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Get In, Losers, We’re Going to Moorish Spain
So, we’ll talk more about this later, but I just wanted to let you know that Louis L’Amour’s The Walking Drum is on sale for Kindle until midnight tonight, and I’d like to…
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My True Crime Spree (Books! We’re talking about books)
Look, when I set a goal of reading 52 books this year, I sincerely meant to read mostly meaty, intellectual, improving books. My Kindle is full of books on nearly every science, history,…
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Ventures in the Sun: A Photo Essay
Yeah, I’ve been gone for a good bit. I can explain. Politics, the pandemic, and health crises sapped my will to write. Then the sun came out. (And there were so. many. volcanoes.)…
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An Open Letter About Yet Another Egregiously Bad Autism Study
My friend Andrew Hutsell, whom many of you may remember from their fantastic takedown of Hu et al’s atrocious paper on moral consistency in autistic folks, is taking on another terrible study. This…
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Interesting Times: America’s Ultimate Sore Loser Attempts a Coup and Sparks a Backlash
“May you live in interesting times” is a curse for good reason. These are interesting times for America. I’m sure most of us would prefer to be living in much less interesting times,…
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes: Excellent Historizzzz…
You know how sometimes you’re kinda sad when finishing a book, because despite having approximately 4,568,892,626,942 other books you need to read, none of them will be quite like this book? Yeah, I…
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Moral Consistency Is Not An Autistic Deficit : A Letter to Hu et al
Some researchers need to be reading books by neurologist Oliver Sacks. One of the greatest joys in reading about the neurological disorders he treated, including autism, was his delight in all the myriad…
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Yeah. Actually. We Won
My darlings, we did it. We ousted a sitting president. I know it may not feel much like victory. The Senate may remain in Republican hands. Republicans gained seats in the House. We…
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Pirate Women: Badass Buccaneers Since the Dawn of Piracy
Why shouldn’t women be singing “A pirate’s life for me!” right alongside the men? Laura Sook Duncombe’s exquisite Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled The Seven Seas certainly proves that…
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Falwell Has Fallen. Liberty University, Alas, Has Not
The conservative Christian education world is experiencing one hell of a circus this week. Its principal star, now-former Liberty University President and all-around terrible human being Jerry Falwell Jr., fell right off the…