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Yale’s feminists: Behaving hysterically

Sixteen Yale students and recent alumni are siccing the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on Yale College, claiming that the college denies girls the “same equal opportunity to the Yale education as their male counterparts,” in the words of … Continue reading

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Nerds and the supernatural

So the rapture didn’t happen. Not a big deal. Here’s one thing that I think warrants attention: Harold Camping is a nerd. He has a degree in civil engineering from Berkeley. As the British would say, “he can do the … Continue reading

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Karl Popper and the Rapture

It’s odd to observe conventional believers—such as Rush Limbaugh on his radio show today—mock the Rapture proponents.  The evidentiary basis for more mainstream propositions about the afterlife and the nature of God is identical to those predicting a Doomsday within … Continue reading

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The media joke of objectivity

This story is not written with serious intent, though its tone is serious. Make My Bed? But You Say the World’s Ending: The Haddad children of Middletown, Md., have a lot on their minds: school projects, SATs, weekend parties. And … Continue reading

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A new AIDS study; more pressure for AIDS spending

Since 2002, rich nations have given tens of billions of dollars in assistance to poor countries to stop the spread of AIDS; more billions have been spent on drug development.  Now, a $73 million study funded by the National Institutes … Continue reading

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Magical Thinking Watch: The New York Times calls for more sisterhood, less patriarchy

New York Times movie critic Manohla Dargis treats readers to a brilliant parody of  a Women’s Studies major today.  Dargis wittily incorporates every chestnut of angry feminist lore in her review of the movie Bridesmaids  (which I have not seen).   … Continue reading

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The emerging counternarrative

John Yoo claims that Obama ordered the killing rather than capture of OBL in order to avoid having to make hard decisions regarding his detention and interrogation: Mr. Obama’s policies now differ from their Bush counterparts mainly on the issue … Continue reading

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Western vs. Moderate Muslims

Since 9/11 the term “moderate Muslim” has been a catchall for Muslims-who-aren’t-bad in the everyday parlance of the USA. But the term is only marginally useful. First, there is a huge range in the term “moderate Muslim”. Some non-violent moderate … Continue reading

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What will Rush say?

And Mark Levin and Sean Hannity.  Their dilemma is acute:  how acknowledge the accomplishment of their decade-long desideratum–the killing of Osama Bin Laden–without giving Obama credit?  Arguably, Obama doesn’t deserve credit: he is the beneficiary of the continuous workings of … Continue reading

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Civilizational collapse, part 642: Studying the bus schedule in English class–for credit!

Is soullessness a job requirement for “education reformers?”  I have never seen evidence to the contrary.  The latest travesty to roll out of the ER factory is the so-called “Common Core” state standards initiative, a voluntary set of learning goals … Continue reading

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