Artificial Intelligence? A comment.
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I asked my friend @barbarikon on twitter about the possibility of
artificial intelligence.. he wrote this tweet in response and I am posting
it here becaus...
The Education Racket
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It’s not quite the “Chart of the Century,” which captures the perverse
impact of government intervention, but Andrew Coulson’s chart on government
schools ...
The Church Desk
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A few weeks ago I inaugurated my work desk at the church, but there were
still a couple of things missing, namely a full-sized keyboard and monitor.
The Ma...
A paper beyond belief
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I’ve dissected many crazy papers over the years—just to show what passes
for “scholarship” in some of the humanities. Yes, of course there’s good
scholarsh...
My Weekly Reading and Viewing for March 16, 2025
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Government Goons Destroy Tree House
by Autumn Billings, *Reason*, March 12, 2025.
Excerpt:
Bringing the tree house into compliance was no simple task...
MEASLES BULLSHIT NARRATIVE
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Watch How the Measles Narrative Has Done a COMPLETE 180!
pic.twitter.com/NXTvwDWYq2 — Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) March 15, 2025
Sunday assorted links
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1. A hyper-curiosity theory of ADHD. 2. The religious are more skeptical
about the moral character of scientists. 3. “Magpies and Crows Are Using
“Anti-B...
Cranks, crackpots and conspiracy theorists
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The terms “crank” and “crackpot” are often used interchangeably to describe
someone who holds eccentric or unorthodox views, especially in science or
other...
New location and new horizons
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*The Travelling Companions*, 1862, Augustus Egg (1816-1863)
I'm now blogging at *Peter Frost's Newsletter.* Please drop by and offer
your comments:
...
Sydney leads house price upswing
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CoreLogic’s preliminary auction results reported a clearance rate of 71.4%
for Sydney. This was the sixth consecutive week that the preliminary
clearance...
AI Model History is Being Lost
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Published on March 16, 2025 12:38 PM GMT
I fear that we may lose – and are already losing – the modern history of
AI, particularly with regard to the abili...
The Puzzle of the Japanese-American Draft in 1944
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In January 1944, the Secretary of War announced that Japanese-American men
would be subject to the draft. Prior to that, they were eligible only to
volunte...
The Making of María Corina Machado
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She moderated her tone in the lead-up to July 28, but Machado is now
engaging with the MAGA camp. How did she get here after 25 years?
Because We’re Not At War
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There is a maxim, Inter arma enim silent leges, meaning “In times of war,
the law falls silent.” Its embodiment is in the last remaining vestige of
the dre...
The Russian Reach: Playing Catch Up Part 2
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This is part 2 of my attempt at catching up to current events in our
Russian Reach series. Again, I’m going to let the videos do the speaking
for themsel...
Links #767
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I wanted them to die. – Marco Evaristti As I so often do for
non-superstar musicians, I’m sending Roy Ayers off with his best-known
performance. The lin...
Sunday morning music
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Yesterday, March 15th, was the fifteenth anniversary of my marriage to my
dear lady wife.
I never expected to marry, and she had given up much thought...
Linder: Danger Came Smiling @ the Hayward Gallery
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Rewiring ideas of glamour and gender roles, Linder’s artworks engage in
vibrant and powerful take-downs of male-oriented consumer culture. (The
official vi...
Why tit-for-tat tariffs may not work against Trump
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Last week, my ECONS101 class covered game theory. At the end of the final
lecture, after we had been covering repeated games and tit-for-tat
strategies, ...
Brigittology for Dummies, by Laurent Guyénot
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I don’t mind being called a conspiracy theorist. The killing of JFK was a
conspiracy, and 9/11 was a conspiracy, and I wrote theories on both, so I’m
a con...
Covid.
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Yep. Somehow I got covid. Don’t know how. I don’t think I even came into
contact with anyone even long enough to see nostril hairs but yes, covid’s
been ni...
Not far from how it started in Donetsk
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I missed Kristi Noem’s stunt last week.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently toured a library that
straddled the United States-Canada border,...
Idylls on the Ides
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Today is the Ides of March by the old Roman reckoning. It is, of course,
most famous as the day of the year when Julius Caesar was assassinated, but
long b...
Review: Michelle Tea’s “Modern Magic”
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[image: Review: Michelle Tea’s “Modern Magic”]
We not only learn about Michelle’s life, but also how those experiences
shaped her practice, how her practic...
McCarthyism at Yale, Then and Now
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At the height of the Second Red Scare, Yale University covered itself in
glory when Yale president Charles Seymour declared, “There will be no
witch-hunts ...
Where the ducks are?
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Since the 2024 election, a lot of people have said that the way for the
Democrats to win is to move towards the center. A few days ago, Thomas
Edsall h...
Those Dying Swans
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“The Dying Swan” is not my favorite dance – not by a longshot. It’s a
schmaltzy little number that was choreographed by Fokine a hundred and
twenty years...
Those Dying Swans
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“The Dying Swan” is not my favorite dance – not by a longshot. It’s a
schmaltzy little number that was choreographed by Fokine a hundred and
twenty years...
Desain Meeting Room yang Mendorong Kerjasama Tim
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Dalam dunia kerja yang semakin dinamis, ruang rapat atau meeting room
memegang peranan penting dalam mendukung kolaborasi dan kerjasama tim.
Ruang ini bu...
Quotations
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'The road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.'
St Athanasius said this and it's still topical.
'If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If yo...
Penn’s Case Against Amy Wax Is a Disgrace
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by City Journal on
February 26, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is
cross-posted...
Dude, Where’s My Country?
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W.J. Astore Peace Through Strength! As a retired U.S. military officer, I’m
appalled at the notion of “peace through strength.” You may as well say
“war is...
Energy death by suicide
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Back in the 1850s Lord Kelvin took a look at the Second Law of
Thermodynamics and decided that the universe was heading for energy death
(otherwise known a...
The Future Of Literature
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I wrote this post back in 2013, one of the first posts I wrote for the Mad
Genius Club, and in light of the recent brouhaha in the lit world playing
out on...
