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Life Isn’t Fair: Part III
We are at the position where somebody thinks a rule, law, or stricture, or the lack of the same, is fair or unfair. The justification for this belief must (eventually)…
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The Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage, Part I
In a further effort to increase my leisure time (by reducing my chance of employment), presented here for your edification an argument against same-sex "marriage" in the form of an…
Posted inFun Philosophy
Richard Dawkins Is A Dangerous Man: Update
I'll tell you how. He makes people feel smarter than they are. And in our world of self-esteem substituting for accomplishment and ability, his villainous power is especially poisonous. For…
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Climategate 3.0—Update: Hacker A Coder?
Whoever it was that snatched the cache of emails from prominent climatologists and created Climategate 1.0, then 2.0 has come forward, in a sort of way, to begin Climategate 3.0.…
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Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions
Update This is back in the news. This (lightly edited) post originally appeared 28 February 2012. Academic philosophers Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva---shockingly working in Australia1, a land where commonsense…
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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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Selective Abortion To Create Master Race: Progressive Academic Pushes For Moral Enhancement
Today's discovery is yet another academic with the map to Utopia glistening in his mind's eye. David DeGrazia of George Washington University, author of the peer-reviewed paper "Moral enhancement, freedom,…
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Adjusted Mass Public Shootings per Decade Uncorrelated With Gun Ownership
Here are the Mass Public Shootings per Decade from the 1900s through 2012, adjusted for population. The rate is mass-shootings per million per decade, using the average population of the…