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Russia Subtracted Most People; India Added Most.

It's Friday and time for something light. In 2006, Russia lost 732,000 people. Don't bother searching for them, because most of them were never born. Its neighbor Ukraine also misplaced…

Statistics

The Pournelle vs. Nolan Chart: Political Throwdown

Before Jerry Pournelle began writing science fiction; before, that is, he teamed with Larry Niven to write the classic Lucifer's Hammer1, he was a political scientist. Pournelle was dissatisfied with…

Statistics

Feigned Surprises of the Week: Journolist and Our New Tax

Said the main-stream journalist on Journolist, "If they of the right wing don't behave and treat our Golden Boy properly, we'll call them racists. It matters not whom we pick…

Culture Statistics

New York’s Induced Terminations Of Pregnancy

New York City's Health Department (motto: It's for your own good!) released its annual birth and death statistics, and the internet is aflutter, particularly over the numbers on abortion. "Raw"…

Philosophy

Rousseau And The New York Times

It All Started With Rousseau 'The General Will is always righteous.' Moreover, provided the State is 'well-intentioned'...interpretation of the General Will can safely be left to the leaders since 'they…

Fun

Free Mumia! And Tunisia! A Play In One Act

Update: I have been informed that this play is anything but clear (thank you!). So. Every resolution listed below was indeed adopted by the California Federation of Teachers at their…

Culture

City Of Free Love To Ban Circumcision

An enraged citizen's group in San Francisco has submitted legislation that, if passed, would ban abortion---no, wait. I have that wrong. They would ban circumcision. In a fit of Enlightenment…

Statistics

Stop making babies to reduce global warming

The other day, as a favor, I posted a scientific article from a friend of mine, Dr H. Harrister, PhD, who conclusively showed that fitter people have larger carbon footprints…

Tillman Eddy on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 20, 2024
GROAN!! Dad joke… Tillman
PhilH on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 20, 2024
Have to agree with Briggs that cannibals have no taste: I’ve tried eating cannibals and they’re pretty bland.
Tillman Eddy on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 20, 2024
“ The local truth they believe is that cutting off a little boy's testicles will turn him into a girl.‘…
stoichastic on If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?April 19, 2024
And who could forget the other canard of the century: quantum computing "climate change" giving us the inimitable "Quantum computing…
stoichastic on If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?April 19, 2024
I tried to break the algorithm by invoking canardception, alas, like Rule 42, I failed in my endeavour: string theory…