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Ugly Women Rulers Condemn Lookism
It was right after women seized majority control of Congress that the woman we all know as The Big Talker revealed to her husband (that balding tenured sociologist at Bryn…
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The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!
https://youtu.be/PnW39ywWotc Lyrics [Verse 1]Oh the scientists are publishin', crankin' out those papers fastThey got a tiny pee-value, think they made it at long lastPoint oh five or lower, they shout…
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Wolfgang Smith For Everyone
The late Wolfgang Smith was fond of quoting St Thomas Aquinas from Summa Contra Gentiles (Book II, ch. 3): It is absolutely false to maintain, with reference to the truths…
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Death By Organ Donation
I have to hand it to the trio of "doctors" who wrote the peer-reviewed NEJM paper "Contextualizing the Dead Donor Rule in an Era of Voluntary Euthanasia". They didn't seek…
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$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
Let's take something silly and turn it into something shiny. And, in doing so, relearn the invaluable lesson that nothing has a probability. Somebody posted this receipt from a sale…
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Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap Hanekamp
One thing I didn't take precaution against was my own stupidity. A marvelous and constant, menacing thing you would think that, if anybody, I would have been ready for. You…
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Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics
Next time you slide a Pringle over your tonsils, blame God. It was your unhealthy attitude to religion that made you crave that Oreo. Your inability to think proper thoughts…
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Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics
You will have heard that David Hume claimed ethical oughts cannot be derived from any factual is (empirical observation). This is called Hume's Guillotine, presumably for the great number of…
