What’s to stop a large bloc of voters from joining forces to create laws so that they get a free ride, that they, in effect, make everybody else pay their way? That’s […]
Podcast Radio Show – Episode #2: The Limits of Human Knowledge and The Singularity
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_30sep2009_0002.mp3[/podcast] On today’s show: Update 3 Oct: The show appears to be available on iTunes. Search Podcasts for “Briggs” under “Title.” If anybody has difficulties downloading, please let me know. Men’s Fashion […]
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Podcast Radio Show—Episode #1: The Mind of the Climate Activist
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/ep_23sep2009_0001.mp3[/podcast] Welcome to the first show! Update If you are want to download, but are unfamiliar how, click the Podcasts RSS feed on the left part of the webpage. You’ll see a […]
Guest Post: The Case of America’s Missing Rebellion
Today’s guest post is from William J Briggs, my number one son. Note that it’s J and not M: he’s named after my father. Last night NYC was host to an event […]
“Hand me that ice pack, stat! He has global warming sickness!“, Or, The ED and the Coming Heat Wave
Warning: I don’t write the headlines of stories that link here. First, I checked. Nobody uses “stat” in emergency rooms anymore. A chief told me that he couldn’t remember the last time […]
Poem Code Challenge Hint
In the last post, reader George suggested a challenge to see whether or not short poem codes would be easy to “break”; that is, decrypt without access to the original poem I […]
You were right, Ted Kennedy
One day in 1973, in his squeaky, pickled-vocal-chords baritone Ted Kennedy filled the Senate chamber with these words: “Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there […]
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