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published Nov 14, 2008, last modified Dec 30, 2022

Many busibodies want (the government) to punish those who don't wear seatbelts, those who smoke pot, those who have guns, those who dress with saggy pants, those who don't pay taxes. These busibodies are wrong; they are perverse; they are immoral.

To the extent this phrase suggests a society in which all are governed by neutral rules that are objectively applied by judges, there is no such thing.

How racism was manufactured and (is still being) used to keep poor people powerless and powerful interests in power.

This driver is so stupid, it isn't even funny anymore. Except it's hilarious.

For the past two hundred years, no person claiming to be educated could have possibly entertained the idea that we are here due to "intelligent design". A ten-minute blitzglance into elementary biology makes that fact painfully obvious to evolution denialists.

A few years ago, the inimitable Carl Sagan developed a set of "rules of thumb" to separate truth from crap. Here they are.

Remember playing with marbles when you were a kid? Well, here's how marbles are made, both the small ones and the big ones.