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Casual Sex Is Good for You, Says New Biased Study

In a ridiculously biased "study", a researcher has shown that some college students who self-select to participate in a study of "causal" sex and who say they like having "casual"…
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Final Proof Global Warming Purely Political

Regular readers will have expected the next installment in our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. This will appear next week after my class is over. I may say that the…
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Teaching Comes First. But Only If You Bring In Grants. And Publish

Since it's teaching time, via Nick B Steves via Bruce Charlton comes this reminiscence of Oxford in the 1970s. In the 70s it was still possible for a distinguished head…
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On What’s Behind The Notes In Music

As (then) Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen said1: [I]t is impossible to have any kind of evolution [change] without something that evolves or a change without permanence...It is no escape from…
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Educators Disease Reaching Epidemic Levels, Experts

Mr X is a principal at the Martin Elementary School in New Kensington, Pennsylvania (his name is not being released under medical orders). Up until last week Mr X was…
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Secret Science Reform Act of 2014

Honesty & Science Your government wouldn't lie to you, would it? Well, maybe not lie, as in tell outright blatant whoppers. No government agent would do that. But your beneficent…
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If You Disagree You Are Full Of Hate, You Bigot

I knew she meant the cigar, but I pretended not to hear. "What you're doing is wrong," she repeated. "Oh, it's not so bad," I said. I was sitting on…
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Is Laverne Cox Still A Man? Or, The Coming Transgender Wars

Meet Bob. Bob is 38 and possess an X and Y chromosome. He has been married to Cindy for almost 10 years and has with her sired two children. But…
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