The article below has only recently been brought to my attention. It claims that Catholics are less creative. I guess Leonardo, Titian, Tintoretto, Canaletto, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Puccini etc don’t count. The claim is too silly for me to look at the article in detail so I will content myself with making one general point: There [...]

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I put up on my GREENIE WATCH blog writings by both mainstream skeptics (who believe that a greenhouse effect exists but is trivial) and ultra skeptics who think that no such effect exists at all. And one of the reasons for that is that the greenhouse effect is a complete red herring. It does not [...]

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Finally, capitalism has its own hip movement!  After languishing in the shadow of “flash mobs” and Occupy Wall Street, we read this in USA Today in an article entitled “‘Cash mobs’ descend on small businesses, snap up merchandise”: It’s a mob scene at some mom-and-pop retailers across the country. Organized groups of do-gooders — “cash mobs,” modeled [...]

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Stir Crazy is one of those films that everyone has seen. It gets on TV nearly as often as Animal House or the original version of The Blues Brothers. Stir Crazy had Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in the major roles. The plot line was a bit thin, but very funny. IMDB has this to [...]

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