Confessions of a Sinner
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There can be little doubt that of the nine books set down to describe
Augustine’s life, Book VIII is everyone’s favorite. It is the centerpiece
of the stor...
What Things Really Feel?
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We humans have brains that guide our behavior, inserting complex
“signal-processing” between input from our eyes, ears, etc., and output to
control our han...
Radio Derb March 14 2025
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This Week’s Show Contents 01m04s Ireland’s new troubles 16m39s Something to
dress up for 27m51s Free Puerto Rico! 31m05s Vance socks it to them 32m13s
Too ...
Trial of Mann v. Steyn: Post-Trial Motions Edition
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* Way back in the ancient year of 2012 — before this blog had even been
started — Penn State climate “scientist” Michael Mann brought a lawsuit for
defamat...
Why Do We Kiss?
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Why do we kiss? Is there an evolutionary advantage to it? This article
tries to answer that question.
A kiss has been a signal of special affection across ...
China: Invasion Barges, or Just Argy Bargy?
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There have been stories regarding construction of Chinese landing barges
presumably for use in an invasion of Taiwan circulating for some time now.
There a...
King David’s Hostage Negotiations
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At the end of this week, Jews around the world will celebrate the holiday
of Purim. The annual commemoration of the divine salvation from
extermination ...
AI Can’t Do Science…And Neither Can Other Humans
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Seen on Twitter: I don’t know the context here, so I can’t speak to what
Prof. Cronin meant. But it got me thinking. Suppose you, like Prof. Cronin,
were t...
A Dilemma for Nonlocal Theories of Consciousness
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Call a theory of consciousness *nonlocal* if two entities that are
molecule-for-molecule perfectly similar in their physical structure could
nonetheless di...
A Farewelll
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Massive Archive I have been writing this column, off and on, mostly on,
for–dear God, can it be nearly thirty years? Yet nothing lasts forever,
neither col...
A Farewelll
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Massive Archive I have been writing this column, off and on, mostly on,
for–dear God, can it be nearly thirty years? Yet nothing lasts forever,
neither col...
Processing: A Philosophy Mixtape
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It’s only March, but we may already have a winner for the coolest
philosophy of the year: a new project “combining mixtape aesthetics with
philosophical ...
How Does Social Media Pose a Threat to Autonomy?
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Undergraduate Finalist paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize
in Practical Ethics. By Rahul Lakhanpaul, University of Edinburgh.
The post H...
What I mean by "post-liberal" according to Grok
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I asked Grok "What does Russell Blackford mean when he claims that Western
society has become post-liberal?"
This was its reply - it's a scarily good sum...
Weekend Knowledge Dump- March 14, 2025
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Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out
some of these links this weekend. The Unlived Life I’m finding social
media so ...
Two Recent Anomalies in U.S. Trade
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[image: Gold ingots by Stevebidmead on Pixabay -
https://pixabay.com/photos/gold-ingots-treasure-bullion-513062/]
There have been some remarkable anomalie...
STATEMENT ON THE DOUGLAS MURRAY DEFAMATION CASE
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In the wake of the Douglas Murray defamation case against the Observer this
week, which focused on a column I had written last August, there have been
a la...
What Almost No One Knows About
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The Importance of Auto Glass Repair and Replacement in McKinney As a car
owner, you understand the importance of maintaining your vehicle’s overall
conditi...
Team Player
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When it comes to aspects of the current gender-swapping madness towards
which I am most adamantly opposed, the spectacle of teen and twentyish born
males p...
Roaring 20s or Great Depression 2.0?
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*The binary ahead is the result of a simple law of Nature: adapt or die. *
*Will we revel in a New Roaring 20s of exhilarating expansion, or will we
suffe...
In memoriam, Paleozoic
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256 – 243 million years ago Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote his poem “In
Memoriam AHH,” in response to the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam.
Several ca...
Think
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Think before you ink. 20 tips for beautiful tattoos you’ll never regret –
from the professionals. I don’t need to. I recall my grandfather showing
[...]
You Can’t Burn Down Neapolis
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Years ago, I went on a long road trip with a Palestinian friend, first to
Nablus, then to Nazareth, and eventually to Haifa. Nablus wasn’t officially
part ...
Price Theory and Applications — Errata
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The 10th edition of Price Theory and Applications has been out for several
months now, and so far I’m aware of just one cluster of errors. [Of course
zero ...
Manifest destiny, part 2: Canada
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Canada is getting a new prime minister just as its southern neighbor is
threatening its independence. So far it's doing wonders for his party's
fortunes.
General Preparedness Discussion–9MAR2025
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It’s been said that most American households only have enough food on hand
for 2-3 days worth of meals. We tend to see this as factual, because of the
run ...
The Dirt of Years
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Raya and Karim moved back into the family home. Her parents rented two
gloomy rooms on the first floor of a house and shared a kitchen and a
bathroom with...
Life, Reproduction, and the Paradox of Evolution
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My article “Life, Reproduction, and the Paradox of Evolution” appears in a
special issue of the journal *BioCosmos* devoted to exploring the nature of
li...
The Lucky Tree
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Your version of 2025 hasn’t been mine but I’m sure it’s been just as
exciting. During this time of upheaval, I hope you’ve done as well as me.
Actually, I ...
Slavery, Abolition, and Islam:
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Bashir signals his outlook in the first paragraph: "Let us for a moment
imagine a world in which Muslim seminaries are training scholars to
actively challe...
Is there or isn’t there an “obstetrical dilemma”?
-
Someone following the obstetrical dilemma (OD) debate and discussion may be
wondering, “Well, is there or isn’t there?”
I wrote two papers saying there i...
ALL THE TIME…
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Unity it a pipe dream. Get it out of your head. And stop fantasizing
about that almost perfect charisma machine, who will come and bring us all
together ...
Republicans Want to Change the Culture. Can They?
