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About Half Will Not Pay Federal Income Tax: Plus, A Solution To This Unfairness

What's to stop a large bloc of voters from joining forces to create laws so that they get a free ride, that they, in effect, make everybody else pay their…

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Podcast Radio Show – Episode #2: The Limits of Human Knowledge and The Singularity

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_30sep2009_0002.mp3[/podcast] On today's show: Update 3 Oct: The show appears to be available on iTunes. Search Podcasts for "Briggs" under "Title." If anybody has difficulties downloading, please let me know.…

Culture

The Theory of Increasing Government Idiocy

In software, it's called feature creep. This is the bloat or encrustation that forms on a working computer program. It is caused by adding overly specific functions that originate with…

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Coincidence?

Link.

Culture

Blasphemy Contest!

No, I am not kidding; and, no, it isn't mine. But, asinine as it sounds, a real-life, swear-against-God, Blasphemy contest. The so-called Center for Inquiry (CFI) is an off-shoot, rather…

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Podcast Radio Show—Episode #1: The Mind of the Climate Activist

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/ep_23sep2009_0001.mp3[/podcast] Welcome to the first show! Update If you are want to download, but are unfamiliar how, click the Podcasts RSS feed on the left part of the webpage. You'll…

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Guest Post: The Case of America’s Missing Rebellion

Today's guest post is from William J Briggs, my number one son. Note that it's J and not M: he's named after my father. Last night NYC was host to…

Culture

But what about the children!

Satan is eating your babies! Well, not Satan himself. The Beautiful Red Master is obviously too busy for such detail, so the work has been farmed out to his willing…

JerryR on Class 3: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Belief & FaithApril 23, 2024
"Or is it turtles all the way down" This is an expression commonly used and in actuality is the basis…
JerryR on Class 3: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Belief & FaithApril 23, 2024
“ And what caused the existence of this entity that exists outside of time and space” Nothing. It does not…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 23, 2024
Not a bad soap box speech, Johnno, not bad at all. Couple points though we might discuss next time we're…
Briggs on Bipartisan Means The Fix Is InApril 23, 2024
They are everywhere, Yawrate.
Johnno on Bipartisan Means The Fix Is InApril 23, 2024
U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!! U.S.A... I mean... U.Ka.Raine!!! U.Ka.Raine!!! U.Ka.Raine!!! The war is not meant to be won, it's meant to be…