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Air Force Eliminates Physical Fitness Standards, NASA Thinks Men Are Women

To help celebrate your Dependence Day, this exciting news from our boys---and girls!---and its!---in blue: "The new Air Force fitness test will feature walking instead of running and modified push-ups".…

Fun

Happy Fourth of July

Fun

We Will Never Really Know What 95 F Feels Like

Headline: "Newark, New Jersey, set a record at 102 degrees with a feels like temperature of 109 degrees." Thus are Newarkians (Newarkers?) denied the opportunity of knowing what a temperature…

Culture

Hating That Which Is Evil & Fined For It

There are various translations of Paul's letter to the Romans, but while the words differ, the substance remains the same: Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast…

Statistics

America Is A Conquered Country Which Flies A Foreign Flag

It's a practice as ancient as warfare itself. The victor tears down the enemy's totem and replaces it with his own. How many battles have we read about in which…

Statistics

Fauci Flashback; Vexxine Harms; Conspiracies; Rally Report; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXVII

GAFFE OR PLANNED? https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1409312700291747847 Old, but not forgotten. VEXXINE HARM WSJ: Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised? One remarkable aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic has been how often unpopular scientific…

$The Nightmare Of The Woke & The Elimination Of Standards$

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The Nightmare Of The Woke & The Elimination Of Standards

Here's the news from the Great White-Supremacist-No-More North: The Vancouver School Board is cutting honours programs for secondary school students effective this fall. Honours math and science will be cut,…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity XI

Previous post. We continue the, admittedly very long, investigation into the Holy Ghost. ON THE EFFECTS ATTRIBUTED TO THE HOLY SPIRIT IN SCRIPTURE REGARDING THE WHOLE CREATION 1 One must,…

Marbles! – William M. Briggs on Marbles!June 24, 2026
[…] I am on the road and am way behind on posts—I have a 3,500 word article on deriving Oughts…
Brian (bulaoren) on Marbles!June 24, 2026
For the past 48 hours, I've been considering a fundamental, structural, problem with marbles; " Marmorism". Some people will accumulate…
John Pate on Marbles!June 23, 2026
Marbles was a thing in my primary school in Cambridge, England in the sixties. I don't recall girls ever playing…
Jess on Marbles!June 23, 2026
Somewhere, I have my brother's bag of marbles. I sometimes think I should go through them to see if there…
Cary D Cotterman on Marbles!June 23, 2026
In the summer of 1960, in Fresno, California, I lost my promotional "KYNO Top-Dog Radio" boulder in a game of…