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Witchcraft Is Spellbinding To Our Elites
Many will argue it was inevitable that women's "liberation" would give rise to witchcraft. Women have a greater need than men for the emotional, especially in matters of love and…
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The Week In Doom — You WILL Bake The Cake Edition
Item Again: Masterpiece Cakeshop Sued For Third Time For Refusing To Make A Cake That Conflicted With Owner's Religious Beliefs Transgender woman Autumn Scardina filed a second lawsuit against Phillips…
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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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It’s White Male Privilege Week!
It's White Privilege Week! What are you doing to celebrate? Twitter started off a day early by forcing the tag #MyWhitePrivilege to trend. As the multitude of links in this…
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This Week In Doom — Celebrity Meat Edition
Item Abortion until birth in New York State. In a democracy, what is voted yes on becomes both true and moral. Maranatha. Item Everyone Stop Everything. What Is This? A…
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How Many Geniuses Are There?
This post originally appeared 15 September 2008. Here is a question I often give on exams: What is the probability that the next child to be born will be a…
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A Brief Note On Democracy, Authority & Power Inspired by Patrick O’Brian: Houellebecq Trump-Is-Good Update
The scene is this: Dr Stephen Maturin, physician and surgeon of England's Surprise sits dining with his messmates in the ward room, near the end of the Napoleonic wars. The…
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What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming
One reason people doubt global-warming-of-doom is because of lousy philosophers like N. Ángel Pinillos (note the New York Times-sophisticated inclusion of the accent). He wrote a piece entitled (in some…