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This essay was first published by The Dispatch on March 10, 2025. Americans
are about to undergo a dramatic social experiment. For generations, our
values ...
On Columbia in the crosshairs
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The world is complicated, and the following things can all be true: (1)
Trump and his minions would love to destroy American academia, to show
their power,...
On Columbia in the crosshairs
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The world is complicated, and the following things can all be true: (1)
Trump and his minions would love to destroy American academia, to show
their power,...
The ABC (ombudsman) stopped talking to me
-
There was an ostensible “news” article on the ABC news site about Trump’s
executive order (EO) titled “DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM
AND R...
Clash of the Climateers
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It’s the slugfest of the century — Australia’s top climate alarmist Dr
Joelle Gergis (above) duking it out with Anna-Maria Arabia, CEO of the
Australian Ac...
Review: Goyhood
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[image: Goyhood]Goyhood by Reuven Fenton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A really interesting read. Two estranged twin brothers reconnect with each
other -- and wi...
Russia's Private Military Companies
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Introduction
There is no doubt that the Russian Federation should be considered a
near-peer competitor of the United States – they have a nuclear arsenal ...
Student visa applications withdrawn
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The Department of Home Affairs does not routinely report statistics on
withdrawn student visa applications. At my request, they supplied me with
student vi...
Beatrice Twice Queen of Hungary
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Time to meet one of the coolest Renaissance queens no one has heard of:
Beatrice of Naples TWICE Queen of Hungary. She’s one of the awesome people
who didn...
Against vibes-based economic prognosticating
-
Here is how it goes. Let’s say it starts with the Government doing
something bad, like raise a tax by £20bn., to fund a bunch of stuff. People
don’t like t...
Rape Gangs and the Shadow of Multiculturalism
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Why has the issue of sadistic mass rape on British soil reared its ugly
head once again—this time on the international front? There are many
reasons, but o...
Algeria
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The Algerians were mostly pirates at first. They preyed on European
commerce and enslaved tens of thousands of Europeans. They ransomed what
they could and...
That Guy Shouldn’t Be Deciding Stuff
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For many years I have noticed that people lose their ability to discuss
issues with clarity and focus as their quality of life improves. When
you’re hungry...
The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility
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*THERE ARE DECADES WHEN* possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The
terrain has been surveyed, boundaries have been laid, and rules have been
establ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, essayist
-
One of the reasons I keep a blog is as a kind of commonplace book, to keep
a record of things that I liked reading and found thought-provoking. I
recently ...
Kindergarten Intifada: Reading It Like A Realist
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Original publication: 01/02/25 In late October, The Free Press published
Abigail Shrier’s1 article Kindergarten Intifada. Shrier’s charge that
“[t]here is ...
The Fascinating Power Of Human Wormholes
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One of the most mind-blowing experiences of my life happened on a porch in
East Austin. I had brought George Raveling, then 80, to visit with Richard
Overt...
ELON MUSK'S MANAGEMENT STYLE
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Elon Musk is the world's most controversial business manager, following the
example of Steve Jobs. Both their lives are detailed in biographies by
Walter...
Three Observations
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Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
benefits all of humanity.
Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, ...
Why Hosting the Super Bowl Might Not Be Worth It
-
The Super Bowl isn’t just the biggest day in US sports: it’s the
most-watched annual event in American television, with around 100 million
Americans tuning...
G25 available again
-
To get your Global25 coords, please use the app HERE. The whole process
usually takes a couple of days. Feel free to spread the word. Note that the
convers...
Camel and buffalo
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Plaque with Bactrian Camel, North China, 2nd–1st century B.C., North China,
Gilt bronze...
E what about the buffalo head? Anyone? Let's try animal calend...
Deepseek gets F+ in Econ
-
LLMs have trouble with this pretty-basic economics question:
Prompt: “*Is this factually accurate?*
*Positively correlated price-quantity pairs reveal th...
The Revitalization of the Cherokee Language
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The Cherokee language is a key part of the rich and diverse history of the
Cherokee people. This unique language, with its syllabary alphabet created
by ...
Hicks on Temporary Equilibrium
-
J. R. Hicks, who introduced the concept of intertemporal equilibrium to
English-speaking economists in Value and Capital, was an admirer of Carl
Menger, on...
The Humanoids by Jack Willamson
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I had my hopes up for this one. After all, “With Folded Hands” is a bona
fide super-classic short story. Yeah, sure. Isaac Asimov was onto something
when h...
Joy!
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Genuine, heartfelt joy, REAL joy, that is. Look close, Kumala, so’s you’ll
always know it when you see it from now on. ‘This Is What Victory Feels
Like!’ M...
My 2024
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The year that has just ended was personally very difficult for me. First,
in April my wife developed a very serious medical condition—it was really
touch-a...
To be young, perchance to dream
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*He got to the river quay, or more exactly to the sidewalk on the other
side of the paved road running along the river, in the late morning. Too
many ...
Merry Christmas
-
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping
watch over their flock by night.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them...
‘An order in respect of Freemasons and Jews’
-
The Holocaust, the reason Freemasonry became a ‘secret’ order – World War 2
(1939-1945). By Peter Albert Dickens Incorrectly understood by many is the
idea...
Books 2024
-
You might also be interested in my booklists from
from 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Undersea
Victory In the Shadow of Man ...
Latest from Germany
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As Tam has stated numerous times, Europe has the ability to go from
"friendly to jackboots" in about .5 seconds. Germany might be close to that
cusp again ...
Institutional Economics on Bluesky
-
I have a Bluesky account you may wish to follow. Also a reminder to
subscribe to my Substack newsletter if you have not already done so. The
back-end of th...
Quick note
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Just a quick reminder to all you MilSF authors out there: Reticle: A
Crosshair or aiming device. Reticule: A small purse. I swear, Microsoft
Word must have...
Ribbonfarm is Retiring
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After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on
(KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The
ribbonfarm....
Podcast Review of “Avoidant”
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I’ve been trying out AI assistance in marketing. This is an excellent
example of what you can do, and it’s amazingly good at bringing out the
value of th...
