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What Happened to the News?—Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
My father was a wire editor of our local paper. Even though the paper was "local" and covered a few counties, there was much more news than who married, who…
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How’d Our 2012 Predictions Fare?
We didn't have a such a bad year making picks---here's the list. Make predictions for 2013 here. Yours truly picked Mitt Romney as president. A wishcast not a forecast! A…
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Predictions 2013—Register Yours Today!
Time for our annual guessing game about what's to come for 2013. The predictions we made for 2012 will be posted and analyzed tomorrow. We have one week to enter…
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Were Medications Responsible For The Connecticut Lanza Murders?
Some are speculating that the evil, and thank God dead, Adam Lanza was on SSRIs, which are medications designed to mess with your mind (in the pleasantest of ways), and…
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Government Finds Clever New Way To Spend Your Money: NIH’s RePAIR
Heard of the Office of Research Integrity? It's one branch of the hydra-headed Department of Health and Human Services. HHS is the infamous agency that under Obamacare would mandate Muslim…
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Did General Petraeus Stray Because Of His Wife’s Hair? Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
First of all, let me register my disappointment with General Petraeus. He is the last in a cavalcade of public figures (Democrat and Republican) who has fallen short when it…
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A House Is A Woman’s Castle—Guest Post By The Blonde Bombshell
A Norwegian study reports that couples who make a concerted effort to divide the housework are more likely to divorce than couples where most of the chores fall to the…
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Realism vs. Anti-Realism I: Introduction — Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should…