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It's a merry Kitzmas Judge Jones has rendered his decision in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case. Many megabytes of com...

Cruel to be kind Some senior citizens have a special "phone voice" that they use during telephone conversations. Perhaps you know ...

Welcome to the surveillance society So the government's been spying on us. Is anyone surprised? The president has "authorized"...

False starts A dillar, a dollar A ten o'clock scholar Why do you come so soon? You used to come at ten o'clock But now you come at n...

Not what you think Colors carry associations, reminding people of different events or occasions. Red and green carry some particularly idios...

Choosing the right targets I have heard it said that anti-Catholicism is the last socially acceptable form of prejudice. Apparently, these d...

Denotation vs. connotation cel·i·ba·cy : noun 1 : the state of not being married 2 a : abstention from sexual intercourse b : abstention by ...

And also on you Dear Lord, they're at it again. I am already on record in support of the notion that Roman Catholicism is the authentic...

Nixon in 1974 Many news stories dutifully report that Representative John Murtha (D-PA) was first elected to Congress in 1974. I have not se...

Physician, heel! NARTH is always good for a laugh, but not the funny kind. Derision is more appropriate. NARTH is the National Association...

All things being equal The concept of null hypothesis is a stumbling block to many statistics students. Perhaps people resist the notion of...

Humans are not well-ordered Mathematics is good stuff. I would never deny that. Still, mathematical ideas sometimes intrude where they do no...

A game for the skeptical masses Most people manage to hang on to religious beliefs even after abandoning their youthful devotion to the cult...

Looking at "luck" I am not prepared to enter into the concept of luck, as it is vulgarly called: philosophically it is indefensib...