#276 – Qing 18: Kangxi Gets Personal
-
The Kangxi Emperor of Great Qing squares off again Galdan Khan of the
Dzungar Khanate in the sociopolitical-religio-military showdown of the late
17th cent...
(WATCH) NATO
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The US is one of 32 nations belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization or NATO. The alliance is 75 years old this year. Because of
the Russia-Uk...
China has much to teach us. John Roberts does not.
-
So, I don’t really write here any more. I write at drafts.interfluidity.com
instead. Please follow that feed or subscribe by e-mail. I do still offer
perio...
A long strange trip
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For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack:
scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The
blog bega...
Dear Friends
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Dear Friends: Ten years after I started this blog, circumstances are making
it impossible for me to continue with it. So I am going to suspend it, at
lea...
Clock
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Guest post by Sander O’Neil https://sanderoneilclock.tiiny.site/ This is a
follow up to this post
https://mathbabe.org/2015/03/12/earths-aphelion-and-perih...
Sanity Fair
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*"Antifascist" demonstration Portland, Oregon. August 17, 2019. *
The two sides squared off across a field, defined by police cordons at each
end, like dis...
The Deep-State Strikes Back
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Biden is out. Kamala is in. Democracy and laws be damned. Biden through
Saturday night was insisting he would stay in the presidential race to the
end su...
A Better Stablecoin on a Perp DEX
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Creating a stablecoin position on a perp exchange is hard, but it should
be easy. It not only caters to demand, but it also adds liquidity to perp
marke...
Sitzkrieg?
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Several People have inquired why I have not written a column for TR in some
time. Let me assure them I am in good health and face no lack of material
as o...
A Few Things We Don’t Quite Get About the Levant
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(First Draft of the Foreword to Pierre Zalloua’s forthcoming book. For
comments.)
Europa was the daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre
Some people believe tha...
How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear
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What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that
fear, once and for all?
In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that b...
Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately
-
Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for
Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that
Israel’s...
Speaking trip this April
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I'm speaking at Libertycon in Tbilisi on April 20th, will probably either
go or come via London. Anyone interested in a talk? I'll probably be in
Europe ...
Recent work
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The New Labor Antitrust, SSRN The Trump Indictment and America’s Political
Order, Project Syndicate, June 14, 2023 The Revised Merger Guidelines Will
Resto...
ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION
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Snacks, aka “Bread” or “The Louisiana Succubus”, is infamous within the
sector.…
The post ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION appeared first on
TheRa...
New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve
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They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat,
get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every
Democrat-...
"Realist Jurisprudence: Selected Essays"
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A Spanish translation by Dr. Francisco M. Mora-Sifuentes of eight of my
essays on realist jurisprudence and related topics (with a new preface by
me and an...
A pyramid scheme of misery
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Róisín Michaux at The Critic on the mothers who affirm their children's
trans identities: I’ve spent the last couple of years lurking on their
online fora....
Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives
-
Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet
its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and
joined the...
A Crusader’s Mom
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Something a bit different. Early crusaders were volunteers, who took vows
to go on a crusade, rather than members of a professional army. As a
result, they...
U.S. Openly Militarizes Space
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The media have noticed that the new USSF Doctrine is more focused on
aligning space activity with the twelve principles of warfare as a whole
The post U....
Rochester gets burned over
-
Fenster writes: The burned over district: The term “burned-over district”
refers to the western and central regions of New York State in the early
19th cen...
Lionising the lionesses
-
Football has kept me sane during a difficult part of my life. There have
been weeks in the past two years when the only place I’ve left my home to
visit ha...
Russia: Defend Boris Kagarlitsky!
-
News of Kagarlitsky's arrest has sparked anger and empathy among a wide
range of activists. People may perish, but ideas do not, and Kagarlitsky
has done...
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
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I am currently reading *The Master and His Emissary*, which appears to be
an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience
literature...
The persistence of belief and certainty
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Long thought. Don’t say you had no warning. The explicitly secular
perspective is that there is no proof of a spiritual layer to human
experience,
Continue...
Draco Layer Four: The Anagogic or Mystical Sense
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Here be dragons. And doves.
Human beings long for transcendence. Such longing is, for the world, always
out of fashion because, of course, it is not a long...
UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report
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On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and
Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical
visit ...
Conversations With Cabbies
-
Many a foreign correspondent, sent to an obscure country of which he knows
nothing but which has suddenly drawn the world’s attention to itself by a
terrib...
Moving to Substack
-
Hi all, this is a pointer to direct you over to Substack. I’m moving the
Econ Growth Blog over there, with the hopes of creating a little more
interactio...
A Few Quick Announcements
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By James As I wrote a couple of years ago, I don’t post here anymore. I
just have a couple of updates for people who subscribe and may be
interested in my ...
Breaking my Flag
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For those who missed the previous announcements, please read the previous
posts for the details, but after 18 2/3 years here, I will no longer be
posti...
Wrapping things up here
-
I thought I should mention to any long-time readers that I am going to be
letting this domain name lapse at the end of the month. I notice that
certain p...
Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities
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The social dynamics of girls’ and women’s friendship groups, including a
desire to fit in and avoid conflict, may make them more susceptible to
social cont...
AI Will Kill Literature, and AI Will Resurrect It
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The literary novel, as far as genres go, is not that old: novels have
existed in our culture for about three hundred years. If you had a time
machine, you ...
Subscribe to my Substack
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For most intents and purposes, this blog is dead. Comments are still
permitted and errors will be corrected if pointed out. Nevertheless, all
new writing w...
Blog Migration!
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Birds migrate, butterflies migrate, whales migrate, and this blog is
migrating! It's being moved over from Blogger to Substack. The URL is
currently http...
How Eric Hobsbawm anticipated Synthetic Marx
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I have to admit that I expected some pushback against the thesis of my
paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx:
Measuring the ...
Have the Baby Boomers Ruined Society?
