Briggs

“If Uncle Sam ever gets whipped, here, too, it will be an inside job.”

I am on vacation for a few days. So I have a treat for you. This follows yesterday's post. Paul Harvey reminding us of inescapable facts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB42i0qg6A8 In which Harvey…

Culture

Malthus’s Proof That Welfare Leads To Increasing Need For Welfare Reexamined

This is an updated version of an original post that ran 3 February 2014. Here is a sketch of Malthus's argument that official government beneficence causes the problem it seeks…

Statistics

Researchers: Living Under The Sin-Of-Pride Flag Produces Flashbacks To Noah’s Flood

Read this The Science sentence with me and see if you enjoy it as much as I did: "Long before climate change, California’s Great Flood of 1862 stretched up to…

Culture

Why The Regime Insists Party Members Lie

Stay with me on this story. It's not big in itself, but telling. So a lefty politician is running for mayor in the Taiwan city of Taoyuan. He belongs to…

Philosophy

Sabine Hossenfelder Tries, Using Free Will, To Explain She Doesn’t Have Free Will

Here's a video Philosopher's Cabin asked me to review. We met its author, Sabine Hossenfelder, before, when she was trying to explain how black holes enhanced Diversity, or the other…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On The Priesthood

Previous post. Why priests are different. ON THE SACRAMENT OF ORDERS 1 It is, of course, clear from what has been said that in all the sacraments dealt with a…

Statistics

The Fall Of A Culture In One Minute Ten Seconds

It's all here, in this one video. The complete explanation for the last three years, and more. Sound on for the full horror: https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1556154856787873793 I have been informed by Experts…

Statistics

The Model That Dutch Rulers Rely On To Claim There Is A Nitrogen “Crisis” Has No Skill

Some rulers say there is a nitrogen "crisis", and others say there is a climate "crisis". There is no nitrogen "crisis", and there is no climate "crisis", neither. But since…

John Pate on Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With PersonalityOctober 23, 2026
The plasticity available in the brain and CNS is the confounding factor. Nature via nurture. What actually gets expressed is…
Brian (bulaoren) on Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With PersonalityOctober 22, 2026
Across the world, many jurisdictions ban pet "pit bulls". Are they in error?
NLR on Against Numerology: Some Basic CalculationsOctober 19, 2026
The mathematician Richard Guy wrote a paper "The strong law of small numbers", where he said, facetiously, but also serirously:…
aGrimm on Book UpdateOctober 16, 2026
I'm looking forward to the book; warts and all the first was enlightening and fun to read.
John Pate on Book UpdateOctober 14, 2026
I'm a big fan of LaTeX. I wrote a class package that made it into one or more of the…