Fear mongering and the War on Drugs

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The University of the Internet explained

17 Jan 2015 2 Comments

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Is Hollywood On A Dystopian Movie Binge? | FiveThirtyEight

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It is also cheaper to make disutopian films.

Via http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/is-hollywood-on-a-dystopian-movie-binge/

The Emerging Marriage Majority — The Monkey Cage

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Most consumers want GMO labels; but 80% also want to label food with DNA

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An honest alternative medicine

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HL Mencken on the dissolute nature of artists

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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading. - H. L. Mencken

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Deirdre McCloskey on broad participation in decision-making

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The growing libertarian vote in the USA

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Thatcher on Scottish independence

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Bollywood vs. Bin Laden: Why radical Islam fears pop culture

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UK’s Sky News Loses It After Charlie Hebdo Writer Holds Up Mohammed Cover On-Air | National Review Online

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UK’s Sky News Loses It After Charlie Hebdo Writer Holds Up Mohammed Cover On-Air | National Review Online.

Milton Friedman – Case Against Equal Pay for Equal WorkY

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Academics push to revive forgotten words – World – NZ Herald News

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Caterwaul: A shrill howling or wailing noise.

Concinnity: The skillful and harmonious arrangement or fitting together of the different parts of something.

Flapdoodle: Nonsense.

Knavery: A roguish or mischievous act.

Melange: A mixture of different things.

Obambulate: To walk about.

Opsimath: A person who begins to learn or study only late in life.

Philistine: A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them.

Rapscallion: A mischievous person.

April Fools’ Day was better than Christmas for the young rapscallion.

Subtopia: Monotonous urban sprawl of standardised buildings.

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Mark Twain on persuasion

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