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Introduction.The author is a young energetic historian who has entertaining
and insightful ideas. His exuberance on occasion leads him astray, he can
be to...
As Good As A Rest, They Said
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Or, The Cause Of All The Banging And Salty Epithets. After close to sixteen
years, this blog has a new home. Come see. Bring cake.
Another one bites the dust.
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I don’t usually cover the events of the day, because one loses track of the
big picture. The events of the day only reveal their meaning when viewed
months...
10 Predictions for the next 5 to 10 years
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A friend asked what the big trends in American society over the next five
to ten years would be. This is a fun time frame to think about, because you
don’t...
Getting Down To Basics with
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Bar Mitzvah Food Catering – Tips For Budget-Conscious Caterers For lots of,
bar mitzvah food catering is a high-ticket item. […]
The post Getting Down To...
CSPI is Moving To Substack
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A couple of months ago, I wrote about why, if you’re a writer, you should
be on Substack. At the same time, CSPI was publishing all of its material
on ou...
Who Cares About Diversity?
-
All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a
condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how
they a...
Moving to Substack . . .
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The times, they are a changin'. Going forward, I will primarily be blogging
on Substack: https://stevewinkler.substack.com.
Bryan Caplan, who else, convin...
My Final Post
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For various reasons, I have decided to quit blogging. For one thing, my
numbers are down to a level that it doesn’t seem worth it to continue,
though let m...
AdSense became unusable
-
For several months, I have been getting direct censorship requests from
Google AdSense. In recent days, the frequency increased to "several
articles to be ...
RIP, Amy's Blog: 1997 to 2021
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I have two intense books I'm completing, and I've been increasingly unable
to put the effort into blogging that I have done for years...
Filtering For Truth In The Age Of Google
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Over the years, I’ve met several individuals of immense capacity for
logical deduction, genuinely impressive education, and sky-high IQ (we’re
talking well...
The shameful silence on the Waukesha massacre
-
Is silence still violence? If it is, then a whole lot of people, from the
Hollywood set to the virtue-signalling left, are guilty of some serious
violenc...
Customer Agent Rendering
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A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a
brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial
commitment transac...
The blog has moved
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It is now on substack (In My Tribe). There is still no charge to read it. I
am trying to maintain the feel of this blog, including the daily scheduled
post...
Good Chart Checklist
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Note: this was prepared for my ECON 3403 students, and is a list of all of
the mistakes I commonly see in student charts. Please add your suggestions
for t...
Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 31: Whose History?
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The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose
history is (and isn't) being taught.
Following on the heels of a recent and ...
Thank You
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[image: 11032021Thanks1]
Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital,
difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous.
There ...
Thank You
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[image: 11032021Thanks1]
Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital,
difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous.
There ...
The Medieval Origins of Halloween Traditions
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We’ve been knee-deep in pumpkin spice for weeks, now, which means (1)
Starbucks may be part of a secret cabal intent on world domination through
tasty me...
What does Lisa Birnbach say about preppy cars?
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I happen to have a copy of The Official Preppy Handbook, and it seems that
preppy cars barely changed at all since the book was written in 1980.
That’s 41 ...
18 Theses on Poetry
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The principal purpose of poetry is to lay bare the hidden powers of the
language in which it is written. These powers are found both at the level
of the ph...
Dr. John McAdams
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*October 26th, 1945 - April 15th, 2021*
Dr. John Charles McAdams passed away on Thursday, April 15th, 2021, at the
age of 75. He was a devoted husband, ...
health care
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These two graphs really say it all:
A few years ago I got a freak knee infection that landed me in the
hospital. The experience was so smooth, non-st...
A new legend
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Unauthorized is very, very pleased to announce that MADE BY JIMBOB has
joined the intellectual outlaws of the Internet. Look for his videos on the
Made b...
A handy guide to getting pinged
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The NHS App could be expanded to help us make ‘informed decisions’ in all
kinds of everyday scenarios. AI algorithms would replace the flawed notion
of ‘wo...
The Sad, Discordant Ballad of Husham al-Hashimi
-
The man who pulled the trigger on Husham al-Hashimi—by first misfiring an
assault rifle and then pulling out his pistol to shoot the victim at
point-blank ...
IEA World Congress 2021
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A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World
Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in
a Fractured...
Money “Front & Center”
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This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved
my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so
no on...
Money “Front & Center”
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This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved
my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so
no on...
the future
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Hey gang, I’m excited to say that Substack approached me recently and made
an attractive financial offer for me to blog over there. Given that I’ve
been ou...
Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis
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We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all
guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no
longer be ...
‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand
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Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in
what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in
a va...
Introducing Astral Codex Ten
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Thanks for bearing with me the past few months. My new blog is at
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/. I’ll try to have a less unwieldy
domain name workin...
We lost. Now what?
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I was preparing this post, anticipating that nothing would happen on
January 6, that the certification of Biden would go forward with minor
bluster and maj...
‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage
-
Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on
about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than
the govern...
Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies”
-
Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all
Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at
best … Me...
A Letter to TAI’s Subscribers and Readers
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Dear TAI readers,Due primarily to financing difficulties, The American
Interest is taking a hiatus from publishing new material.We are glad that
there is...
Biotin for hair: what can this vitamin do to hair?
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What is this vitamin? How does it act on the wires? Does it make hair grow
faster? For more insights jump to: best biotin shampoo
We know that our hair l...
Humanity’s second “cradle” in Southeast Asia
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Pleistocene Sundaland
This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google
Podcasts) Razib and Spencer talk about a topic which they hav...
The spin on the spin
-
There's been something of a triumph of spin on the EU's MFF share-out. Oh I
don't mean the headlines, which we summarised last week, but the rationale.
Spa...
Migrating the blog
-
It should be back soon. If you really want it find something right now,
it’s all still there, just hiding at a slightly different (temporary)
address: http...
The End
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Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called
“Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but
also somewh...
A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020
-
I published the first Overlawyered post on July 1, 1999, and I expect this
post on May 31, 2020 will be the last. As someone in the entertainment
world o...
