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Insanity & Doom Update XXVI
Item The conceptual penis as social construct. (Don't let the title fool you: this item does not go where you think.) We've all had our digital mishaps: sharing a link…
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The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Administrators
We last met Ron Srigley in the pages of the LA Review of Books lamenting the sad state of students and professors. He's back to tell us the infuriating tale…
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Richard Dawkins’ Cannibalism Suggestion is Hard to Digest
Part of a high protein, low reason diet Don't accept any dinner invitations to Richard Dawkin's house. You might be asked to swallow more than his bizarre idea that God…
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Uncertainty: The Soul of Models, Probability & Statistics. Chapter Abstracts
This post originally appeared right before the Uncertainty did. Now that we're 1.5 years out, it's time for a re-post. Buy it now, but it today, and buy it again…
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Take Burnham’s Test To See If You’re A Progressive: Suicide of the West at 50
This classic column appeared in July 2015. Besides some editing, I would now change 'liberal' to 'progressive', which I have done in the title. I made no other change. See…
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Courting Climate Comedy
The descent of climate science into the surreal is about to take another comedic slide. A judge has ordered the State of California and a handful of oil companies to…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: All Things Are Ordered To God
Previous post. Some simple and, I hope, non-controversial (accepting that which came before) proofs that God is the ultimate end. That All Things Are Ordered to One End Who Is…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXV
Item Why LIM wants a ban on sibling marriage. (This article is in Norwegian, a language I do not speak; therefore, I used Google translate: use caution. I quote first…