Sunday, August 16, 2026
It is very hard for a man to defend anything of which he is entirely convinced. Other paradoxes and meaty stuff.
Tipsy Teetotaler ن
What happens when you give a distractible autodidact a blog to play with?
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Chat GPT confesses wrongdoing
Criminologist Paul Heaton used the ubiquitous Reid technique to get a false confession from Chat GPT. Also, I'm a WNBA fanboy.
Nagasaki plus 81 years
Today is the 81st anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki. Nagasaki was the most Christian city in Japan.
Saturday 8/8/26
Should we carry a little coal to Newcastle?
Farewell, Golden Rule; G’bye, Beatitudes
"We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power."
Onus probandi, nihil obstat, imprimatur – Tipsy goes all Latin
Sometimes, Latin adds a little brevity and sizzle.
The Noise Everywhere: Fauci, Punditry, and the Collapse of Public Authority
It seems we're on our own, with too few reliable sources.
Sophie’s Choice
Sanity returns from exile [Indiana Fever s Sophie] Cunningham doesn’t hate trans people, she said, but “I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.” Kat Rosenfield. There was a half-hearted Continue reading Sophie s Choice
Somehow waiting for Something
Wherein I (among other things) take a stab at defining Paul Kingsnorth's "strange indefinable sense that we are all somehow waiting for something."
Bigger on the inside
Nobody stays in the Faith for the same reasons they converted. The Church is bigger on the inside.