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Maybe it's a big fried egg, from a big chicken, fried in a big pan? I'm trying to stop overthinking things and I feel that this is a good start.

I confess to having lost track of exactly when Easter is this year myself. In the past year we have changed to a non-liturgical church, so we have missed the steady weekly countdown through Lent. I also decided not to give up beer for Lent this year, because it was going to come awfully soon after D...

Sure, I get that there are other factors to keep agents honest even if their commissions tempt them otherwise. There are lots of professions whose practitioners could harm the public—doctors and police, for example. We trust professional oversight, training, and culture to keep them working for the ...

"incentive to arrange a higher price"? Not sure what you mean here. If your wife had somehow negotiated a $40K lower closing price instead of only $20K, that would have been $600 less money in her commission than she ended up getting. If instead she had impressed that lady by wangling blinds and a ...

It seems perverse that an agent for the buyer should have an incentive to arrange a higher price. I can't think of an easy way to avoid this, though. Flat fees for buyers' agents don't seem fair because the value to the client of the buying agent's service probably does scale with the purchase price...

It might take a very otherworldly religion to remain entirely aloof from state power, but some religions have been more theocratic than others. Brigham Young's Utah regime has got to be have been on one end of the spectrum. Orthodox Christianity has also been toward that end, I think. The Eastern Ch...

I’m not sure anyone ever wants to told that they’re brave. Being told that you were brave, in that awful past situation that is now safely over—that might be okay, although heroes probably tire of it. Being told that you currently are being brave is being reminded of how much you have about which to...

What is a "true prophet" or "reasonably clever fraud"? Are they actually mutually exclusive categories such that you can be one or the other but you can't possibly be both? It does seem to me that to being either a "true prophet" or a "reasonably clever fraud" requires a person to be pretty creativ...

No, see, we're not quoting Peterson. These are just unpublished notes for our upcoming books.

Look at her hands. Look at those window panes. This is a deepfake.

It's the actual face of the real Goldilocks, obviously, but she's been photoshopped into an A.I. scene.

See how hard it is these days, to demonstrate reliable evidence for anything?