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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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Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism
The tile of today's post is the same as the new book by the National Association of Scholar's Rachelle Peterson and Peter Wood, released yesterday and which can be downloaded…
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The I-Must-Be-Right-Because-I-Can’t-Think-Of-Another-Reason Fallacy
The I-Must-Be-Right-Because-I-Can't-Think-Of-Another-Reason---or IMBRBICTOAR, pronounced, in Latin, im-bri-bictor---has always been with us, but its use has latterly accelerated because of our culture's fascination with self-esteem. Schools and universities in the West…
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I Made “Climate Denial MVP”!
Gollum (who's he? see this post on the political witch hunt of scientists) wrote yesterday to announce that a group of us made the "Climate Denial MVP" List. I admit…
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What Does Losing Tax Exempt Status Of Churches Mean? Or, The SSM Takedown. Updates
We've been busy with all things sustainability, so it's only now we can get to the Supreme Court's oral arguments over whether to abandon marriage and give over to the…
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Democracy And The Global Warming Consensus—And That New Arizona Survey
Guy named Jonathan Overpeck who makes a living ensuring people are nervous about global warming conducted a survey of Arizona residents and discovered three-fourths of them are nervous about global…
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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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Vatican To Have One-Day “Climate Change” Summit. Why Wasn’t I Invited?
Here's the word from the America: The National Catholic Review: The Vatican is set to host a major conference on climate change this month that will feature leading researchers on…
