My Dear Friends, and, yes, Enemies, Happy New Year. As has been our tradition these many years, it’s time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well […]
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Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving
In what is now a tradition, we present for Thanksgiving the death prayer of Old Lodge Skins, which comes at the close of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger (who himself died […]
Are Movies Getting Worse?
This post originally ran 26 July 2011. I should have mentioned the recency bias in the citizens, and that most critics nowadays are woke dweebs. But this was before the Great Awokening, […]
A Priest And A Reporter Walk Into A Bar — A Mini Play In One Act
This post originally ran 6 October 2012. PLAYERS: Father Quinn, in uniform. A Bartender, Murphy, in uniform. A reporter, Bradford, looking hip. Other patrons may be added as set dressing, but who […]
How’d We Do On Our 2019 Predictions?
A strong no prize this year. Nobody did well enough. Not enough specific predictions, or those that were specific did not come to pass. Doom predictions are too easy: they needed to […]
CONTEST! Produce Better Parody Of Christianity Than Nicholas Kristof & Serene Jones
We’ve had many contests over the years, dear readers, varying in their difficulty and intellectual challenge. This time I have the true test, the consummate conundrum, the summit of stumpers. I’m launching […]
A Coincidence: Coyne Zinged Me Before I Him — Or, The Coyne Fallacy Redux
After posting yesterday’s article, Jerry Coyne Doesn’t Have Free Will (poor fellow), I immediately saw hits coming to my place from Coyne’s. It turned out that, unbeknownst to me, the afternoon before, […]
Reader Questions About Men’s Fashion
Dr. Briggs, I just reread your post “Top 10 Men’s fashion rules” and it has much more meaning to me now that I am a bit older and more ‘professional’ than I […]
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