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“The first notable is that the two rates track closely, so that whatever is driving changes in the one is likely (but not certainly) driving changes in the other. The second remarkable feature is the abrupt increase in the turbulent 1960s, and the subsequent decline as the people responsible for these cultural excesses began to […]
The New York Times gives up on the global warming scam: The New York Times will close its environment desk in the next few weeks and assign its seven reporters and two editors to other departments. The positions of environment editor and deputy environment editor are being eliminated. No decision has been made about the […]
As some of you already know, I have declared myself to be a candidate for the SFWA president in the next election, which takes place this spring. Here are the first five points of my platform; I’m interested in any ideas for improving them: SPLIT THE NEBULA AWARDS: Science fiction is not fantasy. Fantasy is […]
The Sports Guy considers the question posed by a reader: “Two months from now, it’s very possible Tom Brady will have 3 NFL MVPs, 6 Super Bowl appearances and 4 rings. Wouldn’t that clinch him as the greatest QB of all time? It’s just as possible that two months from now, Peyton Manning will have […]
I happened to read two articles describing the same thing from very different perspectives earlier this week. Item One: Though few may doubt that Jewish life in America could be threatened, Gordis effectively explains why this luxury is precisely because of the modern state of Israel. In the most powerful passages of the lengthy piece, […]
BG: You are listening to Greenburg News with your host Brian Greenburg at WNJC 1360AM, now newly syndicated on WIFI 1460AM. We have an excellent show. I’m going to talk to the six people who actually watched the political convention. But we can talk about it. … There’s an election in November and for those […]
I tend to agree with those who believe that you can learn a lot about a man’s character from how he plays sports. In that vein, Tucker Max’s recollection of playing basketball with a mid-30s Barack Obama at the University of Chicago is informative indeed: “I do remember that he had a good understanding of […]
Ugo Bardi has a fascinating post on the way in which Rome hit its limits and how even those Romans who perceived its decline failed to understand why it was happening: The Meditations [of Marcus Aurelius] is a statement from a man who was seeing his world crumbling down around him and who strove nevertheless […]
Adognameop asks about the Vox, What do you make of the recent FBI report regarding Penn State? It seems to reveal what everybody already knew; that Paterno was an accomplice to child rape. Does it affect your opinion of Paterno? First, I would note that Paterno’s actions did not, in any way, make him “an […]
It will be interesting to see the disbelievers in pattern recognition attempt to explain this one away. You may recall that back in 2008, I noted that Obama’s IQ had an absolute sub-Mensa ceiling of 129 and that there was good reason to believe it is around 116. So, it was interesting to read this […]