Cold War 2 Propaganda
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So it seems that hostility to China is now official American policy.
Redgov, i.e. the Military Industrial Complex has been pushing it for quite
a while, ...
Recent writing
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I haven’t written recently on this blog. I wrote for a year at The American
Conservative. All the pieces are available here. I also wrote a piece
Covid-19 ...
One flu over the cuckold’s nest
-
There have been a few articles like this doing the rounds: What It’s Like
to Isolate With Your Girlfriend and Her Other Boyfriend Humiliating and
degrading...
The real problem is also nominal
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The real problem is also nominal
March 15, 2020
*Confidence level (?): thinking out loud*
If I closed my eyes and completely wiped from my mind the fac...
Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague
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[ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of
outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson
@PalliTho...
Coronavirus, the Great Reality Check
-
I’ve been watching the situation in China for nearly a month now, and I
don’t think there are really words for how bad things are over there. I
really am...
Podcast on Maritime Policy
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I recently recorded an episode of The Economics Detective podcast with
Garrett Petersen. The subject of the podcast is my paper, “U.S. Maritime
Policy and ...
Book Review: Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier
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There are two core arguments put forward in *Not Born Yesterday*, the
latest book by cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier. The first argument, one
which I be...
Steno Majesty
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This beautiful lady, known as the White Rose, was Queen Consort Geraldine
of Albania in the 1930s. Don’t look closely into her politics – she and her
husba...
Mike Bloomberg and is “Stop and Frisk” Racist?
-
With the entry of former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg into the race to be
the Democratic Party presidential nominee, we have the inevitable. The
other r...
An Alternative Proposal for the BBC
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by Douglas Carter I want to pay more money for product from the BBC.
That’s not an intentionally incendiary sentiment. In terms, it’s exactly
the correct ...
Free College: Not So Extreme
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I’ve complained that for the most part, self-identified centrists and
moderates prefer not to engage in direct arguments about their policy
preferences in ...
Three laws of contemporary philosophy
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FIRST LAW: Question everything! SECOND LAW: . . . except for the victimhood
of women, racial minorities, LGBT, etc. THIRD LAW: Never, ever mention the
seco...
Trashed Hotel rooms and horny groupies
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Hey y'all, starting on April first, I am hitting the virtual road on my
first blog tour to support Feral Creatures. Over 14 days, we will be making
twenty...
Coronavirus - radical thoughts.
-
On January 25th, Neil Ferguson said that it was sensible to plan for the
eventuality that containment efforts will not succeed:
I think the evidence now s...
Forgiveness is only appropriate after repentance
-
The people who tried to thwart the implementation of a vote they lost must
not be forgiven until they repent. People like Jolyon Maugham QC could have
push...
Warming and the Snows of Yesteryear
-
I was recently reminded of one of the most common misconceptions about our
changing climate that is often accepted as fact by climate skeptics and
true b...
New Book: ESCAPING PATERNALISM
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by Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman Book description The burgeoning field of
behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for
paternalism. ...
Message heard.
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I’ve been deeply moved and humbled by the overwhelming response to my post
announcing that I planned on shutting down the blog. I’ve reconsidered and
deci...
Is evolutionary psychology impossible?
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p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } Subrena Smith recently argued that
“evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible”
(Smith 2019). I ...
I now blog on the Volokh Conspiracy
-
For the past few months, I have blogged at the Volokh Conspiracy, hosted by
Reason. I had hoped to give to give this blog, which I founded in September
200...
Mungowit's End
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I created a YouTube channel, with short videos based on some of my essays
on economics.
Fun to make, and I'm learning a lot about videos, to help me teach...
Dad Runes
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The 29th of this month would have been Terje Spurkland's 72nd birthday. I
first encountered him in the academic year of 1980-81, when I was on a
scholars...
The midrise obesity crisis in North America
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Well, it's been a long while since my last post. A combination of a busy
life, a feeling that I had said most of what I felt comfortable saying and
a des...
Gender is not just a Social Construct
-
As the decade ends, I’m still pondering gender. Everything was so different
in 2010. No intersectionality. No rape culture. No toxic masculinity. No
incels...
On the nature of forgiveness
-
Forgiveness is not an emotion or a single action. It is rather a change in
your ontological* orientation towards the forgiven person, removing
them fro...
Refuge Seeking in Relative Safety
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There is a common misconception among Christians in particular that I’ve
been mulling over these past weeks. As usual, my thoughts have been
straying to Aa...
2019: The year revolt went global
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Revolt as Consumer Backlash Beyond Washington DC, Donald Trump, and
impeachment, there lies a great big world – and that world, at the moment,
is being con...
“Goodnight, and Good Luck”
-
My February 2016 valedictory editorial note on the home page of Al Jazeera
America the day we closed down. Still proud of the work we did, and the way
we c...
Dictators
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In my corner of Twitter, I recently became obliquely aware of a kerfuffle
about Michael Bloomberg saying that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator”.
(Twitter is f...
Links 1-30 November 2019
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Tab dump.
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Moral Leadership and the Lebanese Military | Carnegie
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Reforming Tunisia’s military courts | Brookings
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Ira...
Announcing New Books from Jerry Pournelle
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Jerry’s son Alex has asked that we let you know of exciting book news for
fans of Dr. Jerry Pournelle’s fiction. The “Best of Jerry Pournelle” is
available...
Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses
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I am well used to getting trashed on the internet. It comes with the job.
And truth be told, I […]
The post Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses appea...
Nature Author's Oddball Piece on Bioethics
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The journal Nature has published a lengthy Commentary piece by a UK based
sociologist on Bioethics (the field, not the journal). It's part of a
series of...
From lesbian and gay liberation to equality
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Ruth Hunt, for her hundred thousand a year pieces of silver, has sold out
lesbians and gay men out to girl dick and corporate cock.
The post From lesbia...
