Climate skeptics right! A titanic win from leaked documents . . .
RMS Titanic sank? No one alive today saw it sink. According to Salt's site, iIntercepted memoranda raise doubts about alleged boat's alleged sinking, and alleged engineering and design errors. Alun...
View ArticleAiring the place out
Here’s a sign that that conservatives are — finally, but not quickly enough, if they are producing so much — drowning in their own bile. Dr. Don Boudreaux at the Heritage Foundation. Image copyright by...
View ArticleQuote of the moment: Jonathan Weiner’s Pulitzer-winning explanation of...
When evolutionists study these worldwide resistance movements, they see four classes of adaptations arising, because an insect under attack has four possible routes to survival. Jonathan Weiner, author...
View ArticleEnd of the end of the world as we know it . . .
. . . didn’t happen. Our friend, The Sensuous Curmudgeon, got it right, I think: The BBC reports ‘Rapture': Believers perplexed after prediction fails. It says: Some believers expressed bewilderment or...
View ArticleThat flag you flew yesterday — want to burn it today?
Some of the more astute students in our high school classes ask questions about everything. For example, they ask: “What does the Pledge of Allegiance mean, when it says, ‘ . . . and to the Republic...
View ArticleCoach the beauty pageant contestants in critical thinking, please
Everybody else has to know it, or suffer without it. Can you tell which of these is the parody? Is it this one? Or is it this one? Stephen Law reports the science geek won the competition — maybe that...
View ArticleLong time coming: Current insanity
I get e-mail from a friend on the high desert plains of the Mountain West: On the other hand, maybe if we hadn’t been so polite for so long, they wouldn’t have had reason to think they could get away...
View ArticleQuote of the moment: Jefferson, on reason in a republic
Bust of Jefferson in the Great Hall, Library of Congress (Jefferson Building) – photo by Carol Highsmith. The plaster bust of Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) is a copy of a work by the French sculptor...
View Article‘My right NOT to know, and your right to duck my bullets’
I like Morgan Freeberg — he’s entertaining. Politically, he’s rarely right, and he’s definitely afflicted with that virus that strikes conservatives and makes them feel that if they can cover a topic...
View ArticleWin P. Z. Myers’s book!
Go here to ShelfAwareness, enter to win a copy of P. Z. Myers’s book The Happy Atheist. They’ll subscribe you to their newsletter list. But it’s a nice newsletter for smart and happy people who like...
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