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Snot-nosed Brown University Brats Throw Temper Tantrum
When is the last time you saw a bratty kid throw a temper tantrum? If you were a professor at an American university, probably right after midterms. But if you…
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Marines To Allow Females In Ground Combat
Answer this plain question honestly. Should the Olympics and other major sporting events eliminate distinction by sex? That is, should the 100 meter dash (do they still call them "dashes"?),…
Rick Santorum Says Devil Pwons Hollywood
Santorum was out flogging a movie in which he has an interest---The Christmas Candle---and was heard to say of more traditional Hollywood fare that "the Devil for a long, long…
The Most Depressing Picture Of The Year
Ladies and gentlemen, the most depressing picture of the year. Yes, worse than the pic of Joe Biden bringing muffins to lock-ins during the government shutdown. These, my dear readers,…
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Tea Partiers Know As Much Science As Enlightened Lefties?
So this Dan Kahan, Yale prof of something-or-other, devised himself a science quiz. "The center of the Earth is very hot [true/false]." That sort of thing. He gave the quiz's…
The Night Fred Astaire Shot Up Broadway
From hellion Fred Astair's autobiography Steps In Time, Harper & Row, New York, 1981 edition, p. 34. The year was about 1910 [emphasis mine]: I'll always remember Dick Moeller shooting…
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Anti-Human Leader: Every Woman, Everywhere, Could Have Contraception
"Isn't she pretty. What's her name?" "Susan. After my grandmother." "Have you had her fixed yet?" Don't fret! That's a conversation you won't be hearing. Because why? Because, of course,…
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Pascal & Barzun On Scientism
Blaise Pascal was a man smarter than I and smarter than thou. He was a scientist, mathematician, probabilist, and was deeply, deeply Catholic. Pascal as scientist warned against trusting science…