Allan Meltzer's Life Work
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The Hoover Press and the Mercatus Center have just released a new book on
Allan Meltzer's contributions to economics. The book is comprised of papers
th...
Taking the BPTC in the 15th-century
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The 15th-century was the time in which English law came, in many ways, to
resemble its modern form. There was parliament with a House of Commons and
a Hous...
MESA 2019–Medieval and Early Modern Panels
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The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is holding its annual
conference, one of the largest gatherings of scholars working on the
history of the greate...
THE DEFENSE OF FORT DAVIS, Chapter 4
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Chapter 4 Six miles west of Fort Davis, Fall 1881 Chief Victorio blew into
his clenched hands, rubbed them together and held them toward the flames.
Even w...
Why Trump Is a Potential Tyrant: A Comparative Look
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The question is not about whether Trump will be a tyrant, but that he wants
to. Trump wants to be a tyrant, his behavior shows he's behaving like other
tyr...
Giving Credit Where It’s Due
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The US economy is probably going into recession. Manufacturing production
is down from the late-2018 highs, retail spending growth, wages and payroll
gai...
The CTRL ALT Revolt Controversy
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The Original Blog Post and some Thoughts on the Crisis of Where We Find
Ourselves As the current culture war escalates into a series of
asymmetrical engage...
CNN Debate Math
-
The Democratic debates on July 30 and 31 were a little less than 3 hours
long each. A conservative estimate would be 150 minutes.
150 minutes /10 candidat...
Important: Nintil.com is moving!
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: I’ve been making changes to the way the blog looks like,
making it load faster, and adding it a much needed feature, browsing by
category...
A Glimpse of Hell
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Via Religion News: HOT SPRINGS, N.C. (RNS) — For years, liberals — even
liberal people of faith — have been wary of fusions of faith and politics,
careful ...
Crypto-Current (064)
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§5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication,
and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it
become trac...
Blog moving to Spandrell.com
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***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS
readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t
say a...
Socialist Monetary Policy
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Consider a command economy that doesn't fully dispense with money but
rather pays wages to the workers in all of the nationalized industries and
charges th...
Version 1.3.2 now uploaded
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Version 1.3.2 now uploaded A new version of the NIQ dataset was completed
yesterday and uploaded today. It now includes 669 samples with a total of
617,581...
Boston Marathon Training Update, new podcasts
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The last time I updated my marathon training, things were going great. I
had steadily increased my mileage, and by the end of January did my first
half-mar...
The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism
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Antisemitism has returned to mainstream politics in Europe and America. One
fundamental misconception about antisemitism is that it is simply another
for...
Momentum needs to talk to its members about Israel
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On Thursday afternoon, the left-wing activist group Momentum released a
video designed to educate its members about anti-Semitism. It's the kind of
init...
Seumas Milne and the Stasi
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Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that
held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the
fall of ...
Diversity’s Dilemma
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There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the
ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the
prisoner’s dilemm...
Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube
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Apparently the original posting of this (staggeringly brief) talk suffered
from imperfect audio (I never listened to it, so I can't say first-hand
whethe...
European Court’s Anti-Muslim Ruling
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In a decision made this October, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
has neglected the basic principle of freedom of speech to uphold the “right
of o...
The Authoritarian Power Base
-
As I’ve written, political power is, in essence, the capacity for violence
and the will to use it. The power of a leader comes from his authority
over, his...
Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little
-
Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state.
Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and
the veiling ...
Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene
-
Not long ago, similar emails to the one I'll share below were only sent to
me by Muslims questioning their faith, scripture and double standards, etc.
I s...
Dragon Ball series teaches valuable life lessons
-
Watching the Dragon Ball series life lesson nostalgia. Every episode hints
at hidden esoteric gems. Allow me to provide a high-level overview of
what’s r...
The era of ‘soft’ central planning
-
More than a decade ago, The Economist (at the time still a classical
liberal publication – how times change…) published an excellent article on
‘soft pater...
Calling for Violent Jihad in Australia
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This Blog Post has been moved – click HERE to read it.
* Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or
forwarded so long as it is ...
What is the meaning of an accusation of racism?
-
Guy comes up to you on the street and says: “I know who you are. You may
look like a human, but I know that’s a disguise. You have taken over the
body of a...
The Power of Positive Persistence
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Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress
for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House
will ...
Review of "Weep For Day" by Indrapramit Das (2012)
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*Introduction: *Being well aware that this story was probably put at the
head of the *Best New SF 26* anthology to highlight some sort of
committment to "...
A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM
-
Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If
you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter
account) ...
The Stormtrooper Marksmanship Myth
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[Jonathan Jeckell is a regenerated U.S. Army officer striving find unique
ways to remain useful to his country.] Stormtroopers have been the butt of
jokes ...
Ideas Generation and Behavioural Insights
-
Here is the ideas grid I use when working with local authorities to
co-produce ways of using behavioural insights. Each effect has a ‘how can
we use it?’ c...
New Immigration Blog
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Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog
fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe
a post...
Financial globalisation: Whither Financialisation
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McKinsey has recently released an excellent summary of global finance. The
authors present a positive picture of global finance despite the
significant de...
Labour relations & textiles: addenda
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This post contains related topics and disjointed observations as addenda to
“Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence” in cotton textiles.
(Lack of...
Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing
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Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia
students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester
I'm teaching...
The Morality of Faith Schools
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On Wednesday July 19 I appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze to discuss the
Al-Hijrah school controversy. A long-running legal battle between Ofsted
and the...
Moderate rebels and augmented reality
-
A common characteristic of the multiple regime change interventions in the
Middle East is the financial, military, and moral support given by Western
gov...
This blog is now closed...
-
...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that
appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be
issu...
The Sovereign Myth
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States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to
ignore only while things are going well.
The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...
On the Importance of Voting
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On this Thursday, 8th of June 2017, millions of people will be going to
polling stations throughout the United Kingdom in order to cast their vote
in t...
How the Democrats can Rebuild
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Appearing in:
Orange County Register
Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded
the parlous state of the Democratic Part...
