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Episcopal Meltdown
A new prayer is being formulated by the Episcopal Church. An early copy was leaked. That copy found its way into my hands. I put it here for your judgement.…
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Despite What You Heard, The Death Penalty Is Legitimate. Feser and Bessette’s “By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment”
Because, very oddly, there has been a changing of the catechism from the constant and ancient teaching ("the pope is distracting the world with fresh meat for the spirit of…
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How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part IV New (Free) Software Logistic Regression
Previous post in the series (or click above on Class). Download the code: mcmc.pred.R, mcmc.pred.examples.R. If you downloaded before, download again. This is version 0.21! Only the example code changed…
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Sarah Jeong, The New York Times & The Problem Of Whites
I am glad the New York Times did not fire Sarah Jeong. Not only am I happy, I am thrilled. I'm hoping she is assigned the Maxine Waters beat. I'm…
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Worst Pope Ever?
Garrison Keillor performed a neat trick. He gently teased and admonished his enlightened NPR (pardon the redundancy) audience, which to a man or a woman identifying as a man, thought…
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Insanity & Doom Update XLVI
A special all-reader-contribution edition of Doom! Item WeWork will stop serving meat at company events in effort to reduce environmental impact (Thanks to Sheri for the link.) The co-working startup…
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Corporate Zampolit
Soviet military companies and regiments infamously had in addition to regular officers zampolit, or (by the older name) political commissars. The position was as "a supervisory officer responsible for the…
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Everything Is Already In The Simulation
On Drudge a while back was linked the article "Pandemic 'could wipe out 900 million people,' experts warn" in some tabloid or sensationalistic rag (New York Times?). A chilling simulation…