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Movie Review: Calvary. Guest Post By The Blonde Bombshell
If you've seen the trailer or read a review of Calvary, you may get the impression that the movie is a mystery set in a quaint Irish village. If you've…
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New York City’s St Patrick’s Day Parade Caves: Update
In the end they caved for the oldest of reasons. Money. And now, flush with cash, the world has yet another parade devoted to (anti-evolutionary) sexual desire. As if we…
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Dan Farber, Berkeley Lawyer, Confused Climate Clinger
For the art of the sophist is the semblance of wisdom without the reality, and the sophist is one who makes money from an apparent but unreal wisdom. ---Aristotle Dan…
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The Global Warming Non-Expert Expert
Reporteritis is the disease, or rather psychiatric condition, common among journalists, brought on by exposure to important people and events. The exposure causes the journalist to feel that he too…
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Latest Threat To Global Warming? In Vitro Fertilization
Stop me if you're heard this one before. An academic, educated well beyond her capabilities, having a lot of free time on her hands, and frightened past the point of…
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Government To Issue Baby Licenses
Regular readers will recall that I am a (self-appointed) bioethicist, a post I take on not because I need the work, but because the professionals are making such a hash…
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Gibbon (And O’Brian) On Too Many Lawyers
This is Gibbon, quoted in Patrick O'Brian's The Reverse of the Medal by the character Dr Stephen Maturin, who then speaks: '"It is dangerous to entrust the conduct of nations…
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Making Gay Okay Reviewed. Part I, The Acts
Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything, by Robert R. Reilly (Ignatius Press: sample chapter). It's common in medicine to track men who have (or who simulate)…