Culture – Page 185 – William M. Briggs

Briggs And The Owl: A Refutation Of Atheism

Note this is not your usual author."The owl of Minerva spreads its wings and takes flight when the shades of night are falling." --Hegel Or, as explained by Wikipedia, "[P]hilosophy…

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Prosecute Global Warming Heretics. Update 2: Kill, Nuremberg Them, Too!

Prosecute the heretics! is the new cry from the high priests of global warming. Climate "deniers", they say, are no better than mobsters, good fellas who are extorting the climate,…

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From Latin & Greek To Remedial English

From Twitter's @LeMarquand came this picture: An overstatement, sure. Not every high school went in for amo, amas, amat or saw students parsing snatches of The Odyssey in the original.…

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The “Right” To This, That, And The Other Thing

A good friend of mine, an inveterate lefty who tortures himself by reading Think Progress and other horror sites designed to confirm the worst fears of their readers, posted this…

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Surprise! A Professional Organization Comes Out Against Euthanasia

https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/436146531503058946 In James Bradley's Flyboys he relates how the Japanese in Manchuria would line up Chinese citizens for the benefit of Japanese army recruits to bayonette. Most were squeamish at…

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Scientists: Moral Traits Considered Most Essential Part Of Identity

Answer me this. You're on the job and the fancy iH20 cooler (with remote iPhone app) blows and shoots a bolt through your skull. The doctors say removing the bolt…

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On Intelligence & Religiosity

Take a pencil and paper---do this---and write down the most intelligent people who have ever lived. Most brilliant in any field of endeavor, now. Who were the best of us?…

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Researchers Invent Exciting New Disease: Poverty Blindness

There must soon come a day at The Onion, the satirical newspaper, when the editors will gather in bewilderment and say to each other, "Fellas, there's no use. The real…

KGB on The Perfect Conspiracy TheoryDecember 1, 2025
It reminds me of the comedian Vince Champ, and Norm Macdonald's summation of Vince's habit of raping college students while…
JH on The Apples In A Sack Paradox: Solve It Or You Get No Pie TomorrowDecember 1, 2025
Infinity is neither a number nor something measurable.
Cloudbuster on The Perfect Conspiracy TheoryDecember 1, 2025
Once Garth Brooks killed a man to help cover up the Moon landing hoax.
Tars Tarkas on The Perfect Conspiracy TheoryDecember 1, 2025
While I am generally not one drawn to conspiracies, it's not like they are uncommon. Conspiracy is probably in the…
McChuck on The Perfect Conspiracy TheoryDecember 1, 2025
In my previous employment with the federal government, I had to travel a lot, all over the world. The number…