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How’d We Do On Our 2018 Predictions?
How'd we do? Let me put it this way: the Magic 8 Ball is in no danger of losing its position as top soothsayer. We were game, but overall there…
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The Probability Of Your Existence
A version of this column originally ran 7 July 2014. To the nearest order of magnitude, there have existed, including us, about 100 billion human beings. This proves what was…
Posted inPhilosophy
Moral Relativism Is Bogus — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Oftentimes moral relativism is defined in more abstract terms and described as the belief that values or principles are "subjective" or "relative" to individuals or cultures. What works for one…
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Insanity & Doom Update LXV
Item The Future of American Sexuality and Family: Five Key Trends How many Americans have entered into civil same-sex marriages? It's hard to say, since same-sex households themselves have never…
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Insanity & Doom Update LXIII — Special Midweek Doom
We really could do one of these daily. Item Our Revolution's Logic Don't know where else to put this. Read it. It shows the doom awaiting us should the Party…
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Insanity & Doom Update LVIII — Special Midweek Doom
There is more Doom that we can shake a holy-water-doused crucifix at. Maybe we should have both Saturdays and Wednesdays Doom devoted. Item How three scholars gulled academic journals to…
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Chaos & Outrage In The Church — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Chaos and outrage have again engulfed the Church. We must talk about this incredibly ugly and painful boil on the Body of Christ. To lance a boil, you must insert…
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Insanity & Doom Update XLVIII
Item Decline in the Fall (or Late Summer, Anyway): by Fred Gibbon This is Fred Reed at his curmudgeonly best. Item The Next Woman To Try Playing In A PGA…
