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A True Hat Story
So I'm in Detroit Metro in line, folks edging closer to the gate hoping they'll score an early board and have room for their three carry ons. It's supposed to…
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Obesity Is Now A “Disease”
No surprise that diseases are political. What are we marching "against" this week? Never mind. What you might not have known is that how the word is applied is decided…
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Gentlemen, Don’t Do It
Don't have "a little work done." The only time you should be under the knife is when the surgeon is cutting out the round you took Defending the Innocent. And…
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Sharks. Tornadoes. SHARKNADOES!
Looks like the Vatican picked the right week to announce the upcoming canonizations of Saints-to-be John Paul II and John XXIII. All their holiness and more will be required to…
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Same-Sex Marriage, The Happy Solution For All!
Lot of turmoil, bellyaching, frustration, unhappiness, sterile triumphalism, whining, especially whining, about so-called same-sex marriage. A nation torn asunder, with hints of greater asunderings (yes, asunderings) to come. But old…
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Significance Magazine Announces Its Pro-Abortion Position
Significance Magazine waded into the culture wars by publishing "Deciding abortions by the toss of a coin?" by somebody called Michael A. Lewis. Here (in case the article is pulled)…
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Objective Bayes Vs. Logical Probability (Vs. Frequentism)
Reader and colleague JH has rightly taken me to task (via email) for incorrectly calling, or rather misleadingly labeling, logical probability "objective Bayes." She pointed to this set of lecture…
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New Theme Ideas?
If you have any, let me know. I'm running an old version of Weaver now, and I dread updating it because it means sacrificing all the tweaks I made. But…