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Insanity & Doom Update XXXIII
Item Noname talks trauma, transitions and Telefone It's a few weeks before the Women's March, and Chicago rapper Noname (aka Fatimah Warner) is explaining how the song Bye Bye Baby,…
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Music, God’s Gift to Man–and to Robots? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Editor's note: The original post can be seen at Kurland's place. A few days ago my wife pointed out a news item announcing a robot that (or who?) can compose…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXII
This week: academics gone mad. Item It's Official: The Left Says Statistics Are Racist According to Campus Reform, a paper authored by three British professors argues that statistics "frequently encode…
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Do Nones Really Have No Religion?
Bishop Robert Barron delivered this year's Erasmus Lecture last Monday, "Evangelizing the Nones", sponsored by First Things magazine. Your Roving Reporter was there. Nones are those who profess, when asked…
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Plato, Bloom & Wan Baochang On The Destructive Power Of Bad Music
Wan Baochang (whom I learned of from Richard Spacek) lived some 1,500 years ago. According to the The Taoism Reader, Wan had a spiritual revelation in which he was told…
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What’s With Elites Eating People? Katy Perry’s New Video—And More!
So it looks like singer Katy Perry enjoys eating people. Not raw, which would represent an old-fashioned and suburban sort of cannibalism. But prepared in various artistic ways set to…
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Insanity & Doom Update III
Item Canada Introduces 'X' as a Third Sex Category for Passport Holders Starting on Aug. 31, Canadians will have a new way to identify their sex on passports and other…
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Happy 3000th Post!
Happy 3000th Post! I know just how you feel. Like it's 30,000 posts. Still, I am glad you are here. But I have to ask: why are you here? If…
