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Another Fool Calls For My Arrest: Or, Adam Weinstein Slips A Nut

Another eek-screeching scrawny-brained bug-witted pretty-boy addled cancerous ferret has called for my arrest. My crime? Sanity. Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein), writing at a place with the puerile name of "Gawker"---come to…

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Party’s Over, Baby: The Twilight of Abundance Reviewed

The Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short by David Archibald, visiting Fellow Institute of World Politics. I am a curmudgeon, which…

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On Nate Silver’s Republicans-Take-The-Senate Prediction

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend. ---Henry IV, part…

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Evidence Does Not Support Low Consumption Of Total Saturated Fats

The full version of the headline is this: Current evidence does not clearly support cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated…

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HANDY Not So Dandy: NASA-Funded Mathematical Model Of Doom

Mathematically minded Remember back in the 1990s when otherwise intelligent people would look to the scientific literature and say, "Those guys must be right. They used a computer model." A…

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Pick Your Lotto Numbers With a Greater Chance to Win? Paper From Brazil

The Blaze ran a story with headline "Mathematician Thinks There's a Way to Pick Your Lotto Numbers With a Greater Chance to Win". Turns out Renato Gianella thinks he's discovered…

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Global Warming Hanger-On Says Ends Justify The Means

A question from the new SAT in Reading Comprehension was leaked: "'The students rushed the platform to prevent the speaker from speaking.' Were these students, (A) progressives, or (B) conservatives?"…

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The One-True-Religion Fallacy. (It’s Not What You Think)

At the end of the eponymous movie, the slave army led by gladiator-cum-general Spartacus (Kirk Dougla) lies defeated before the creator of the First Triumvirate, General Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence…

Rich on Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save UsOctober 5, 2026
We've all done this: On an old-fashioned calculator type "07734". Turn it upside-down. Friends say, "Ooh look! It says 'hello'".…
NLR on Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save UsOctober 5, 2026
If machines were said to be conscious, it would come about not because the notion of consciousness was expanded, but…
shawn marshall on Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save UsOctober 5, 2026
a prominent exorcist talks about demons using cell phones = it is generally accepted by exorcists that demons can effect…
Trebics on Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?October 4, 2026
Truth, Goodness, Beauty. Thank you for dispensing truth, much needed. You, also, like Isaiah, talk mostly to the remnant, and…
APC Carrier on Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?October 3, 2026
it is not about the carelessness of others or their responsiveness. It is about the fact that if you are…