What Day Most Changed History?
Such was the title of The Atlantic's "The Big Question" column of March, 2013. This is the sort of piece one finds uppermost in the toilet's magazine rack. So now…
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Anno Aetheris Scriptori XLVIII
What we see in today's title the result of a lack of education. Latin nouns have more declensions than Chicago Aldermen have ways for a dead man to vote. I…
Unleash The Giant Puppets!
Need a job? Fancy working with your hands? How about this? Looking for 3 puppetistas to man this giant creepy Romney puppet [pictured below] during the RNC (and beyond). No…
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Are You Good At Picking Football Games? Edgehogs
I haven't met a die-hard sports fan yet who hasn't claimed to be able to pick games better than everybody else. Just as I haven't met a gambler who hasn't…
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What Is Science? Part I
Science says this, science says that. There is no more loquacious entity these days than science. What is it? Climatologists talk of the science. Physicists compliment by saying a fellow…
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Global Warming Increases Disastrous Music: A Scientific Paper
A scientific paper in a grand tradition (notice the scientific formatting and use of p-values): the custom is to read only the Abstract; only the brave and bored should venture…
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The Implications Of Yesterday’s Global Warming Post
There was nothing in the world wrong with my scientific paper "Global Warming Increases Disastrous Music: A Scientific Paper." Nothing, that is, that isn't wrong with any paper which seeks,…
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Muppets Offer Human Sacrifice!
Finally! I offer tangible proof that listening to the Beatles can drive one to evil. Prolonged, repetitious exposure to their music causes madness leading, in rare cases, to human sacrifice!…
