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Meanwhile, over in Taiwan

While the Ficarra town fathers wait to see whether the Virgin will respond to their lotto hopes, and believers elsewhere pray for a reduction in their credit card debt  (I have witnessed this), devastating typhoons pummel East Asia.  “How dare … Continue reading

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Pascal’s Wager

Piling one irrationality onto another, the town fathers in the Sicilian town of Ficarra have collectively invested in Italy’s $165 million lottery: ”We chose numbers which were connected with the town’s patron saint, the Virgin Mary of the Assumption,” Mayor … Continue reading

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