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The Life and Death of a Blog: Socialism Wins Again
by Patrick M. Dixon In researching and writing an article yesterday on the latest Star Trek film I stumbled across a blog, hosted by WordPress.com. The web address seemed to make clear the intent of its founder: socialismdoesnotwork.wordpress.com (SDNW). This short-lived but spirited website was primarily concerned with warning Americans of the danger posed by […]
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Is Star Trek enterprising?
May 18, 2013
by Patrick M. Dixon Star Trek: Into Darkness is released in cinemas this weekend and the resulting spike in Google searches on the subject perhaps warrants some consideration of the question of whether this franchise presents anything more than a highly marketable product. The pictures embedded in this article will give some indication as to […]
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Pressing Ahead: Selecting Stones at Year 2
May 1, 2013
The scientific editors of Selecting Stones are all exhausted as of late. We’ve been putting in long hours as wage-laborers, and well, y’all know how that goes! So, this year on May 1, we must confess that we simply don’t have the energy at the moment to make as grandiose of a statement as we […]
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The Reality of the Baltimore Free School: An Exercise in Lazy Phony Leftism
April 29, 2013
by Frank W. Strauch, Ansgar Magnus, and Bruno Fournier There exists in Baltimore City a project called the Baltimore Free School. In a nutshell, the idea is to set up a non-traditional and somewhat informal school where volunteers teach courses on whatever it is that they may have special knowledge about, and anyone remotely interested […]
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Another Day, Another Dollar, Another Victory for the War on Terror
April 21, 2013
by Phil Ingram As the manhunt for the FBI’s most wanted criminal finally came to an end Friday evening, the free press inevitably began asking questions – not really in order to get to the bottom of things (sadly this has increasingly become the duty and responsibility of Twitter) – but to remind us that […]
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Boston Marathon Bombings raise Juan Cole Threat Level to High
April 15, 2013
Because of the two bombings this afternoon at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, we are working under the assumption that Prof. Juan R. I. Cole is more likely than usual to make stupid statements about terrorism, Osama Bin Ladin, and Timothy McVeigh within the next 24 to 48 hours. For this reason, the […]
Posted in: Notes
The World’s Richest Hindu Gurus: 2013
March 29, 2013
A Special Investigative Report by Selecting Stones by Liangyi Chen and Phil Ingram In the general atmosphere of this prevailing reign of stupidity itself that we are now witnessing everywhere around us on a universal scale, the clouds of mysticism have once again surrounded all phenomena of art and culture with a poetic color and […]
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May 19, 2013
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