Military Power in an Age of Raiding
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I was lucky enough to be invited to speak as part of the Ministry of
Defence’s new ‘Force Exploration’ Cadre. Here it is. I’m so grateful and
honoured to b...
Africa and the cold beauty of Maths
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[image: Africa TIMMS equipercentile]
Things move fast. A published paper comes to the attention of Steve Sailer
and suddenly a section of a puzzle get...
Moving house
-
People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more
anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from
this bl...
“The Intel On This Wasn’t 100 Percent”
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Gee. Ya think? Mr. Welch, the father of two daughters, said he woke up
Sunday morning and told his family he had some things to do. He left
“Smallsbury,” a...
Europe is collapsing
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A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going
down, one by...
The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...
Anarchism
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Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace
both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable,
inclu...
501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50.
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No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of
Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of
Troyes, in...
Heroic Age Papers!
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Merovingians and Their Neighbors
Sponsor: *The Heroic Age*
Session Organizer: Deanna Forsman
Contact: Deanna Forsman North Hennepin Community College 7411 ...
Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons
-
MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an
emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the
seasons and ...
THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN
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The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening
and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…
The Redistribution of Humiliation
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The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to
voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st
Centu...
Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism
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“We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken
to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what
Venezuela...
Fiscal Policy and the ZLB
-
I have been doing some reading for my undergraduate thesis, which looks at
the role of credit-supply shocks in the Spain during its housing boom and
bust, ...
Every day should be International Women’s Day
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Every day should be International Women’s Day Bread and Roses TV with
Maryam Namazie and Fariborz Pooya 8 March 2016 Interview with Bangladeshi
Author and ...
Samurai Gifts
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The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other
ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late
sixteenth and ...
Where are the “devaluationists”?
-
A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of
the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section
on policy op...
Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia.
-
Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid
Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called
Cappadocia....
Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine
-
When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris
attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong
but ...
The Sumner Also Rises (to the task)
-
We again interrupt our blogging hiatus, to acknowledge some fine work by
Bentley University economist Scott Sumner (who is also the Ralph G. Hawtrey
Chair ...
We've Moved
-
The Mischiefs of Faction is now located at mischiefsoffaction.com. Here's
how to follow us:
All our posts will appear on our new homepage, here.
You can...
A Koku of Rice
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Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of a koku (石) of rice: I find
it pretty neat. A koku was a Japanese unit of volume (of rice) in use
especially ...
Book Review: Intelligence (2015) by Stuart Ritchie
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An Uphill Battle It’s no easy task to explain why intelligence is so
important. The reason for this is oddly enough that many highly intelligent
people i...
A CryptoFiction
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Here’s a micro-story I started with the Access Crypto Summit flash fiction
prompt in mind, left half done, and then belatedly finished off anyway,
because ...
Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie.
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Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s
History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in
translation...
Why Mothers Are So Special
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Mothers hold a privileged status within the human experience. I address
some of the foundational evolutionary principles that explain the
mother-child bond...
The Years Of Writing Dangerously
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Thirteen years ago, as I was starting to experiment with this blogging
thing, I wrote the following: [T]he speed with which an idea in your head
reaches th...
Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef
-
In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the
Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian
politics by Pr...
Our first virtual Screenwriting Workshop!
-
T woke up on Monday with the idea,
bubbling with notions, and I think it's
a fabulous way to explore the new
media potentials for a virtual classroom.
We c...
Taxation vs. Expropriation
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What’s the difference between a 50% marginal tax rate on income vs. 50%
expropriation by a kleptocratic ruler or corrupt officials? Some models
might sug...
18c – a win for Sally Sensitive
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Sadly, it looks like 18c is not going to be done away with in a hurry. It’s
a shame, because making a crime out of causing offence to someone is an
utte...
The streets of old Fitzroy
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I've lived in Fitzroy for 14 years, and long before I moved here spent some
formative moment in its pubs and terrace houses. I have an unpublished
novel th...
By: Anonymous
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Great article, however, I don't see yet a study explaining the effects of
Cannabis being freed completely overnight, lifting all restrictions and
allowing ...
Norman Geras: 1943-2013
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I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in
Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Writing this blog, and
communicating wi...
OxcOOd1199 Error
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Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content.
However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error
occuri...
Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained
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*MEDIA *INFORMATION
*NEWS FROM THE EAST HAM TEAM*
For Immediate Use
11 June 2013
*Jide who played Jesus to be ordained*
The man who played Jesus in the N...
Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe
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But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us
which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure
gue...
An Independent Wild Hunt
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We at the Patheos Pagan channel bid The Wild Hunt much luck in its new
phase as an independent website. To catch the latest from TWH, please check
out wild...
Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed
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Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled
Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is
no way to ge...
Actually, maybe it is the NGDP after all
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I’ve gotten a lot of really smart pushback on my claims about the UK
economy, and I think I have significantly underestimated what I already
believed to be...
Moving to FTB!
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Today I am freezing my Blogger account and moving my blog to Freethought
Blogs, a prominent all-atheist venture. This move will help me earn an
income doin...
Sharia law, universal rights and secularism
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See my speech and the ensuing discussion at a meeting organised by the
Danish Atheist Association in Copenhagen, Denmark on 27 September 2011.
There was a ...
The tax forum as a platform for a grand bargain?
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In his Challenges of Federation speech we referred to in a previous article,
Prime Minister’s Department Secretary Terry Moran said:
*There are business l...
The satisfaction of learning a new skill
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Today I learned how to do short row shaping in knitting. It's a technique
that is easy to do, and hard to explain. I've tried several times in the
past. so...
The Rand Paul reality for gays
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Some Republicans are trying to brush it off as the kind of debate you have
in you freshman dorm at 2 a.m. Not so for us gays. The objection raised by
Rand ...
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EVEN THE LIBERAL NEW REPUBLIC... (PART II): The cover of the current issue
of the New Republic blares, The Battle for Tora Bora: The Untold Story.
It's a g...
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