_Schulman) we infer that 1984…

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Holocaust Survivor Compares Climate Skeptics To Hitler Deniers

Micha Tomkiewicz is a physicist who tells us he was a child in the Warsaw Ghetto and Bergen-Belsen during World War II when the Nazis (and Soviets) were gleefully murdering…

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Dutch Doctors’ Strange New House Calls

Dr Overlijden of Levenseindekliniek A new contest is in order, if it doesn't already exist. Each year we should recognize and award the person or group who invents the best…

Cary D Cotterman on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
I live and breathe as proof that ugly does not equal woke.
Gespenst on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 19, 2024
Heresolong, We're talking about modern Israel here.
Jim Fedako on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
"Critics 'are not merely authoritarian, they demonstrate pervasive normative rigidity that comes from Christian fear of judgement,'" says Boghossian while…
Heresolong on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 19, 2024
"Israel was created as a result of the Balfour declaration with Britain. " Might want to read up on the…
Incitadus on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
What a set of pricelessly insane headlines one hardly knows where to begin but remember the sole intention is to…