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The Protocols Of The Elders Of Big Oil
Before you're used to it, it can be both fascinating and amusing to listen to the ravings of a lunatic. The way they can weave tales of persecution and nefarious…
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Predictions 2014—Register Yours Today!
What will happen in the world in 2014? You have until 10 January to tell us in the comments below. Let's hope we're more accurate than we were last year,…
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How’d We Do On Our 2013 Predictions?
We have proved yet again that the future is that undiscovered country with our predictions for 2013. See the original guesses here. Don't make new predictions here. Tomorrow I'll start…
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Update On Woman In Combat
The Marines have announced "women aren't able to make the minimum standard of three pull-ups." And "a deadline mandating that they do at least 3 pull-ups by Jan. 1, 2014…
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Probability And Shot Groupings
Reader Paul Mullen writes: I was reading the WikiPedia page on "accurizing" firearms, and came across a claim I find suspicious: Statistical likelihood says the fewer shots that are fired,…
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The Endangered Species Act & Counterfactual Arguments
Most species that have ever lived on this our glorious planet Earth have been put on permanent hiatus. And by "most" I mean something approaching, but obviously not yet reaching,…
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Putting The Squeeze On Bob Newhart, Duck Dynasty
The culture war continues, with most of the battles still being won by the side which employs its devastatingly effective Shock Shrill Squad (the SSS). Two examples. Heard of Legatus?…
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Causation And Correlation
Our friend Christopher Monckton of Brenchley wrote a piece over at Anthony Watt's place in which he said (Reader KA Rodgers asked me to have a look): CO2 concentration continues…