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Many of these are quite good. For example: “Adulthood is the moment at which your expenditure on Christmas presents 
first exceeds the value of  the gifts you can expect to receive.”
- John Kay

The Browser Book of Quotations

You will find it here (pdf). There are numerous good bits, here is one of them: To admire an artist for his own sake, although certainly a compliment, can also be a way of suggesting that he has no p…

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I am not sure whether Scott Adams would be awesome or horrible to know in real life. Either way, he’d be entertaining.

Dilbert comic strip for 02/08/2013 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

The Official Dilbert Website featuring Scott Adams Dilbert strips, animation, mashups and more starring Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dogbert’s New Ruling Class and mor…

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I don’t think I’ve seen this observation anywhere else: “…if it defies good sense to send teenaged girls off into the woods with heterosexual men, it likely defies good sense to send teenaged boys off with homosexual men. This is no aspersion against homosexuals, except insofar as they are men, and we know enough about men to understand that some of them find teenagers sexually attractive, and the older and more mature-looking these teenagers, the easier it becomes for seemingly decent men to violate them while pretending the act is consensual.”

Sand in the Gears » Blog Archive » Gays, Boy Scouts, and dogma

Slippery words • Home •. Gays, Boy Scouts, and dogma. February 4th, 2013 Posted in Policy and Politics. The Boy Scouts of America is considering an end to its prohibition against homosexual troop lead…

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I get the argument he is making… but there are some channels I dislike so much that their presence in a bundle makes the bundle less desirable to me. I would pay more for less.

Does Cable TV Ripoff People Who Don’t Like Sports?

Recently the LATimes ignited a firestorm of anti-sports commentary by arguing that people who don’t watch sports are being ripped off by Cable TV. A key concern is that the higher bills driven by spor…

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This is good — especially the last sentence: “I think research in moral reasoning is important because understanding why good people do evil things is more important than understanding why evil people do evil things.”

Torture in a Just World

If the world is just, only the guilty are tortured. So believers in a just world are more likely to think that the people who are tortured are guilty. Perhaps especially so if they experience the tort…