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Discrimination Is Everywhere!
A seventy-year-old man auditions to play the lead in Model Detective, a film about a Victoria's Secret swimsuit model who solves beach crime, and he is turned down because he…
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The Miracles-Don’t-Exist-So-Miracles-Don’t-Exist Argument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=69&v=0d4FHHf00pY Say something nice: the Miracles-Don't-Exist-So-Miracles-Don't-Exist argument is conditionally true. If miracles are impossible, miracles, it follows logically, don't happen. No escaping the iron cladedness of that (you heard me:…
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Status Of Christianity (And Pizza Parlours)
On this day of ultimate sacrifice it's well to ponder the state of our ancient religion. We'll come to no firm conclusions---not in 750 words---but we have to start somewhere.…
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This Week In Doom (Indiana’s RFRA Too!)
Theme We've tried various ways of doing this over the years, but none successfully. So I'm going to steal an idea from Nick Steves and give the weekend collection of…
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Science Officially Runs Out Of Things To Study
The headline in the peer-reviewed Physiology & Behavior paper by Soojin Park and Weon-Sun Shin says it all: "Differences in eating behaviors and masticatory performances by gender and obesity status".…
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You’re A LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM-aphobe!
I admit it. I am afraid of the sort of person who boasts of being a card-carrying LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM member. I would not want to be in a room alone with…
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Journalist Bias For Sale Vs. Academic Freedom: More On The Soon Pseudo-Controversy
Two parts to this. An email exchange with a reporter, and the column he eventually wrote. Regular readers know I've been documenting these so other can people can see just…
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How’d We Do On Our 2014 Predictions?
This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. Time to tally. As has become our tradition, each New Year's Eve we see…