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Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving
In what is now long 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…
Posted inFun
Humpty Dumpty Takes On The Sports Illustrated Curse — Guest Post by Jim Fedako
We continue our Thanksgiving week of pleasant stories, today with a guest post by Jim Fedako. “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it…
Posted inPhilosophy
What Makes A Casino Gamble Different Than Making A Decision Under Uncertainty?
We continue with our week of pleasant Thanksgiving topics. A cop in the police procedural Hell Is A City (start around 54 minutes) discerned one of the bad guys he…
Posted inStatistics
The Statistics Of Stopping Power
It is a slow week, and a week of Thanks, so let's spend our time with some fun things. Like a fascinating study by Greg Ellifritz on "An Alternate Look…
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Refereeing Models Which Ask Us To “Follow The Science!”
I'm stealing this from Spectator, which has done science right. It shows the UK's SAGE Expert models for covid. In each case, the gray and others colors are the model…
Posted inBook review Culture
How Our Dictator Arrives: Surfing On A Wave Of Paperwork — Review of the Forgotten ‘The Law of Longer Life’ by Parkinson & Le Compte
The list of authors who have theories on how civilizations end is not small: Ibn Kaldun, Spengler, Toynbee, Strauss and Howe, Turchin, Glubb all stress that civilizations have existed but…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Sex With Dogs & Other Critters Back In Vogue, Thanks To Academic Peter Singer
Very long time readers will know that we warned that the creation of the notion of "sexual orientation", and the criminalizing of "discrimination" against "sexual orientations", logically implied that all…
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A Brief History Of The Palestine Grievance — Comments by the Late Glubb Pasha
We begin with an excerpt from the short book The Middle East Crisis: A Personal Interpretation by Glubb Pasha, published late in 1967. If you have any interest in the…
