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What Went Wrong In Ireland, And What Will Go Wrong Here
What went awry in Ireland was not the result of the vote, a result which was, of course, the wrong decision. The offense was something much deeper, something basic. It…
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Something To Cheer The Irish (And The Rest Of Us)
Given the state of the world, and because this is a long weekend with scarcely anyone around, this picture. It is Bubba Anderson, a (then) girl who went to the…
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The Week In Doom: Nervous Sheep & Intolerant Irish
https://twitter.com/LADFLEG/status/602012010470080512 Return of the snakes As of this writing, Ireland has voted 60%-ish to allow two men or two women---and only two at this point; arbitrary discrimination, no?---to pretend to…
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Gay-conversion Therapy Bans And The Origin Of Homosexual
When "gay" or "homosexual" meant somebody who predominately engaged in same-sex activities, the words had some use, but with an inherent and real danger that people, via this language, would…
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Ireland’s Same-Sex Gmarriage Vote: Or, The Snakes Return?
Update See Saturday's post for results. Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has "no wish to stuff [his] religious views down other people's throats"---is that done with a shillelagh?---and so he won't…
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Are Wars And Violence Decreasing? Taleb’s New Paper Reviewed
The vale of tears I've been asked by several people to comment on Pasquale Cirillo and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's paper (thankfully, not peer-reviewed, unless you count this) "On the tail…
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Democracy And The Global Warming Consensus—And That New Arizona Survey
Guy named Jonathan Overpeck who makes a living ensuring people are nervous about global warming conducted a survey of Arizona residents and discovered three-fourths of them are nervous about global…
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Vote For Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan For President: It’s The Intelligent Thing To Do
I normally don't vote in presidential elections because the choices are between flavors of progressivism---D-type, R-type, etc.---and I desire none. But scrappy "transhumanist" Zoltan Istvan has changed my mind. He…