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Occupy Wall Street — Guest Post by William James Briggs

W.J. Briggs is your host's number one son. He ventured among the perpetually dissatisfied yesterday and files this report. A man poured a small bag of marijuana into half of…

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The Curse Of The Mouse: Apple vs. PC vs. Command Line

I hate, loathe, and abominate the mouse. Nay, not the wee sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie that I chase with a hockey stick (a hard-to-find, left-handed Easton) each winter through my…

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Jeffrey Sachs Saves The World

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey Sachs Says Jeffrey Sachs, economics professor at Columbia, "Economic theory indeed supports the view that high tax rates…

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Why Yom Kippur Is Sacred To This Priest — Guest Post by Father Brian Jordan

Father Brian Jordan is a Roman Catholic priest, a Franciscan formerly of St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York City, where everybody, just everybody, knows him. He does most…

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Are Humans As Violent As In The Good Old Days?

If we had records of massacres as we have meteorological records, don't you think we might discover their internal laws, after several centuries of observation? --- Joseph de Maistre. There…

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The Environmentalist Fallacy Causing Global Warming Divide To Grow

A headline lifted from an MS-"Bias free"-NBC story: "Americans' divide over global warming getting deeper" (linked on HotAir). Subtitle: "Despite onslaught of science, resistance to the idea seems to be…

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Number Of Ways To Go Nuts To Increase: DSM-V

Here are the official number of ways you can go nuts, according to the peer-reviewed Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM-I started in 1952 with just 601…

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How Do You Drive Every Day?

I have not owned a car since the summer of 1998, when I sold for a pittance a rattly Dodge Omni I had been driving for a decade. In New…

Cary Cotterman on What Are The Chances…George Wendt Dies On Same Day Cheers Ended 32 Years Before?May 27, 2025
What are the chances that on May 27th, the anniversary of my wife and I meeting, Briggs would write an…
Brian (bulaoren) on What Are The Chances…George Wendt Dies On Same Day Cheers Ended 32 Years Before?May 27, 2025
May 27th is also the birthday of Vincent Price. JEEPERS CREEPERS!
Brian (bulaoren) on What Are The Chances…George Wendt Dies On Same Day Cheers Ended 32 Years Before?May 27, 2025
... today is Christopher Lee's birthday. Yesterday was Peter Cushing's birthday. W.A.T.C.?
JRob on What Are The Chances…George Wendt Dies On Same Day Cheers Ended 32 Years Before?May 27, 2025
Please, please calculate this one. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after…
Richard Brimage on What Are The Chances…George Wendt Dies On Same Day Cheers Ended 32 Years Before?May 27, 2025
How would you take into account the years. I mean if he didn’t die on that day this year there…