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David Stove: Annotated List of Books
If you have not yet done so, I want you to read David Stove, one of the best philosophers of the twentieth century, a man who wrote with such clarity…
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Planet Earth Al Gore Explains ‘Snowmageddon’: Fox News Story
I was quoted by Gene Koprowski in his Fox News story "Planet Earth Al Gore Explains 'Snowmageddon'". (This accounted for the several hundred Google and other search engine redirects to…
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Why Memes Are Stupid: The Short Version
In 1976, in his The Selfish Gene, a book which revealed that most of us are slaves to our genes, biologist Richard Dawkins "discovered" the meme which, in one definition,…
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Happy 1000th Post!
This is it! The nine-hundred-ninety-ninth-plus-one post! The post whose number is a pleasing and large (relatively speaking) power of ten! The post that pushes us over the top of the…
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A New (Old) View Of Statistics. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 11
It is often difficult to keep in mind all the links in a chain of argument when that chain is long.1 This is especially so when one expects that chain…
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David Stove, PMS Admakers Apologize For PMS Apology Ad, San Franciscan Criminals, More
David Stove David Stove has a posthumous essay, put out in book form: What’s Wrong With Benevolence: Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment. There is a review at…
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Roger Kimball’s Challenge
The famous writer Roger Kimball has issued a challenge: Name the silliest argument to be offered by a serious academic in the last 25 years and to be taken up…
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The Pathetic Madonna
The insane level of self-regard and idiotic self-indulgent behavior we accept from our celebrities should embarrass us. There will always be utterly spoiled brats, but that these blots on humanity…
