A Citizen’s Top Style Choices
In a hurry this morning. The Wall Street Journal ran a long interview with tailor Ethan Newton who, we learn, is moving to Hong Kong. Mazel Tov to him. After…
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Hayek Versus Keynes
The video "Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two" (via Econstories.tv) allows us to discern one reason why reporters side with the forces of large government. Hayek's corner…
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Wishcasting The End Of The World: Update
Wishcasting is when a forecast or prediction is shaded in the direction the forecaster or predictor wants the event to happen. For example, if you forecast this weekend's weather, you…
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Are You Good At Picking Football Games? Edgehogs
I haven't met a die-hard sports fan yet who hasn't claimed to be able to pick games better than everybody else. Just as I haven't met a gambler who hasn't…
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What Is Science? Part I
Science says this, science says that. There is no more loquacious entity these days than science. What is it? Climatologists talk of the science. Physicists compliment by saying a fellow…
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Global Warming Increases Disastrous Music: A Scientific Paper
A scientific paper in a grand tradition (notice the scientific formatting and use of p-values): the custom is to read only the Abstract; only the brave and bored should venture…
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The Implications Of Yesterday’s Global Warming Post
There was nothing in the world wrong with my scientific paper "Global Warming Increases Disastrous Music: A Scientific Paper." Nothing, that is, that isn't wrong with any paper which seeks,…
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Muppets Offer Human Sacrifice!
Finally! I offer tangible proof that listening to the Beatles can drive one to evil. Prolonged, repetitious exposure to their music causes madness leading, in rare cases, to human sacrifice!…
