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Summary Against Modern Thought: That God Is Love, And What That Means

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. This is…

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This Week In Doom: Justice Kennedy Says Bureaucrats Should Act Like Nazis?

Kennedy to Faithful: Drop Dead The appalling Anthony Kennedy, supreme justice, invoked Hitler to insist that Christians and Muslims who want to stay faithful should resign from government. Yes. Speaking…

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The Catholic Church: Midwife Of Science. Guest Post by Bob Kurland

"The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism. " Pierre Duhem, The Aim and Structure…

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Stream: Bishops Demand World-Wide Decarbonization.

Today's post is at The Stream: "Bishops Demand World-Wide Decarbonization". Generally, the less physics a man knows the more he cares about global-warming-of-doom. The reason is simple. In-depth knowledge of…

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Data Do Not Have Means: Or, The Deadly Sin of Reification Strikes Again!

No, data do not have means. Nor do they have variances, autocorrelations, partial or otherwise, nor moments; nor do they have any other statistical characteristic you care to name. Data…

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The Crisis Of Conservative Catholicism: Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture at First Things

Ross Douthat gave the 28th Erasmus Lecture at the Union League Club (they have a complete set of books on the "Rebellion" in their library) in Manhattan. Your roving reporter…

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Insurance Companies Raising Prices Because Of Exaggerated Global Warming Threat by Insurance Insider ‘Barton Keyes’

'Barton Keyes' is a pseudonym (which I picked) as the insurance industry insider who penned this article needs to remain anonymous. This article, which tells of how insurance companies will…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Passions of the Appetite & God

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We've already…

Htos1av on Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; StationarityMarch 1, 2026
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Tracy Platt on The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde BombshellFebruary 26, 2026
What I miss even more than the ticket is a day skiing at Brighton for $1.10. Carumba! O.K, i dont…
hudbwu on The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde BombshellFebruary 25, 2026
P.S. And don't for a moment think we've escaped from the crutches of oblivion that ate all those books! A…
hudbwu on The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde BombshellFebruary 25, 2026
Here's a video that talks about all the books you will never, ever read. Watch and weep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcb2oLSb7Cs
Johnno on Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of BlueskyFebruary 24, 2026
Not only must we Follow THE SCIENCE (tm), but we must LIKE and hit the Notification Bell to be updated…