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Global warming causes prostitution!
Update Moved up to allow comments. Originally posted November 2009. The Beaujolais nouveau (just got in my case for this year) shot out my nose when I saw this, the…
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David Daley, Salon Executive Editor, Is A Racist
David Daley is a racist. A racist judges people based on their race. Racism is loathsome. It is vile. Daley, the exceedingly white executive editor of Salon magazine, judges people…
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The Philosophy of Data
Writes David Brooks (from whom I filched the title): [T]he rising philosophy of the day...is data-ism. We now have the ability to gather huge amounts of data. This ability seems…
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Books For Offer: Cleaning Out The Shelves
Update They are sold, en masse too! Update I have a tentative offer, which should conclude by this weekend. If not, I will repost. A move having been imposed upon…
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Statistics “Proves” Men And Women Are The Same
There are just as many women in prison as men. So too are there equal numbers of male and female ob/gyn patients: this is because the sexual aparatuses on both…
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Team Dorner And Race
Contrary to common wisdom, it is acceptable to discuss race and not harm one's career or social status. But it can only be done in two ways: (1) to list…
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DC Comics Fans Call For Boycott Over Orson Scott Card’s Same-Sex “Marriage” Views
"Batwoman has been a lesbian since 2006." I wonder what made her change her mind? Turns out that Alan Scott, a.k.a. Green Lantern, also turned gay in 2012. Maybe it…
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Pope Benedict To Resign
Word just came in that our scholar pope is resigning. Old age. First Holy Father to give up the reins since the early fifteenth century. A holy Cincinnatus, as it…