More Bad Music; Class Wrap-Up; Go USA
Way Behind Back Thanks to everybody who stuck through the lectures, such as they were, for the last two weeks. I wrote these "lessons" over about a twenty-minute period each…
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Yesterday, the joint classes went on a tour of the Seneca Lake wineries. At those wineries we tasted wines---many, many different wines. One particular winery started us off with a…
World Cup, Statistics, Movie Lines, Cracked, and Clubbing
USA 1, Small Island Nation 1 Fabio Capello, pictured left, shows us the tracks his tears took after Robert Green revealed his American sympathies by suspiciously letting a shot through---a…
New Term For “Brights” Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins
A New Name The "brights" are at it again. What is a "bright"? It is not, as is by now well known to contemporary thinkers, the opposite of a "dim",…
Pet Peeves
Car ads on the radio I listen to a lot of baseball, which means I'm forced to endure a lot of ads. The worst are for cars, where each has…
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Barack Obama, Dictator: Secret Transcript
Transcript Begins Obama Read that back to me. Axelrod OK: I have fantasized–don't get me wrong–but that what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just,…
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My Secret To Win At Gambling Finally Revealed
One of the difficulties that world-famous public personalities such as myself face is that people think we have the answer for every question. That isn't true. It's only mostly true.…
Socialist Math Textbook Exercises
This post was inspired by an exchange we had in the review of Thomas Sowell's new book. You know how bad math classes have become. What makes it worse is…