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Poor Heat
From our very own Ye Olde Statistician comes the tip, "As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most", a run-of-the-mill NPR weepie, but with a global…
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Eat Soy, Save The Planet: Al Gore Update
Eat Soy, Save The Planet. Save the planet from what and for whom we are never told. A climate with a slight increase in global mean temperature can't destroy the…
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Pipe Down — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
BREAKING NEWS FROM ALL MSM's: TRUMP LASHES OUT AGAINST EVERYONE! MEDIA ALLEGATIONS OF UNIVERSAL RACISM MUST BE TRUE, BECAUSE THE MEDIA HAVE SAID IT. ERGO, TRUMP IS THE UNIVERSAL RACIST.…
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The Week In Doom — Out-Of-Control Matriarchy Edition
Item I have it on good report a high school has eliminated its year-end speech by the Valedictorian and substituted one by the "most popular student". (I am not naming…
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The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ
That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody…
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More Asinine Global Warming Research — Introducing ‘Climate Liar’
This is a follow-up to yesterday's post. None of these "studies" merits a full-scale analysis, but they are silly enough to warrant a moment or two of your attention. Item…
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Another Reason To Cheer For Global Warming: More Male Births!
Men, we must all admit, are the better sex. It something needs killing, you call a man. We're taller and our looks improve whilst sporting a moustache. And talk about…
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Don’t Panic, But Intelligent Design Is Trivially True (Breathe, Breathe…)
This post, a follow-up to yesterday's, originally ran 4 August 2016. What I mean by intelligent design (which is perhaps not what you mean by it) is that All There…