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Insanity & Doom Update XVII
Item Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them. If you buy this view of responsibility, you might eventually admit that having many children is…
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Why Most Members Of The Media Are Leftists — Guest Post by Kevin Groenhagen
Both Barack and Michelle Obama made speeches in which they compared the positive "what is" with the normative "what should be." "There must be no doubt that the United States…
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Why People Seek Out Alt-Media — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
Imagine that you are a passive "consumer" of news, to use the preferred industry lingo. The use of "consume" is telling, admitting news itself has a shelf-life of a bag…
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Real Versus Fake Fake News: Update
Stream: Real Versus Fake Fake News On the last day of bad old year, Lake Superior State University released its 43rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English…
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How’d We Do On Our 2017 Predictions?
How'd we do? Not so hot. We missed big events; but then, 2017 was a screwy year with our continued slide into Insanity & Doom accelerating. As Yogi Berra may…
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Register Your Predictions For 2018
As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year later this week.…
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Underestimating Trump Is His Biggest Advantage
Stream: Underestimating Trump Is His Biggest Advantage Recently, Vox gleefully repeated the rumor based on innuendo (it's no coincidence this is Italian for suppository), that National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster…
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Top 10 Blog & Stream Posts of 2017
Here they are! The most desperately awaited Top 10 Posts at WMBriggs.com of 2017! This is followed by the even-more-exciting Top 10 Stream Articles. These are counted by post statistics,…