Saturday, December 27, 2003

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MORE ON GREENIE CRAZINESS I thought I had covered the ozone story before but cannot see where I did -- so: In 1991, the Greenies got ev...

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ELSEWHERE Arlene Peck has some Hanukkah reflections. I liked this one: "you never have a silent night when a room full of Jewish...
Friday, December 26, 2003

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NEW RESEARCH ON ASIAN IQ CONFIRMS PREVIOUS FINDINGS There has been heaps of evidence for decades to show that all nations are not the sa...

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ELSEWHERE Maybe I am a sentimental old fool but I always feel a bit teary when I watch the Queen's Christmas message on TV. She alw...
Thursday, December 25, 2003

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL WHO COME BY HERE I am an atheist but I still love Christmas and am profoundly grateful for m...

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INDIA IS MORE ENGLISH THAN WE THINK I have often made the point that the Left/Right divide in the English-speaking world is largely a di...

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ELSEWHERE Readers of this blog will of course have noted that Keith Burgess-Jackson and I often link to one-another. We also correspon...
Wednesday, December 24, 2003

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IF CONSERVATIVES ARE SUPPOSED TO FAVOUR THE STATUS QUO, NO-ONE TOLD RICHARD NIXON To reasonable people (NOT including Leftist psychologi...

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ELSEWHERE AUSTRALIA'S radical Muslims are trying to sabotage Christmas , according to the nation's most senior Islamic leader, S...
Tuesday, December 23, 2003

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MORE ON THE CROOKED WOODMEN As a comment on my recent post about the "Crooked Timber" blog (see December 21 below), one of my ...

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ELSEWHERE The Pope gets it right : "POPE John Paul II has praised Singaporeans for being able to live together harmoniously, especi...
Monday, December 22, 2003

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THE CLINTON LEGACY "How dare we forget his appeasement toward North Korea, virtually inviting her to cheat on her nuclear agreement...

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ELSEWHERE I have just received a Xmas email from Chris Brand wishing me "Happy Kwanzaa!" I got one last year too I think. ...
Sunday, December 21, 2003

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CROOKED ALL-RIGHT! "Crooked Timber" seems to be some sort of Leftist philosopher. I would never have read him except that Ke...

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ELSEWHERE I did not mention the Libyan story yesterday since everyone else was all over it but Hippercritical has some reasonable comme...
Saturday, December 20, 2003

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THE LYING SKEPTICS It gets worse. It looks like "The Skeptical Inquirer" was not credulous but straight-out dishonest in th...

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ELSEWHERE Great stuff! In Canada a single guy can get a pension by claiming that he had a homosexual lover who died. Bad luck if your...
Friday, December 19, 2003

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Blogspot seems to be having another one of their "bad" periods at the moment. They have resumed "fixing" things that ...

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MORE ON THE CREDULOUS "SKEPTICS": A reader writes: "Your blog mentions that the "Skeptical Enquirer" seems ...

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ELSEWHERE There is an amusing comment here about how the Left could see nothing good in the capture of Saddam and will not see any good...