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About Half Will Not Pay Federal Income Tax: Plus, A Solution To This Unfairness

What's to stop a large bloc of voters from joining forces to create laws so that they get a free ride, that they, in effect, make everybody else pay their…

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Guest Post: The Case of America’s Missing Rebellion

Today's guest post is from William J Briggs, my number one son. Note that it's J and not M: he's named after my father. Last night NYC was host to…

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DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS: I of III

In celebration of my having work, I present something that requires no thinking (on my part). Part II Part III PDF DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS Part I of III Kick...two,…

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CBC’s How to Think Aboot Science series

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has a great web site with a series (so far on-going) How to Think Aboot Science. I recommend the site as a great resource for interviews…

Culture

Some pieces you should see

Wired article on copulas Reader Scott Bury forwarded this article from Wired on the probability function that many used to quantify the risk of certain financial instruments. You can think…

Philosophy

You have no choice but to read this

Your decisions are not your own Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and…

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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…

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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…

Neil Jordan on Class 79: Time Series ExampleFebruary 20, 2026
Does the passage of time cause ice, or does ice cause the passage of time? Mystical statistical court of appeals…
Johnno on The Importance Of Not Making DecisionsFebruary 19, 2026
But Briggs... we pay people to make decisions on our behalf... Government exists, and it MUST do SOMETHING!!! What are…
Johnno on AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest PanicFebruary 19, 2026
BRIGGS YOU FOOL OF ARTIFICIALITY! Aye Eye exists for one reason and ONE REASON ONLY! To INCREASE Shareholder Value! If…
JH on The Importance Of Not Making DecisionsFebruary 19, 2026
Maybe you mean “knowledge” instead of “belief.” When my daughter was in ninth grade, I asked her about evidence for…
gareth on AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest PanicFebruary 19, 2026
Yes "AI" is just computer models. Better - in the sense of more competent in tasks than before. This does…