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Definitions of Equality
Just definitions today, folks. We'll need them later. You'd think a lot of these would be obvious. Experience shows they are not. This article is solely about equality of outcomes…
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Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl Ad and the Washington Post Editorial
Very delicate ground, here. I want to be as precise as I know how in discussing the language used in today's Washington Post editorial about the upcoming Tim Tebow ad,…
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Intelligent Design is Mostly Harmlessness: Reply to Eugenie Scott
Eugenie C. Scott Executive Director National Center for Science Education Dear Ms Scott, Thank you for your recent letter informing me of the efforts of your fine organization to discourage…
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Obamacare: Sympathy for Homeopathy?
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine was tacked forcibly onto the National Institute of Health after Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) thought more attention ought to…
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Newsweek: Priests Abuse at Same Rate as Non-Priests?
Newsweek (hat tip to Hot Air) writes, "The priesthood is being cast as the refuge of pederasts. In fact, priests seem to abuse children at the same rate as everyone…
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Martin Gardner, Philosophical Scrivener, RIP
All regular readers will surely know Martin Gardner, writer, philosopher, mathematician, magician, exposer of flim flam. He died Saturday night; according to long-time friend and magician James Randi, peacefully. For…
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What Makes Music Bad? A New Scale: Part I, the Definition
It might have been coming out of the air space between her ear buds and flesh, or it might have been seeping through the holes in the woman's head. Either…
World Cup, Statistics, Movie Lines, Cracked, and Clubbing
USA 1, Small Island Nation 1 Fabio Capello, pictured left, shows us the tracks his tears took after Robert Green revealed his American sympathies by suspiciously letting a shot through---a…
