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The Love Of Money Leads To Socialism
Most, with good reason, misremember the quotation. In entirety: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the…
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The Etiquette Of Hats (For Men)
The giants, and also the midgets, of fashion are chirruping that "Hats are backs!" These fine people, who are ever discovering new ways of cladding themselves in black, are wrong.…
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What The Sale of Barnes and Nobel Means To Reading
Not too long ago, on the outdoor-shopping-mall-like 86th street in New York City---chain stores everywhere---Barnes and Noble opened a new store. Enormous, wide aisled (a rarity for stores in the…
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California Judge Reverses Prop 8: A Right To Marriage?
A judge in California has, as we have all heard, struck down the publicly created law which bans two-person, same-sex marriage. This was no surprise, as most expected that this…
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Everybody Has A Mental Disease: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5
I am so far Up North that I heard a radio interview with Uncle Ted Nugnet on the best kinds of arrowheads to bring down feral pigs. Internet still only…
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Professor Fired For Offending Friend Of Student (Then Rehired)
Whatever you do, don't diss John Stuart Mill or Jeremy Bentham at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. You might just "offend" the friend of a student, and will thus…
Four Chords Is All You Need: The Limited Nature of Pop Music
Coming tomorrow: the infamous two-envelope problem, solved! More mathematical constructivism. But today, as it's Sunday, something light and airy...and non taxing. A "comedy rock" group which bills itself as the…
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‘The Most Dangerous Philosopher in the West’
Extremely busy day, today. I have time for only the merest sketch of a post. The title is not mine, but a label given to Slavoj Zizek, the rock-star communist…