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Why Subcultures Die
I gave a talk recently to a chapter of the American Humanist Association. The audience was smaller than I expected and old; it felt to me like the…
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Bogus Quotes
“Two-third of the quotes on the Internet are bogus” (Mark Twain or possibly Lenin)
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Plumbing
We live in a house that was built in 1905 — with galvanized steel water pipes and cast iron drains, neither of which can be counted on to last for a…
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Post Script
To my previous post
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Prosecutorial Discretion
Problems and Solutions
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Enforcing the Constitution
"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" (Apocryphal quote attributed to Andrew Jackson)
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Games as Training
At a time so long ago that long distance calls were expensive, I was in Europe, my parents were in America, and we had to coordinate our plans. At some…
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Concerning Covid
Vaccination If the question is whether I should get vaccinated in order to protect myself, the main issue is effectiveness against hospitalization or…
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Vivek Ramaswamy
He is the most entertaining of the presidential candidates and I agree with several of his positions, but his defenses of some of them strike me as…
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Concerning Baths and Showers
A recent trip by car most of the way across the country and back provided me a substantial sample of motel showers. The most recent, in a Hampton Inn…
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Ptolemaic Trade Policy
More than four hundred years ago a Polish astronomer redrew the universe. Educated men throughout Europe believed in a spherical earth at the center of…
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August 2023
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