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Jesus didn’t walk on water?
Vanderleun explains the peculiar mindset of today’s secular atheists. Nice, but a bit wordy. My summary: they’re a bunch of bullying chickenshits. Read more
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And I’m supposed to graduate over half of them?
My university wants to crank up our student graduation rate to over 50%. Hell, only 30% of Texas students can pass a physical fitness test! Test details here. Read more
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Why I don’t do hyphens
Wretchard says it better than anyone else: The greatest damage that political correctness has inflicted on society is to make each of forget that underneath the accidents of color, nationality and creed, that all of us are men. By dividing humanity into hyphenated buckets, each sequestered in its hate, the puppet masters have managed to Read more
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Save the Planet! Kill Yourself!
It’s easy, just keep using that nasty eco-bag. Tip from Planet Gore. Read more
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Every cloud has a silver lining
Here’s one from the Research 2000 debacle–a nice example of variance reduction through stratified sampling. Read more
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Tools Explained
Dad sent this shopping list of tools for my shop: I do need another pair of those son-of-a-bitch vise-grips. Read more
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The Plato Code
Dr Jay Kennedy at the University of Manchester has discovered hidden messages in the writings of Plato. This should give the philosophers something to chew on! Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Florentines
At lunch today my niece Michelle asked about "those wonderful lacy Christmas cookies" I used to bake. I had forgotten all about Florentines! So here’s the recipe, provided to me by Jenny Mattingsly and Debra Auden of the (now defunct) LocuStreet Bakery: ALMOND FLORENTINES 2 cups almonds — 1 cup ground, 1 cup sliced1 1/3 Read more
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Ain’t nobody here but us chickens…
FOUR HUNDRED lefty journalists participate in a private listserv that just happens to advance their political agenda, and it’s NOT a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy? Of course not, ’cause Walter Shaprio sez it ain’t: JournoList was a private bull session which brought together left-of-center think tankers, government-oriented academics and opinion-mongers to discuss and debate economics, Read more
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I’ve always been uncomfortable with all those H-1B visas
The STEM bubble is long overdue for popping: Harvard economist George Borjas has documented that an influx of Ph.D.s from abroad reduces incomes of all comparable doctorates. Although some people argue that advanced education assures good career prospects, “the supply-demand textbook model is correct after all,” Borjas says. It turns out to work as powerfully Read more
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