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The Sam Harris v. Noam Chomsky v. George Monbiot THREE-WAY Cage Match (and the post-match analysis by The Falls Society that the American people have been BEGGING for)

The following conversation took place between esteemed members of The Falls Society DP, The Immortal Goon, Q Musing, and Process.  In this conversation we reference three articles.  The first article is an interview of atheist(I guess…?) Sam Harris by Salon.  The second article is a published correspondence between Sam Harris and notable political commentator(read: DANGEROUS SOCIALIST) Noam Chomsky.  The third article is a…

The Culvert by C.V.

If you were fortunate enough to have at least one stable, loving and selfless parent, consider yourself fortunate. This person has taught you a lot of things, none of which are more important than wiping your own ass.   Being bipedal animals we have been blessed with buttocks and these rotund muscles require  quite a sophisticated maintenance procedure; one that…

Colonizing the Solar System and the Cosmic Manifest Destiny

I was taking a bath and perusing my Twitter feed earlier today, as the unemployed geologist is wont to do, when I came across an interesting argument.  Essentially, this person, a woman who blogs for Scientific American, was claiming that the calls for colonization of Mars are inspired by the same white privilege that drove the colonization of the Americas…