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I was wrong about wishcasting the election
I made a mistake when I wrote about wishcasting in the McCain-Obama presidential election. I'd like to thank Patrick Hadley for keeping up his criticisms which led to me to…
Posted inCulture
We’ll miss you, Paul Harvey
Those of us who love radio love the human voice. Few, if any, voices were as beautiful as Paul Harvey's. I can remember listening to him when I was a…
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RSS content feed still busted; comments ok
The RSS content feed still has an extra space in it somewhere. I have checked many, many files, used a plug-in that automatically cycles through files to remove heading and…
Posted inPhilosophy
Peer review
Here is how peer review roughly works. An author sends a paper to a journal. An editor nearly always sends the paper on to two or more referees. The referees…
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I suppose Apple—corporation—would be happy
Sigh. I wonder why these Enlightened souls bother with school. They have already told themselves that they know everything there is worth knowing. The only other thing worth noting---the video…
Posted inBook review Philosophy Statistics
What appeal to authority means and what it doesn’t
This article is meant to be the first is a small series of demonstrations of how not and how to argue for or against climate activism. The level of argumentation…
Posted inFun
Just upgraded. Anything unusual?
Joy noticed that my older version of Wordpress was once again hacked to insert a list of drug names into the theme header.php file. So, I upgraded. When I did,…
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Today’s groaner
How many bishops does it take to celebrate Earth Hour? Tutu. (....pause for laughter....) Those wrestling guys at the WWF have been sending me emails touting earth hour again. Spokesman…