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Heh: “Do you trust a lawyer whose job descrip­tion involves manip­u­lat­ing the truth? Or do you trust the free press whose mis­sion is to bring you accu­rate and use­ful news? I’m going with the lawyer on this one.”

Scott Adams Blog: The Shirt­less FBI Guy 11/15/2012

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I vouch for this method. It real­ly is sur­pris­ing­ly effec­tive.

Scott Adams Blog: The Go-Back Pre­ven­tion Mem­o­ry Trick 11/19/2012

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I don’t know much about Mark Cuban, but I almost always find his analy­ses insight­ful.

Face­book Needs To Accept That It’s Just A Time Waster

Don’t mess with what works.

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I am so grate­ful that we have a sys­tem of checks and bal­ances in built in to the Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment. 

Court Sides with Bible Pub­lish­er Chal­leng­ing Abor­tion Pill Man­date

Court Sides with Bible Pub­lish­er Chal­leng­ing Abor­tion Pill Man­date. Novem­ber 18, 2012 | The Gospel Coali­tion Blog. “For the gov­ern­ment to say that a Bible pub­lish­er is not reli­gious is star­tling.”… Re…

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Inter­est­ing. This is a com­pli­cat­ed ques­tion to inves­ti­gate — I look for­ward to see­ing more research.

Freako­nom­ics » What Hap­pens When You Get Rid of Affir­ma­tive Action?

Propo­si­tion 209 banned using racial pref­er­ences in admis­sions at Cal­i­for­ni­a’s pub­lic col­leges. We ana­lyze unique data for all appli­cants and enrollees with­in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia (UC) sys­tem b…

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What he said.

Did Jesus Turn Water into Wine or Grape Juice?

The issue of alco­hol and the Chris­t­ian is an incred­i­bly volatile sub­ject caus­ing great divi­sion and stern judg­ments on both sides. I have been deeply affect­ed by this issue myself, as I have many f.…..

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While I am glad things are (appar­ent­ly) bet­ter than we had believed, I am agog that NO ONE NOTICED. Wow.

Ghana “fact” of the day

Two years ago Ghana’s sta­tis­ti­cal ser­vice announced it was revis­ing its GDP esti­mates upwards by over 60%, sug­gest­ing that in the pre­vi­ous esti­mates about US$13bn worth’s of eco­nom­ic ac…

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That there is a strong cor­re­la­tion makes intu­itive sense to me, although I would not have pegged it as the strongest pre­dic­tor.

Sen­tences to pon­der

Stun­ning­ly, the post­pone­ment of mar­riage and par­ent­ing — the fac­tors that shrink the birth rate — is the very best pre­dic­tor of a person’s pol­i­tics in the Unit­ed States, over even income and edu­cat.…..

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So much truth in just three pan­els…

Dil­bert com­ic strip for 11/22/2012 from the offi­cial Dil­bert com­ic strips archive.

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