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

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.

We go apeshit at the mention of "free stuff". "No" doesn't necessarily mean "no" when we're horny. You will shop around for cheap cigarettes, but not for an expensive suit. Economics is dead wrong. And many other interesting findings.